Oracle is at the forefront of the digital revolution. We are empowering nearly half a million businesses across the globe to turn untapped potential into real business value. Would you like to join us in connecting the biggest enterprises of today, with the tools to compete in the digital economy of tomorrow?
We have exciting new opportunities in expanding Oracle’s cloud business. So, if you are passionate, entrepreneurial, innovative, consultative, value-focused, and want to have fun whilst you work, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
The role will be delivered remotely from your home and, while there may be some visits to an office or customer premises. As nearly all your daily interactions will be on Zoom, you will need a good internet connection. You have the opportunity to manage your own time and work hours can have a degree of flexibility.
This CTO Data Platform Transformation role comprises a combination of both technical and soft skills. If you have strong all-round technical skills, the ability to engage with people, can build trusted relationships, communicate ideas, and build consensus, then you are just the kind of person we are looking for.
Your contribution will be pivotal in helping customers move their on-premises workloads to Oracle Cloud. You will engage with customers to advise and support them on their journey to Oracle cloud - with a focus on database estates, large-scale database consolidation and applications with a database component. By engaging with customers to understand their current database estate, you will help the customer build a business case and plan their migration to OCI.
Your ability to architect solutions that address a broad range of cloud capabilities and non-functional requirements, such as security, network, performance, resilience, service management and operations is essential to the role.
Leadership is a key requirement of this role. You will be expected to provide innovative thought leadership in cloud solutions and architecture.
Complex solutions also require collaboration across multiple Oracle product teams, and you will bring leadership and a keen focus on a positive customer outcome in finding the right solution for the customer in collaboration with a wide array of product teams.
Driving customer success, through high-quality architectural solutions, is the very cornerstone of our ambitions. You will be instrumental in the customer adoption of your solutions and, as a result, building long-standing business and IT value for the customer.
At Oracle, you will enjoy a high degree of responsibility and autonomy. The rewards for your contribution include a compensation and benefits package, and a continuous training program in a structured environment, that are world-class.
We always aim to make Oracle a fun and rewarding place to work, and you will be joining a community of hundreds of like-minded architects who are always very keen to support and help each other.
What You’ll BringYour enthusiasm, knowledge, and passion for customer success will help us become the number one cloud company in the world.
Architectural skills and experience are also clearly important aspects to this role. These include;
- the ability to quickly understand existing on-premises customer systems and applications and map those to cloud architectures and solutions- a good general understanding of cloud architecture and hybrid on-premise/cloud designs- strong architectural understanding of all technical aspects of a cloud solution including networking, security, resilience and connectivity- excellent communication and presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking across all levels of management (. IT management, Architects, administrators and executives)- strong collaboration skills and the ability to build virtual teams to deliver broad-based architecture deliverables- Some experience in engaging and influencing senior leaders would he highly desirable
In addition, a number of technical skills will also be needed within this role and the more of these you have, the better you will fit the role. We group skills into the two areas of focus and if you have most of the skills in any one group, then you may be the right person for us !
Database Consolidation Migration- experience of working as an architect on large-scale application and database consolidations or migrations- experience of gathering information about and analysing large application and database estates - ability to build a complex migration strategy involving many hundreds of target systems- knowledge and experience of a number of migration approaches and tools- experience of consolidating large numbers of Oracle databases to a consolidated DBaaSDatabase Application Migration- every customer solution will require a database, and so a good understanding of database and related technologies will be required. Oracle database experience is essential, but strong knowledge of other databases will also be helpful- hands-on experience of cloud deployments. While any cloud experience will be considered, previous experience of OCI would be highly beneficial- it is expected that every successful candidate will have basic developer skills and be fluent in at least one back-end programming language -. Java, Python etc. - as well as having a working knowledge of SQL - experience of deploying or managing large custom applications on Oracle database is highly desirable.
Career Level - IC6
- Customer Engagement Lead: lead customer engagements from round the world, focusing on customer success in the cloud
- Liaise with product management and business development teams to co-ordinate engagements and to align activities
- Identify key customer solution requirements and build a list of key solution requirements
- Provide a weekly updated tracker of leading engagements (including regional engagements)
- Sales Support: provide solution support to the sales team on customer engagement
- GoToMarket Development: design and build assets for the purpose of field enablement on the topic of Data Platform Transformation
- Customer Advocate, development feedback: directly work with the relevant development and PM teams on product strategy and product enhancements
- Estate discovery and analysis: work with strategic customers in building a unique view on their on-premise estate and analyse to model and design their cloud-based, transformed data-platform