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Job Description:
Role Summary
We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Cloud & Oracle Architect to join our Cloud Services team and play a key role in supporting our continued growth plans. These plans aim to solidify our position as a leading global Services partner across AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Cloud & Oracle Architects are expected to routinely act as the lead on large-scale, complex projects and provide mentoring to fellow consultants. They provide post-sales technical consultancy, undertake delivery and implementation engagements, as well as supporting pre-sales qualification and design. A typical Cloud & Oracle Architect will have five or more years of experience in a technical cloud consulting role, with proven expertise in delivering Oracle enterprise solutions or similar Cloud vendors alongside multi-cloud architectures.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Working in close collaboration with the local (in-country) Cloud sales and technical team, along with the local Regional Service Centre, the core responsibilities of the role include, but not limited to, the following:
Project Delivery
- Undertake individual consultancy assignments or work within a project team analyzing customer requirements, gathering and interpreting data, and recommending solutions.
- Lead the assessment, design, and implementation of cloud and Oracle-based solutions (OCI, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Apps, Exadata, multicloud integrations).
- Ensure delivery is consistent, high-quality, and aligned with vendor best practices.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks to minimize exposure to commercial loss.
- Leverage vendor programs (e.g., Oracle Cloud Lift, Oracle Migration Services).
- Produce and update technical documentation as required.
- Ensure smooth handover to support and managed services teams.
- Provide technical escalation and advisory support for both internal and external customers.
- Lead and present in customer workshops and technical opportunity sessions.
Pre-Sales, Scoping, and Services Development
- Lead customer workshops and scoping calls to capture business and technical requirements.
- Author and review Statements of Work and solution designs.
- Maintain strong awareness of internal SMEs and leverage their expertise.
- Identify opportunities to upsell Ingram Micro services and Oracle/Cloud add-ons.
- Support development of regional cloud service propositions, with a particular focus on Oracle workloads (databases, ERP, middleware).
- Collaborate with thought leaders to identify new growth areas and develop Go-To-Market strategies.
Personal Skills Development
- Actively contribute to the regional Cloud & Oracle technical community.
- Build strong relationships with channel partners and internal technical teams.
- Keep up-to-date with current and future cloud and Oracle technologies (OCI, Autonomous DB, Oracle Analytics, multicloud integrations).
- Maintain vendor certifications across Oracle and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, OCI).
- Continuously enhance consultative and solution-selling skills
Qualifications and Experience
An AWS Technical Consultant should also have the following qualifications and experience:
Preferred Qualifications
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional Certification (or equivalent Oracle certification).
- AWS or Azure Professional/Specialty Certification (preferred).
Expected Experience (Design, Deployment and Transformation)
- 3+ years in complex Oracle workloads (databases, ERP, middleware) and cloud migration.
- Oracle Database migration and modernization (on-prem to OCI, Exadata Cloud Service, Autonomous DB).
- Oracle Fusion Applications integration and customization.
- Hybrid and multicloud networking (OCI <-> AWS/Azure/VMware).
- DevOps and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Oracle DevOps).
- Monitoring/Observability (Oracle Cloud Observability & Management, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor).
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OKE, OpenShift).
- Strong knowledge of licensing optimization (Oracle and AWS/Azure licensing programs)
Knowledge, Skills, and Characteristics
- Five or more years in Cloud technical consulting and solution architecture roles.
- Excellent communicator, both verbal and written (local language and English).
- Strong leadership, influence, and diplomacy in managing stakeholders.
- Ability to manage technical teams on large-scale transformation projects.
- Network effectively with industry peers and enterprise customers.
- Industry-recognized expertise in Oracle or other cloud vendor solutions.
- Flexible, customer-focused, and willing to go the extra mile.
- Strong problem-solving skills beyond area of specialization.
- Ability and willingness to travel.
English language proficiency required.
Goals are provided to the incumbent in form of desired results. Determines and develops approach to solve functional area related issues.
Possess the strongest of skills acquired through advanced training, study and experience. Four year college degree (or additional relevant experience in a related field). Minimum 8 years functional experience including a minimum of 5 years position specific experience.
*This is not a complete listing of the job duties. It’s a representation of the things you will be doing, and you may not perform all of these duties.
