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ABOUT ORACLE
Emerging technologies are disrupting old paradigms and unleashing new opportunities. Oracle has embedded innovative technologies in every aspect of our cloud, enabling companies to reimagine their businesses, processes, and experiences. And the world's #1 database is now autonomous, allowing enterprises to innovate at the speed of a startup.
DATA MANAGEMENT - Senior Technology Solution Engineer
The primary role of a Technology Solution Engineer (TSE) is to work in a pre-sales capacity to effectively position and ensure growth of Oracle Data Management solutions including core functions of the Oracle Database, Manageability options, Performance options, High Availability & Security options, Data Warehousing & Analytics options. Experience working with APEX or any other RAD tools, mobile application development, IoT, Blockchain will be a definite advantage. TSE supports opportunities for developing customer's business by deploying data products and cloud services. TSE inspires customers into new technologies; defines customer solutions, associated architectures and roadmaps, followed by work in a solution-oriented approach. As such understanding of customer needs, being able to communicate with senior customer staff, from both, business and IT perspective, and increasing value to the customer are key.
Your RESPONSIBILITIES:
This is a fantastic opportunity to be involved in architecting enterprise solutions. This TSE will become part of the regional African TSE team serving the following main responsibilities:
- Provide high quality technical pre-sales services to customers and partners (value proposition, technical workshops, hybrid products positioning) through presentations, demonstrations/seminars, proof of concepts, installations, response to Invitations to Tender and Request for Information documents
- Provides direction and specialist knowledge on new technologies and product features
- Work with our clients to model their data landscape, obtain data extracts and define secure data exchange approaches; good practice data integration strategies etc.
- Acquire, ingest, and process data from multiple sources and systems into Big Data platforms
- Have a strong understanding of Information/ Data Security principles to ensure compliant handling and management of client data
- Facilitation of customer product model understanding through presentations demonstrations and benchmarks.
- Formulating and leading presales technical / functional support activity to prospective clients and customers while ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Lead and participate in marketing activities (presentations, events, articles etc.)
- Maintain knowledge and commercial awareness of the competitor product/solution offerings and value propositions
- Understand the needs and pains of the customer and then map to Oracle products
- Acting as an expert in the Middleware space
Requirements
Your QUALIFICATIONS:
- University Degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or any other equivalent degree
- Minimum 10 years of proven experience and track record related to Oracle technologies
- Professional Qualifications on Oracle and/or 3rd party (TOGAF, ITIL, ISO, CISSP, CISM, AWS, GOOGLE, AZURE)
- A good level of understanding of Oracle's overall technologies and hybrid solutions.
- Feel comfortable developing and presenting solutions to IT as well as Business users using the appropriate approach and language
- Experience working within OR with banking industry and/or public sector is a great advantage.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- French advanced speaker-mandatory
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.