The goal of the Cloud Architect is to be front and centre in our customer’s transformation to a cloud-based architecture.

You will achieve this by:

• Engage with customers to understand their business and technical requirements
• Identify customer workloads to move to the Oracle Cloud Platform
• Design a technical Oracle Cloud architecture for these workloads
• Develop a migration approach to lift and shift workloads
• Present a compelling case for Oracle’s Cloud offerings  

Provide Thought Leadership & Innovation

• Develop Oracle Cloud specific solutions & content to support sales engagements
• Document and share Cloud best practise within the Oracle ecosystem
• Participate in Industry marketing events as Oracle Cloud Evangelists
• Promote Oracle Cloud solutions with Oracle Partners

Roles & Responsibilities

• Customer facing role representing Oracle’s Cloud Platform solutions including iPaas, aPaas, Iaas, Security, ioT & Big Data.
• To understand the customers’ applications and technical architecture and to be able to identify suitable workloads to move to the Oracle Cloud Platform
• Develop a technical and security architecture and business feasibility proposal for moving identified workloads to the Oracle Cloud Platform
• Present technical and business value discussions of the Oracle Cloud Platform offerings to senior customer executives
• Lead the design of the technical architecture for proposed solutions including supporting RFx bid responses and proof-of-concepts and to collaborate closely with Oracle SC Specialists, CSM’s & Partners to develop end to end solutions
• Document and share best practise within the Oracle ecosystem
• Maintain extensive knowledge of Oracle’s Cloud Platform products, Cloud operations, privacy and security frameworks, commercial frameworks, roadmaps, competitors’ products and emerging cloud computing technologies.  

Detailed Description and Job Requirements

Provides direction and specialist knowledge in applying the technology/application to client business. Facilitation of customer product/application understanding through presentations demonstrations and benchmarks; provision of support throughout the sell.

As a Cloud Architect you will be responsible as the expert for formulating and leading presales technical / functional support activity to prospective clients and customers while ensuring customer satisfaction. Develops and delivers outstanding Oracle presentations and demonstrations. Leads any and all aspects of the technical sales process. Advises internal and external clients on overall architect solutions.

Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialisation. Ability to implement the most advanced product features. Thorough knowledge of system and application design. In depth knowledge of competitors. Demonstrated project management skills. Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills: needs analysis, positioning, business justification, closing techniques. Ability to persuade others through presentations, demonstrations, and written communication. Ability to travel as needed. A/BS degree or equivalent, advanced degree highly desirable.