OCI Principal Technical Architect

Are you an OCI expert looking for a new challenge?

Role Overview:

• Are you an Oracle Architect with experience of cloud migrations and OCI?
• Would you like to expand your experience of cloud technologies with a focus on OCI?
• Are you the person who understands and "owns" the end-to-end solution during a project?
• Do you enjoy inspiring and leading a successful cloud transformation team?
• Do you enjoy developing and growing new business in a dynamic cloud environment?
• Do you understand how to sell and position business value to senior stakeholders?
• Would you like to further these skills and take your career to the next level?
• Then you could be our next OCI Architect.

We are looking for an experienced, motivated lead OCI Architect who can

(a.) lead and inspire more junior members of a delivery team,
(b.) act as the presales lead to develop and win new cloud business.

We are looking to grow our team with architects who have big ambitions to succeed in the IT Industry and are keen to build and enhance their careers with one of the leading technology companies of our time.

You will be supported by ADS Consulting's extensive network of industry and technical experts along with our innovative, collaborative and fun training and development opportunities both in the UK and across Europe.
Key Responsibilities:

• Provides advice and guidance to development teams on architectures and application designs Identifies and promotes best practice, including standards, frameworks and solution methodologies
• Proactively identify opportunities for extending existing and new developments into re-usable resources, and maintains a central repository of resources, including code, design documentation, standards, patterns and guidance
• Tracks market trends and competitor activities in 'expert' area and ensure this data is utilised for the ongoing service development
• Defines scope and deliverables for assignment with 'client' (may be internal or external) for the design of complex systems architectures to integrate business and IT requirements
• Delivers effective technical architecture designs in accordance with agreed scope, time, financial and quality measures
• Ensures effective client engagement and stakeholder management during assignment (may include management of technology partners and subcontractors)
• Completes assignment review with 'client' at the end of each and every assignment (or six monthly for long term assignments)
• Actively promotes Sopra Steria consulting, application management, business process and IT-outsourcing services.
• Seeks and gains recognition outside Sopra Steria within 'expert' area by active involvement in industry / specialist groups that develops recognition of Company's capability that is transferable into sales opportunities
• Develops and exploits personal network of contacts within Sopra Steria to ensure high levels of chargeable personal utilisation
• Shares personal knowledge of 'expert' area through coaching and mentoring, running workshops, establishing 'special interest groups'
• To identify and manage risk in his/her business activities and take responsibility for reporting risks in a timely, open and appropriate manner

What you'll bring:

• Experience of Cloud solutions
• Proven experience assessing client's Oracle workloads and technology landscape for OCI suitability, Including OCI Network and Security design for complex architectures to support high availability and disaster recovery requirements.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the latest and emerging developments in IT
  and cloud technologies;
• Have delivery experience from cloud migrations;
• Have a good understanding of cloud offerings from the leading cloud vendors;
• Be able to present a point of view in a compelling way and defend it when needed;
• Be able to clearly articulate and document cloud transformation strategies and roadmaps;
• Link business requirement to technology and cloud solutions;
• Capture and interpret business requirement;
• Have an understanding of how to build financial TCO and/or ROI models;
• Demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills;
• Be comfortable interacting with stakeholders including C level when needed.

Desirable Skills:

• SaaS
• Oracle EBS Apps DBA Implementation and Production Support experience
• Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud (OCI, Azure, AWS, GCP) and overall industry to provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers etc.) and mentor team to build necessary capability.
• In depth knowledge of Oracle SaaS and PaaS

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time
Location: UK Remote, with some travel
Security Clearance Level: SC
Internal Recruiter: Josh Huggins-Smith
Salary: £95,000
Benefits: £6,600 car allowance, couple medical cover, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company?

Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

Our technical specialists deploy systems running many of the major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and multiple Linux distros. We also provide Messaging and Collaboration systems and support, Application packaging and deployment, along with supporting Infrastructure and Cloud services and support. Our time can be split between our services and project work, so we have the chance to be multi-disciplined and access to a range of technologies.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.