SAP Solution Architect at Oracle (Austin, TX)

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team is looking for Solutions Architects (SAs). The ideal candidate will possess deep technical skills in software architecture in SAP, cloud computing, as well as customer facing skills. The ideal candidate will also have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of enterprise customers.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is the next generation cloud service built from grounds up for the most demanding application requirements with diverse performance, reliability, and governance requirements for a variety of customer use cases. We've focused on security, reliability, scalability and flexibility to support existing and future enterprise level large and complex deployments while beating industry performance and pricing standards. We are rapidly expanding our footprint and continuously building innovative solutions.

Do you want to be part of a highly technical team helping to establish Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as the leading cloud computing platform for enterprises? Are you passionate about helping customers understand application architectures and integration approaches?

As a Solutions Architect, you will work closely with OCI product teams and partner with other product teams across Oracle to craft highly scalable, flexible, resilient and cost-effective cloud architectures that address customer business problems and accelerate the adoption of OCI services. You will continuously experiment on our platform, building, deploying and migrating application solutions and use cases our customers currently use or plan to use and create most optimal architectures and device best practices. As a trusted customer advocate, the solutions architect will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of large-scale computing solutions and enjoys keeping the existing technical skills sharp and developing new ones.

You will have the opportunity to help shape the next generation of cloud computing and influence the adoption and usage patterns among enterprise and web-scale customers. You should have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, create technical definition around customer objectives in complex situations, develop solution strategies, motivate and mobilize resources, and deliver results.

Location: Austin (TX), but will consider remote, US based candidate for right employee  

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

·         Participate in deep architectural discussions with customers, partners and Oracle field personnel to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.

·         Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the field and internal teams.

·         Author and contribute to customer-facing publications such as Solution Architectures, whitepapers, Design Guides, handbooks, short videos and presentations.

·         Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates

·         Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams and support

SAP QUALIFICATIONS

We are seeking a Senior/Principal level Solution Architect with very strong SAP skills. Areas to include:

• SAP NetWeaver Application Components, e.g. ECC - (ABAP/Java)

• SAP Business Objects BI Suite (SBOB)

• SAP Hybris

• Linux

• Oracle DB

• Cloud (Public/Private)

• Hypervisors

• Network

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

·         Strong verbal and written communications skills. Past experience writing and publishing technical white papers.

·         BS/MS degree required; Computer Science or Engineering degree with Technical background highly desired; Advanced Degree a plus

·         Communicate complex ideas and topics to multiple audiences

·         Ba able to work with and communicate internally & with the customer at all levels, including engineers, end-users, partners to senior leaders

·         Understand and extract requirements and/or business problems from people, and provide multiple solutions

·         Design solutions to customer issues by bringing together the right processes, technologies, tools, and people

·         Create level of effort estimates for the proposed solutions to support roadmap & cost model activities

·         The right person will possess 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting experience in the software or infrastructure industries and demonstrate an intermediate understanding of applications, server technology, and network security.

·         Demonstrated knowledge in architecting, deploying, and the operation of solutions. Past experience working directly in customer implementations is highly desirable.

·         The successful candidate will have spent at least 5 years of their career in customer facing roles with a proven record of earning trust as well as effective collaborations across multiple internal organizations and in interactions with partner and customers.

·         Be knowledgeable and have expert level exposure to Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in a Public or Private Cloud environment, including compute and storage services Platform as a service (PaaS) including Database.

·         Extensive experience in the area of data center high availability and disaster recovery, and backup/recovery;

·         Experience and/or architecture knowledge of virtualization software including Oracle VM, KVM, and Hyper-V Exposure

·         Exposure to third party cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure; Knowledge of Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) for database and middleware platforms, Oracle Database WebLogic/Java;

·         Strong communication and presentation skills including white boarding, small and large group conversations, and formal presentations. Strong analytical, facilitation and communication skills (informal, formal, written, verbal and graphical)

·         Work closely with engineering, product managers or IT operations teams and systems engineers to build resilient multi-region services that scale and perform well.

·         Ability to run customer POCs and execute complex projects

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

·         Experience migrating or transforming customer solutions to the cloud

·         Familiarity with common enterprise solutions from Oracle, Microsoft, SAP & VMware

·         Familiarity with Big Data, Analytics, Machine Learning and HPC architectures and workloads

·         Experience with other cloud platform including AWS, Azure, Google Compute Platform & VMware is a plus

·         Strong technical leadership skills

·         Excellent analytical, technical, and communication skills

As part of Oracles employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, after a conditional offer has been extended.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law. 

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