Oracle Business Architect NAA (North American Applications)

As a Business Architect, you will support Oracle North American Application Sales to inspire business transformation by aligning an organization's industry-specific strategic objectives with its operating model, process and capabilities.  Business Architects help Oracle clients visualize their journey from where they are today to what is possible in the future.  Business Architects help Oracle clients understand the connections and complexities that exist both within an organization, and within an organization's surrounding ecosystem of suppliers, partners and providers. They work to disassemble opportunities for transformation into phased, value-based recommendations. Business Architects possess the ability to synthesize information from multiple sources, connect this to organizational strategy and frame it in simple, compelling ways. Key results include architecture artifacts that link an organization’s strategic objectives with its operating model, process and capabilities. 

Business Architects engage with Oracle’s most strategic clients to provide thought leadership, and provide recommendations on process, capability, and technology changes to enable the realization of client strategy.  This is accomplished by aligning the strategic objectives of clients with actionable roadmaps for the adoption of new Oracle business applications and technology solutions.  Business Architects are trusted advisors, and engage, collaborate and partner with internal senior leaders, solution engineering, sales and development, to complete long and short term account strategies.  They are also expected to produce consistent and high quality architectural results to clients using Oracle’s Architecture Framework.  The Business Architect must exude strong communication skills, interpersonal skills, and executive presence.  Lastly, it is expected that the Business Architect invests heavily in corporate citizenship and is a role model for contributing to architecture and non-architecture Oracle communities.

The ideal candidate must be dynamic, passionate, self-motivated, confident in working with senior leaders and comfortable in a matrix organization. They should have Significant C-level presentation expertise.  They need to be able to gain the trust and confidence of the communities they serve, be able to get results, and truly make a difference to those communities. 

To be successful in the role, you will demonstrate:

• Customer focus, seeking to understand future markets and customer needs and actively considering alternative business models to meet those as well as market needs.
• Ability to lead, influence, collaborate and communicate with internal & external senior collaborators.
• Depth of experience in leading change and organizational innovation.
• Expert level business insight and understanding of customer business lifecycles and industry specific operating models.
• Expert level breadth in business application solutions and transformational technologies.
• Background in business process design and consulting.
• Ability to monitor, measure and implement change as required to ensure achievement of goals against agreed upon objectives, growth expectations and win rate.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in architect or senior engineering roles with enterprise-scale design responsibilities. 
• Large enterprise experience in a matrixed environment.
• Strategic and outcome-based approach.
• Knowledge of architectural approaches.
• Significant experience in cloud solutions, preferably Oracle Cloud solutions.
• Extensive background in working with business partners.
• Must excel working in team-oriented roles that rely on ability to collaborate with others.
• Proven presentation, communication and facilitation skills with a senior audience.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve aggressive goals and deliver on commitments.

Competencies to be evaluated during the candidate selection process:

• Managing Complexity:  Making sense of complex, high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Managing Ambiguity:  Operating effectively even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
• Strategic Approach:  Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Decision Quality:  Making good and timely decision that keep the organization moving forward.
• Committed: taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency!! high energy and enthusiasm!!
• Drives Results: consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Plan and Align: Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Ensures Accountability:  Holdin