OCI Cloud Architect — Strategic Enterprise Cloud

Oracle Corporation; New Jersey; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking an OCI Cloud Architect to join the North America Cloud Engineering team. This presales role combines deep cloud infrastructure expertise, executive engagement, and business acumen to help customers modernize IT environments.

The successful candidate will advise customers, sales teams, and Oracle leadership, designing cloud solutions, leading architecture discussions, and guiding complex migration efforts across multicloud environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, solution engineering, or related technical roles.
• Proven success supporting complex enterprise technology sales cycles.
• Deep expertise in public cloud platforms, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and enterprise architecture.
• Experience designing and implementing large-scale cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, virtualization, storage, networking, identity management, security, and operations.
• Experience engaging senior executives including CIOs, CTOs, Chief Architects, Infrastructure Leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large, complex technical pursuits with cross-functional teams.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise technology buying cycles and influencing customer decisions.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, storytelling, and executive engagement skills.
• Ability to articulate technical concepts in business terms and align solutions to customer outcomes.
• Collaborative mindset with ability to influence without direct authority.
• Passion for customer success and building long-term trusted advisor relationships.

Responsibilities

• Partner with sales teams to identify, qualify, and advance strategic OCI opportunities across accounts.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs, Chief Architects, Infrastructure Leaders, and executives.
• Lead technical discovery sessions to understand objectives, environments, and modernization plans.
• Architect and present OCI solutions addressing customer requirements while differentiating Oracle.
• Develop executive presentations, architectures, proposals, and migration strategies.
• Serve as technical lead for strategic pursuits, coordinating cross-functional Oracle resources.
• Design enterprise-scale cloud architectures spanning compute, storage, networking, security, and AI services.
• Lead customer workshops, architecture reviews, POCs, and solution validation activities.
• Help customers evaluate migration strategies and hybrid/multicloud architectures.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Enterprise architecture

Executive engagement

Solution engineering

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Engineering / Business

Tools

OCI

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Observability

Job description

Oracle is seeking an OCI Cloud Architect to join the North America Cloud Engineering team. This presales role combines deep cloud infrastructure expertise, executive engagement, and business acumen to help customers modernize IT environments.

The successful candidate will advise customers, sales teams, and Oracle leadership, designing cloud solutions, leading architecture discussions, and guiding complex migration efforts across multicloud environments.