Principal Solution Architect | A-Team - Cloud Solutions Architects

Oracle’s A-Team is an elite team within Oracle Product Development is seeking a highly energetic Solution Architect to join our team. 

We are seeking an exceptional technical leader with extraordinary attention to detail. The ideal candidate will be excited about staying at the forefront of technology trends, applying a multi-disciplinary approach, actively participating in coding tasks, and possessing an in-depth understanding of new cloud technologies and a good understanding of machine learning frameworks.

A successful applicant will have a thorough understanding of communication and be able to effectively communicate with upper management, customers, and the members of the team knowing that the audience will range from those who have a very limited understanding of technology to those who are on the world forefront of Cloud ecosystems. 

The Solution Architect must have communication skills (both written and verbal) with the ability to effectively communicate with customers, succinctly articulate business impacts, translate technical information into layperson and business terms, concisely ‘storyboard' complex problems, solutions, and approaches in a manner appropriate for executives, develop frameworks, templates, and high-quality pragmatic deliverables that can be carried forth and executed by project teams, and articulate and demonstrate gaps in our products based on real-world customer use cases. 

He or she has problem-solving skills with the ability to develop and analyze options/hypotheses objectively, applies industry-leading practices, and facilitates negotiations/discussions involving groups of diverse stakeholders. 

We are part of Oracle Cloud Product Development Group helping Oracle's top customers and helping Oracle's Engineering teams with solution architecture. The position entails a high level of internal and external visibility with senior management. It involves contributing to and leading multidisciplinary projects focused on architecting, designing, and prototyping complex cloud solutions that involve Oracle Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a service (IaaS).

The primary focus of this role will be using modern engineering practices to architect and build distributed, reliable, maintainable cloud-based solutions. Broad knowledge of security, networking, CICD, and cloud native technologies is required, any Machine Learning or SaaS knowledge is highly desirable. The role will provide global exposure both in terms of customers and internal Oracle teams. 

Typical Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Design complex and innovative technical solutions leveraging Oracle Cloud offerings to address critical business requirements of our customers. Participate in highly technical discussions. 
• Manages competing, quickly changing priorities effectively and handle input from many internal and external collaborators and stakeholders. 
• Closely collaborate with high calibre peers and a variety of teams and groups in a highly dynamic environment – Developers, Product Managers, Senior Leaders, Pre-Sales, Consulting, Documentation, QA, among others 
• Identify recurring patterns and solutions and generalise these for broader re-use across the entire ecosystem – Oracle, Partners, and Customers. 
• Identify common pain points in Oracle products and Solutions and propose alternatives to improve them. 
• Code tools, prototypes, demos, and re-usable assets aimed at Product Development, Pre-sales teams, and post-sales teams. 
• Establish relationships and feedback channels into product management and product engineering ultimately resulting in product improvements and innovations. 

Desired Qualifications, Skills, and Experience:

• Highly motivated, self-starter with an eagerness to learn and a strong ambition to adapt to new technologies and methodologies.
• Experience in developing/operating/managing Enterprise SaaS offerings such as Oracle SaaS, Salesforce, Workday or even non-enterprise SaaS.
• Hands-on experience working with at least one of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar cloud providers.
• Solid understanding of how to configure, deploy, manage, and maintain large cloud-hosted systems, including auto-scaling, container management, monitoring, automation, scripting, troubleshooting and disaster recovery.
• Fluency in one or more scripting languages such as Python or Golang.
• Exceptional analytical and critical reasoning skills capable of flexible and lateral thinking
• You will have the ability to actively lead technical discussions with customers, partners, and other Oracle engineering teams. 
• You should have an understanding of Open source and non-Oracle produ