
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect – Presales, Professional Services Practice Lead
Minor Hotels Europe and Americas
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Houston • Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $139,400 - $277,200 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AnsibleCloudOracleTerraform
About the role
- Lead presales engagements by collaborating with sales to understand customer requirements and design OCI-based solutions that address business challenges.
- Conduct discovery workshops, technical presentations, and proof-of-concepts demonstrating OCI capabilities and value.
- Develop and articulate solution architectures including compute, networking, storage, database, security, and automation on OCI.
- Lead and mentor a team of OCI consultants and architects to deliver high-quality professional services.
- Build and expand the professional services practice by identifying new service offerings, refining delivery frameworks, and driving operational excellence.
- Collaborate with product teams, partners, and stakeholders to stay current on OCI innovations and best practices.
- Develop technical proposals, statements of work, and pricing models to support presales and project delivery.
- Manage customer relationships as a trusted advisor to ensure successful adoption and satisfaction with OCI implementations.
- Support training and enablement programs for sales and delivery teams to increase OCI knowledge and capabilities.
- Track market trends, competitor offerings, and client feedback to continuously evolve the practice.
Requirements
- Extensive experience architecting and deploying Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) solutions in enterprise environments.
- Strong background in cloud infrastructure design including compute, storage, networking, databases, and security.
- Proven track record leading presales engagements and winning cloud deals.
- Experience growing or managing a professional services practice or consulting team.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with ability to engage technical and business audiences.
- Deep understanding of cloud migration, modernization, automation, and governance best practices.
- Oracle Cloud certifications (e.g., OCI Architect Professional) strongly preferred.
- Ability to travel as needed to support client engagements and business development.
- Experience with Oracle SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS products.
- Familiarity with DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), and CI/CD pipelines on OCI.
- Understanding of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud architectures.
Benefits
- Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade
- Company paid holidays
- Personal Days
- Sick Leave
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
- Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee assistance programs
- Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)cloud infrastructure designcloud migrationmodernizationautomationgovernance best practicesDevOpsInfrastructure as CodeTerraformAnsible
Soft skills
communicationpresentationinterpersonalleadershipmentoringcollaborationcustomer relationship managementoperational excellenceengagement with technical audiencesengagement with business audiences
Certifications
OCI Architect Professional