OCI Cloud Architect, Financial Services

OCI Cloud Architect

Financial Services | North America Cloud Engineering

Help financial institutions solve the infrastructure challenges behind their most important workloads. Oracle is seeking a Cloud Architect with direct financial services experience to join our OCI Financial Services Cloud Engineering team in North America.

Our team works with banks, investment firms, insurers, payments companies, and financial technology providers to evaluate and adopt Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. We connect cloud architecture to specific business outcomes: faster research and risk calculations, resilient transaction processing, modern data platforms, and governed AI. We work alongside customers’ existing technology estates, including on‑premises systems and other public clouds.

In this strategic presales role, you will lead technical engagements from discovery through architecture, hands‑on validation, and the technical decision, partnering through adoption and operational handoff. You will work with executives, application owners, platform engineers, and security and risk teams to establish what success means and demonstrate whether a proposed solution meets it.

• Lead workload discovery with sales and customer teams. Identify the business objective, application dependencies, current performance and cost, control requirements, decision makers, and a clear path to technical acceptance.
• Design OCI, hybrid, and multicloud architectures across compute, storage, networking, identity, security, containers, data platforms, and observability. Explain tradeoffs in performance, resilience, operational complexity, and total cost.
• Build and lead workshops, demonstrations, proofs of concept, and benchmarks using representative workloads and approved data. Agree success criteria in advance and document results, limitations, and the customer’s decision.
• Bring financial services context to architecture choices, including transaction correctness, peak demand, batch deadlines, data entitlements, recovery objectives, and dependencies on legacy and third‑party systems.
• Partner with customer security, risk, compliance, and operations teams to address access controls, encryption and key management, data residency, audit evidence, resilience, and third‑party technology review.
• Develop technical proposals, infrastructure sizing, bills of materials, migration approaches, and business cases. Include software licensing, connectivity, support, and operations in cost comparisons; validate service availability and capacity with the appropriate teams.
• Coordinate OCI specialists, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Consulting, and partners to resolve blockers and support a practical transition from proof to adoption.
• Present clearly to technical and executive audiences, maintain accurate engagement plans and next steps, and turn successful approaches into reusable reference architectures and team enablement.

• 10 years of relevant experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, solution engineering, technical consulting, or enterprise architecture, including direct work within financial services or delivering technology to financial institutions.
• Demonstrated depth in at least one financial services domain: banking, payments, capital markets, investment management, insurance, or financial technology. You can explain a real workload, its business purpose, operational constraints, and the architecture decisions you made.
• Strong architecture and practical engineering skills on OCI, AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud, with the ability to build OCI expertise. Experience spanning compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and resilient application…