Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your Role And Responsibilities

As an Application Architect specializing in Oracle OCI, you will design and architect enterprise-grade solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, translating business requirements into cloud-native architectures that are secure, highly available, cost-efficient, and aligned with enterprise standards. You will provide technical leadership and guidance to DBAs, migration engineers, and developers throughout project lifecycles. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Design Cloud-Native Architectures: Design OCI landing zones with enterprise standards for tenancy structure, compartments, security, networking, monitoring, and logging, ensuring alignment with performance, scalability, and compliance requirements.
• Architect Database Solutions: Architect database solutions using OCI-native services, such as Autonomous Database, Exadata Cloud Service, and Database Cloud Service, to meet business requirements.
• Define High Availability Architectures: Define high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region architectures leveraging Autonomous Data Guard, GoldenGate, and OCI replication services to ensure business continuity.
• Establish Migration Blueprints: Establish migration and modernization blueprints, including re-host, re-platform, and re-architecture approaches, to accelerate cloud adoption.
• Lead Solution Design Workshops: Lead solution design workshops, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and technical reviews to validate architecture choices and ensure successful project outcomes.

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Deep Expertise in Cloud Architecture: Experience with designing and architecting enterprise-grade solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including cloud-native architectures, landing zones, and core infrastructure components such as VCNs, subnets, load balancers, and firewalls.
• Advanced Knowledge of Database Solutions: Experience with architecting database solutions using OCI-native services, including Autonomous Database, Exadata Cloud Service, and Database Cloud Service, with a focus on performance, scalability, and compliance requirements.
• High Availability Architecture Expertise: Experience with defining high availability, disaster recovery, and multi-region architectures leveraging Autonomous Data Guard, GoldenGate, and OCI replication services.
• Cloud Migration and Modernization: Experience with establishing migration and modernization blueprints, including re-host, re-platform, and re-architecture approaches, to accelerate cloud adoption.
• Technical Leadership: Experience with providing technical leadership and guidance to DBAs, migration engineers, and developers throughout project lifecycles, including leading solution design workshops, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and technical reviews.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Expertise: Experience with designing hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, integrating OCI with AWS, Azure, and GCP via Direct Connect, ExpressRoute, and Interconnect, is beneficial for this role.
• Automation Frameworks Knowledge: Familiarity with creating automation frameworks using OCI Resource Manager (Terraform), Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments is a plus.
• Security Compliance Understanding: Knowledge of compliance with SOC2, ISO, GDPR, and enterprise governance policies is advantageous for partnering with security teams.