Architect, OCI Chief Technical Architect Office

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation of hyperscale cloud services. As an Architect in Chief Technical Architect Office, you will define and drive architectural direction for core cloud services that operate at global scale. This role requires deep distributed systems expertise, strong design judgment, and the ability to influence engineering execution across multiple teams.

You will work directly with senior engineering leadership (VPs, SVPs & EVPs), serving as a trusted technical advisor on system design, platform evolution, and long-term strategy. Your work will enable OCI to deliver highly reliable, scalable, secure, and performant cloud services used across internal teams and customer workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end cloud services, focusing on reliability, scalability, performance, security, and global availability.
• Define core architectural patterns and frameworks across control plane, data plane, observability, and operational safety.
• Lead multi-team engineering initiatives, influencing hundreds of engineers across OCI platform groups.
• Ensure operational and performance excellence for services running at hyperscale.
• Drive cross-functional technical alignment with Product, SRE, Security, and partner engineering teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, raising engineering quality and architectural rigor.
• Shape long-term platform and cloud strategy, contributing to OCI’s next-generation cloud vision.

Candidate Profile

• Extensive experience architecting, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior-level engineering and product leaders.
• Strong systems design skills with the ability to simplify complexity and drive architectural clarity.
• Deep understanding of reliability engineering, performance optimization, multitenancy, and cloud service design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong executive presence.
• Experience driving large, cross-organizational engineering initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of software engineering experience with increasing scope and ownership.
• Demonstrated experience architecting large-scale distributed systems (preferably in cloud infrastructure).
• Strong experience with messaging, streaming, or event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on background building high-performance services, including API design, control-plane development, and data-plane implementation.
• Proven ability to lead complex, multi-team engineering initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to influence executive stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in hyperscaler or large-scale cloud environments (Oracle, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Background leading engineering organizations of 100+ people (direct or matrixed).
• Deep understanding of cloud security, DevOps, SRE, observability, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Prior ownership of services used by internal/external developers across a cloud platform.

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $136,600 to $338,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life i