CSS Lead Cloud Architect Artificial Intelligence at Oracle

Who are we?

The Advanced Service Engineer (ASE) organization in CSS is a global, innovative, open-minded 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 of design, build and manage 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
• Leading CSS’s highly experienced delivery teams by providing technical governance and guidance.
• extensive problem resolution skills
• build relationships with the team members, other Oracle teams and the 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 team. Assist with scope and Loe definition and technical guidance
• Drive innovation by incubating new practices and solutions including a structured approach 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.
• Providing 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 make sure the customer demands needs will be met. 
• Drive your development in Oracle cloud and AI technologies.
• Work closely with different CSS team making implementation and operation of mission critical environment a success. 

Responsibilities

Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum five years (5) 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 through 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 Oracles 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)