Senior Platform Architect – Cloud & OCI

Oracle

Vienna (VA)

On-site

USD 96,800 - 306,400

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k) matching

Stock purchase plan

Parental leave

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a seasoned Solution Architect to lead cloud transformation initiatives for a strategic client. You will design enterprise-grade architectures ensuring security, scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence while collaborating with business leaders, application teams, infrastructure engineers, SaaS Product and Consulting teams, and cloud platform providers.

Responsibilities include guiding architecture reviews, creating diagrams, validating modernization strategies, and

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
12+ years IT experience with at least 8 years in solution architecture.
Strong experience designing enterprise cloud solutions.
Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Strong understanding of networking concepts including routing, load balancing, VPN, FastConnect, DNS, firewalls, and hybrid connectivity.
Experience with Linux and Windows platforms.
Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native architectures.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
Strong understanding of identity and access management, encryption, and cloud security best practices.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience supporting financial institutions or highly regulated industries.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
Experience designing multi-region disaster recovery solutions.
Knowledge of Zero Trust architecture principles.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and design sessions for enterprise applications, platform and infrastructure.
Translate business and technical requirements into scalable solution architectures.
Design secure, highly available, and resilient cloud solutions using OCI.
Develop architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and implementation guidance.
Evaluate existing environments and recommend modernization strategies.
Define networking architectures including VCNs, DRGs, Load Balancers, DNS, security zones, and hybrid connectivity.
Establish shared observability frameworks and rollout policies adopted by numerous teams; manage deprecation risk.
Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, database, DevOps, and application development teams throughout project delivery.
Conduct architecture reviews and provide governance throughout the project lifecycle.
Identify technical risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
Support disaster recovery, business continuity, and high-availability solution designs.
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to existing architectures.
Mentor engineering teams on architecture best practices and cloud-native design patterns.
Collaborates with stakeholders internally and externally to lead efforts to understand customer issues, root causes, and mitigation to align and explain rationale behind solutions.
Must provide expert technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues to mitigate recurrence.
Acts as an advisor to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements and solutions based on feedback.
Networks across lines of business to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
Leads project initiatives for periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching.
Acts as subject matter expert to drive improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.
Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization.
Develops innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows.