Job description / Role
The Role
The Enterprise Architect is the most senior customer-facing architecture role within Oracle and is critical to the relationship between the customer and Oracle. The Enterprise Architect acts as a bridge between the needs of the customer and the solutions and services that Oracle may bring to bear to deliver value to the customer. The Enterprise Architect provides leadership within Oracle across the various lines of business to ensure that Oracle's value offerings to the customer are feasible, consistent, effective, and aligned to the customer need. The primary role is to inspire business transformation by aligning an organization's industry-specific strategic objectives with its operating model, process, and capabilities. The Enterprise Architect works to disassemble opportunities for transformation into phased, value-based recommendations.
The Enterprise Architect has the broadest knowledge of all IT architects, covering all layers of the architecture, all functional domains, and across many industries. Enterprise Architects possess deep knowledge of business processes, value chains, and capabilities across various business functions. They work with clients to assess where processes and capabilities are today, and which ones must be matured in order to meet organizational strategy.
The Enterprise Architect will typically not have deep skills in any specific area but will work with deep domain and product experts where necessary.
The Enterprise Architect will work closely with the customer at a very senior level within the customer organization - typically, CIO, Chief Architect, or CTO - to build a strong strategic architecture relationship with the customer. This is usually realized through regular and frequent meetings with the customer - for example, within the construct of an architecture board. Whilst the focus will likely be on the customer's use of Oracle products and services, the aspiration is to build sufficient trust with the customer such that Oracle's products are considered at the earliest point of the customer's decision-making. The Enterprise Architect will also work with other lines of business architects to build a complete high-level architecture that covers all aspects necessary to deliver success to Oracle and the customer.
As the senior role in the architecture community, the Enterprise Architect must also lead beyond a single opportunity. The Enterprise Architect will lead on architecture reuse through the capture of these large-scale architecture designs and their evangelizing within Oracle. This includes not only direct reuse in future architecture opportunities but also the use of those solutions in business development, services proposition development, and future product direction.
The Enterprise Architect provides direction and specialist knowledge in applying the technology and application to client business. Facilitation of customer product and application understanding through presentations, demonstrations, and benchmarks; provision of support throughout the sell.
What You Will Do
- As Enterprise Architect, you will drive delivery of value to customers passionate about business-driven enterprise architectures to support enterprise-wide applications solutions.
- Support account teams in large-scale opportunities
- Support Inspire activities in accounts to generate customer interest
- Work in collaboration with local account team and a broad range of other Oracle lines of business
- Exercise creativity, independent judgment, and business acumen in selecting methods and techniques to design non-routine and very complex business solutions utilizing Oracle products and technology to meet customer needs.
- Interact with all roles at customer - including CIO, CTO, IT Architects, technical staff, and business representatives.
- Provide recommendations on process, capability, and technology changes to enable the realization of client strategy.
- Work with a broad range of Oracle roles to support complex Oracle opportunities with the appropriate skills, deliverables, and outcome-based mindset.
- Participate in the development of actionable roadmaps for the adoption of new business applications and technology solutions.
- Conduct repeatable strategy, architecture, roadmap, and planning workshops.
- Provide assessment of current state architecture and recommendation of future state architecture.
- Enterprise Blueprints inclusive of Business Model Canvases, Business Functional Capabilities Models, Customer Journey Maps, Value Chains Frameworks, and End-to-End Process Maps.
- Provide client-specific roadmap and transition plan and identify quick wins developed in collaboration with Value Consultants and Delivery Teams.
- Define, develop, and evolve architecture standards and principles.
- Lead the architecture and solution design aspects of engagement(s) ensuring high quality and integrated cross-domain business solutions.
- Identify and evangelize key business and technology benefits of adoption.
- Advise on organizational impact of solutions.
- Industry and Vertical-Specific Business Hypothesis and Points of Views (Public Sector, Government...)
- Play an active role as part of the architecture community.
- Remain fully aware of relevant architectural programs and assets from Oracle worldwide.
- Remain aware of all relevant product developments and references - both at Oracle and at competitors.
- Interact with a varied set of customer roles and levels including line of business leaders, global process owners, chief data officers, and technology leaders.
- Career Level
- IC5
What You Need
- Strategic and outcome-based mindset
- ERP experience is a must and GRP (Government ERP) is key.
- Public sector expertise (Government, Healthcare, Education)
- Enterprise architecture methods and modern IT architectures
- Broad cross-functional, cross-domain IT knowledge
- Expert level business acumen and understanding of customer business lifecycles.
- Expert level breadth in business application solutions and transformational technologies.
- Background in business process design and consulting.
- Skilled in the areas of facilitation, consensus building, change management, problem solving, and storytelling.
- Modern application architectures, modern technology architectures
- Modern development approaches.
Requirements:
- University degree in computer sciences or similar IT-related field
- Extensive background as (Lead) Enterprise Architect, CTO, or Head of Architecture
- 10+ years experience relevant to this position.
- Public sector expertise
- Proven technical expertise in SaaS (ERP, HCM, CX), PaaS, IaaS, and digital transformation related topics
- Holistic knowledge of cloud solutions and respective use-cases
- Wide background including architecture, implementation, and delivery of large-scale hardware and software systems in real-world situations.
- Ability to craft and articulate strategic solutions. Good knowledge of implementation methodologies and best practices.
- Ability to synthesize information from multiple sources, connect this to organizational strategy and frame it in simple, compelling ways, and advise on target operating model and change management.
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge and deep expertise in designing architectures for either an industry (Healthcare, Government, etc.) and domain (SaaS, Cloud, Data and AI, Customer Experience Management, etc.) by establishing and applying architecture patterns.
- Specific knowledge of Oracle applications and solutions and the competition is an advantage
- Knowledge of architecture frameworks like TOGAF, IAF, DYA, and Oracle's OADP/OEAF.
What We Will Offer You
- A competitive salary with exciting benefits
- Learning and development opportunities to advance your career
- An Employee Assistance Program to support your mental health
- Employee resource groups that champion our diverse communities
- Core benefits such as life insurance and access to retirement planning
- An inclusive culture that celebrates what makes you unique
Create the Future with Us
At Oracle, we don't just respect differences - we celebrate them. We believe that innovation starts with inclusion and to create the future we need people with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. That's why we're committed to creating a workplace where all kinds of people can do their best work. It's when everyone's voice is heard and valued that we're inspired to go beyond what's been done before.
About the Company
Oracle offers an integrated array of applications, databases, servers, storage, and cloud technologies to empower modern business. For most companies, flexibility is critical. Oracle provides a wide choice of software, systems, and cloud deployment models - including public, on-premises, and hybrid clouds - to ensure that technology flexes to the unique needs of a business.
Oracle Cloud is a complete, integrated stack of platform, infrastructure, and application services. With advanced scalability and security, Oracle Cloud enables technical agility across the enterprise, connects people to information for clearer insights, and fosters efficiency through simplified workflows.
More than 420,000 customers across 145 countries have harnessed Oracle technology to accelerate their digital transformation.
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