Oci Senior 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**: - 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) - 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 **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**: - 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. 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**: £75,000 Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, single medical cover, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund** **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 privilegedenvironment. 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 forthe customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety - and security-critical markets.