Master Principal Architect, Data Platform - FSI-NY/NJ

Data Platform Cloud Architect – Financial Services Industry (FSI)

Oracle

As the provider of the world's most complete, open, and integrated cloud applications and platform services, Oracle is dedicated to helping organizations innovate, transform, and lead in the digital economy. Oracle's Data Platform portfolio delivers industry-leading database, analytics, AI, and data management solutions that enable customers to modernize mission-critical workloads, unlock business insights, and accelerate innovation.

Financial institutions worldwide rely on Oracle to power their most critical systems, manage risk, improve customer experiences, and meet evolving regulatory requirements.

Position Overview

Oracle is seeking a highly accomplished Data Platform Cloud Architect to join our North America Cloud Engineering organization, focused on the Financial Services Industry (FSI). This strategic presales role combines deep technical expertise, industry knowledge, and executive engagement skills to help customers modernize their data estates and accelerate business transformation using Oracle's Data Platform portfolio.

The successful candidate will serve as a trusted advisor to customers, sales teams, and Oracle leadership while driving strategic opportunities from discovery through technical win and customer adoption. This individual will work directly with executive stakeholders, architects, and line-of-business leaders to design innovative solutions that address critical business challenges and deliver measurable business value.

As a recognized technical leader, the Data Platform Cloud Architect will influence customer technology strategy, support large and complex sales opportunities, and help shape Oracle's go-to-market approach within the Financial Services Industry.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Partner with sales teams to identify, qualify, and advance strategic opportunities involving Oracle's Data Platform portfolio.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs, Chief Data Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, enterprise architects, and business leaders within financial services organizations.
• Lead technical discovery sessions to understand customer business objectives, challenges, architecture, and transformation initiatives.
• Architect and present compelling business and technical solutions leveraging Oracle's data, analytics, AI, and cloud technologies.
• Develop executive-level presentations, solution strategies, business value assessments, and technical proposals that clearly articulate Oracle's differentiation.
• Serve as the technical lead for strategic pursuits, coordinating cross-functional Oracle resources to support complex customer engagements.
• Demonstrate how Oracle's Data Platform portfolio can help customers modernize legacy environments, improve operational efficiency, enhance governance, and accelerate innovation.
• Design enterprise-scale architectures spanning databases, analytics, AI, data integration, governance, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.
• Lead customer workshops, architecture reviews, proof-of-concepts, and technical validation activities.
• Provide industry expertise and thought leadership around financial services trends, regulatory requirements, risk management, fraud detection, customer analytics, and AI-driven innovation.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, and Consulting teams to ensure successful customer outcomes.
• Contribute market intelligence, competitive insights, and customer feedback to help shape Oracle's product and solution strategy.
• Mentor and guide less experienced solution engineers and architects while fostering technical excellence across the organization.

Year One Critical Success Factors

• Establish credibility as a trusted technical advisor with strategic financial services customers.
• Develop strong partnerships with sales leadership, cloud engineering teams, product management, and customer success organizations.
• Demonstrate mastery of Oracle's Dat