CSS Lead Cloud Architect Artificial Intelligence

Oracle; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A major technology company in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Lead Cloud Architect to design and manage advanced cloud solutions with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of five years of experience in delivering cloud architectures and AI solutions. Responsibilities include establishing client relationships, leading delivery teams, and ensuring adherence to best practices. Candidates must possess strong communication skills and a customer-first attitude. This role offers the opportunity to work in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of experience as a senior architect delivering cloud and AI solutions.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical staff.
• Customer-first attitude with a keen interest in new technologies.
• Proven technical leadership from sales to delivery for complex solutions.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and managing cloud and AI solutions.
• Establishing trusted relationships with customers.
• Leading delivery teams and providing technical governance.
• Ensuring successful handover from implementation to operations.
• Driving development in Oracle Cloud and AI technologies.

Skills

Cloud architecture experience

AI solutions delivery

Strong communication skills

Technical leadership

Team player

Tools

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Machine Learning

DevOps

Job description

Description

Who are we

The Advanced Service Engineer (ASE) organization in CSS is a global innovative openminded and diverse team of highly skilled technical engineers. The ASE establishes long‑term trusted relationships with Oracle’s key customers, helping them to maximize their Oracle Cloud and on‑premise investment, innovate faster and accelerate their business success with solutions for all cloud environments and Artificial Intelligence solutions.

Job Description

We are looking for a Lead Cloud Architect (LCA) with Artificial Intelligence experience who will be responsible for designing, building and managing best‑in‑class solutions for our CSS customers:

• Establishes trusted relationships with customers
• Be familiar with Oracle Cloud and AI products and solutions
• Assess and analyse customer needs to capture business and industry requirements; translate them into technical architectures aligned with Oracle's best practices
• Lead CSS’s highly experienced delivery teams by providing technical governance and guidance.
• Extensive problem resolution skills
• Build relationships with team members, other Oracle teams and customers at different levels of the reporting line up to CIO or equivalent business owner.
• Be the main contact for new business opportunities by supporting our CSS Services Solutioning with scope and LOE definition and technical guidance
• Drive innovation by incubating new practices and solutions including a structured approach on how to adapt them.
• Market awareness around existing and emerging technologies
• Apply industry and Oracle best practices, product knowledge and business acumen
• Be the Oracle Solution Delivery authority to ensure that customers achieve beneficial solutions regarding cost effectiveness, quality and manageability.
• Provide technical guidance on Oracle Cloud and AI solutions to customers and Oracle internal.
• Ensure successful handover from implementation toward operations, making sure the implemented solution will fit the customer requirements.
• Maintain the Oracle Solution to meet customer demands and needs.
• Drive your development in Oracle Cloud and AI technologies.
• Work closely with different CSS teams, making implementation and operation of mission‑critical environments a success.

Career Level IC4

Responsibilities

Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum five years of experience as a senior architect delivering cloud and AI solutions
• Applicants are required to read, write and speak fluently English.
• Strong communication skills including the ability to communicate with technical and non‑technical staff at all levels of the customer organization.
• Keen to learn new cloud and AI technologies
• Customer‑first attitude
• Team player making your team stronger
• Technical leadership from sales to delivery for large and complex cloud and AI solutions
• Positive, creative, agile and innovative attitude around design and delivery of solutions (think out of the box)
• Ability to analyse and document complex issues and give recommendations.
• Positive influencer on those around you and motivate others toward success.

Preferred Technical Skills:

• Overall good knowledge of Oracle's cloud solutions (OCI IaaS, PaaS, Networks)
• Strong knowledge of AI technologies
  • Application AI features for different industries
  • Machine Learning, Deep Learning
  • Common AI use cases
  • AI services & technologies (Digital assistant, NLP, Speech, Anomaly detection)
  • Generative AI incl. Cohere
  • Data science
  • AI infrastructure (GPU, RDMA, Nvidia software)
• Good knowledge of Applications/SaaS Databases and Middleware/PaaS services
• Good technical knowledge of relevant open‑source cloud technologies
• Strong understanding of cloud security
• Knowledge of cloud‑native design solutions
• Strong automation process and technology experience (DevOps, GitOps)

At Oracle we don't just respect differences, we celebrate and believe that innovation starts with inclusion and to create the future we need people with diverse backgrounds, perspectives and abilities. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where all kinds of people can do their best work. It's when everyone's voice is heard and valued that we're inspired to go beyond what's been done before.

We expressly encourage disabled candidates to apply for this position. Please therefore feel free to voluntarily inform us in your application about any severe disability (degree of disability of at least 50 or any equal status (degree of disability of at least 30 together with official decision on equality) in accordance with the German SGB IX.

In case the candidate states that he/she has a disability we would need to involve the representative for disabled people (SBV) into the whole recruitment process. As soon as you get an application from a disabled person please send the CV etc. to the SBV and hiring manager. All interviews with this disabled candidate and applicants for the same position have to be conducted together with the SBV.