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 to 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. EA work 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 process, value chains and capabilities across various business functions. They work with clients to assess where process 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 very senior level within the customer organisation - typically, CIO, Chief Architect or CTO - to build a strong strategic architecture relationship with the customer. This is usually realised 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 LoB 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 re-use through the capture of these large-scale architecture designs and their evangelising within Oracle. This includes not only direct re-use in future architecture opportunities, but also the use of those solutions in business development, services proposition development, future product direction.
Provides direction and specialist knowledge in applying the technology/application to client business. Facilitation of customer product/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 LoBs
- 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-base mind-set.
- 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.
- Leads 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 Point of Views (Public Sector, Governement …)
- 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..
- ERP Experience is a must
- Enterprise Architecture Methods/ Modern IT architectures is a must
- 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
Qualifications:
- 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, Govt. etc.) and Domain (SaaS, Cloud, Data and AI, Customer Experience Management etc.) by establishing and applying architecture patterns.
- Specific knowledge of Oracle applications/solutions and the competition is an advantage
- Knowledge of architecture frameworks like e.g. TOGAF, IAF, DYA and Oracle’s OADP/OEAF.
We also use…
SaaS (e.g., ERP, EPM, HCM, CX and SCM), PaaS, IaaS and Digital Transformation related topics
Cloud solutions and respective use-cases
Oracle solutions
C-level presentation and consultative selling experience
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
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Career Level - IC5
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