Oracle · 4 hours ago
Principal Cloud Architect, Higher Education - West
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$113K/yr - $185K/yrOracle is a world leader in cloud solutions committed to innovation and inclusivity. They are seeking a Principal Cloud Architect with expertise in AI and cloud architecture for higher education, responsible for designing and deploying Oracle Cloud architectures, engaging with customers, and driving cloud service adoption.
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Responsibilities
Engages with strategic customers, builds leadership relationships at multiple levels within organizations in order to design and implement solutions
Works directly with customers to gather requirements, develop architectures and translates business needs into solutions
May implement solutions and ensure successful deployments through code development and scripting
Displays product/application understanding through highly customized presentation demonstrations to customers, and at conferences, and events
Supports customer from Proof of Concept (POC) through production deployment of services via resource configuration, planning, and customer education/training
Creates and distributes technical assets (white papers, solution code, blog posts, and video demonstrations)
Serves as a leading contributor for customers and sales on technical cloud solutions and customer success
Identifies gaps and enhancements to influence engineering roadmaps for customer driven features
Leading contributor, may provide direction and mentoring to others
Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization
May interact with C level
Maintains expertise by staying current on emerging technologies
Qualification
Required
Strong familiarity with R1 research institutions
Higher-education IT and research computing ecosystems
Ability to engage credibly with CIOs, Research IT, campus HPC leaders, and Principal Investigators
Ability to connect OCI's capabilities to real-world challenges such as scaling AI research, augmenting constrained on-prem clusters, and enabling secure, compliant, and cost-aligned AI adoption across campus
Experience in designing, demonstrating and deploying Oracle Cloud architectures
Ability to gather requirements and develop architectures
Ability to translate business needs into solutions
Experience in implementing solutions and ensuring successful deployments through code development and scripting
Ability to create and distribute technical assets (white papers, solution code, blog posts, and video demonstrations)
Ability to identify gaps and enhancements to influence engineering roadmaps for customer driven features
Ability to maintain expertise by staying current on emerging technologies
Preferred
Strong understanding of research computing
AI workload patterns
Data lifecycle considerations
Higher-education funding and budget models
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
11 paid holidays
Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
Company
Oracle
Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Founded in 1977
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$25.75BKey Investors
Sequoia Capital
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1986-03-12IPO
Leadership Team
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