OCI Architect: Enterprise Cloud Strategy Lead

DXC Technology Company; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

DXC Technology is seeking an experienced Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Architect to lead the architecture of enterprise cloud environments in Riyadh. You will own the architecture lifecycle from strategy through governance and optimization.

The role requires deep OCI expertise to translate business, security, and operational requirements into scalable, cost-effective solutions and to guide engineering teams through implementation.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years in enterprise IT with 6 years in cloud architecture and 4 years in OCI.
• Lead architect on a large-scale OCI migration, greenfield, or hybrid cloud program.
• Expert knowledge of OCI Compute, Networking, Storage, IAM, Database, and Security services.
• Hands-on experience designing OCI landing zones, multitenancy, and governance controls.
• Strong Terraform expertise with the OCI provider, including CI-driven deployment.
• Solid knowledge of Oracle RAC, Data Guard, Autonomous DB, and Exadata Cloud Service.
• Experience designing Kubernetes platforms on OKE and cloud-native patterns.
• TOGAF or equivalent enterprise architecture framework.
• Experience leading architecture governance, design reviews, or design authority processes.
• Ability to present complex technical decisions to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state OCI architectures aligned with objectives and roadmaps.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, and guardrails for OCI workloads.
• Lead Architecture Review Boards and approve technical designs.
• Develop reference architectures, blueprints, and design patterns across OCI services.
• Provide governance and assurance across delivery teams, including non-functional reviews.
• Architect OCI landing zones, multitenancy, tagging, IAM policies, and governance.
• Design hub-and-spoke VCNs, DRG routing, FastConnect, and cross-region peering.
• Define security architectures using Cloud Guard, Security Zones, Vault, and WAF.
• Plan data platforms with Autonomous DB, Exadata Cloud, MySQL HeatWave, OCI Data Flow.
• Shape monitoring and operations with OCI Monitoring, Logging Analytics, and Datadog/Grafana.
• Lead large migration waves, sequencing, and migration patterns.
• Design identity, networking, security, and ops foundations before migration.
• Define DB migration approaches using OCI Database Migration Service and GoldenGate.
• Plan application modernization via OKE, OCI Functions, or platform re-architecture.

Skills

OCI expertise

OCI Compute

OCI Networking

OCI IAM

OCI Security

Terraform

OG Architecture governance

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

OCI DevOps

GitLab

Job description

DXC Technology is seeking an experienced Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Architect to lead the architecture of enterprise cloud environments in Riyadh. You will own the architecture lifecycle from strategy through governance and optimization.

The role requires deep OCI expertise to translate business, security, and operational requirements into scalable, cost-effective solutions and to guide engineering teams through implementation.