Job Description
Provides direction, leadership, and specialist knowledge to Cloud Solution team in designing, demonstrating and deploying Oracle Cloud architectures that address customer business problems. Guides team to drive Oracle Cloud customer consumption through accelerating the adoption of Oracle cloud services.
Responsible for managing resources that work with customers, sales, engineering, and product teams to design and implement cloud solutions for customers. Establishes business objectives, metrics and plans to ensure attainment. Provides leadership on technical cloud solutions and customer success. Identifies gaps and enhancements to influence engineering roadmaps for customer driven features. May deliver presentation demonstrations to high level customers and at conferences and events. Maintains expertise by staying current on emerging technologies. Manages the implementation of solutions and ensures successful deployments by providing direction on code development and scripting. Oversees the support of customers from Proof of Concept (POC) through production deployment of services, management of resource configuration, planning, and customer education/training. Acts as spokesperson for Oracle cloud and an escalation path for relationships.
Minimum qualifications include: 7 years experience with computer applications and tools required. Ability to travel 50% international and domestic.
Preferred but not required qualifications include: Bachelor of Science-level university degree in Computer Science, Math, Engineering from accredited university; and/or relevant 7 years technical experience. Advanced degree in relevant field of studies highly desirable. 3 or more years of previous relevant technical management experience with computer applications and tools. Expertise in and an in depth and thorough knowledge of competitive and industry knowledge in the field of computer applications and tools; System and application design; Implementation of advanced product features; Project management; Solving technical problems with customers in technical environments; Written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills. 8 years experience and expertise in the clear communication of technical information to others through presentations, demonstrations, written communication and consultative solutioning experience.
Responsibilities
The Senior Manager of North America Data Lakehouse Cloud Specialist Team is responsible for providing leadership to a team chartered with accelerating pipeline and cloud consumption for data platform, data lakes / warehousing, big data and data science cloud scenarios. The Senior Manager’s team consists of highly skilled cloud specialists that blend experience and deep subject matter expert knowledge to solve the hardest customer issues in the context of strategic sales engagements. The teams’ responsibilities include thoroughly understanding customers’ business requirements, leading the technical pursuits required to capture cloud bookings and assisting in the customer adoption of Oracle’s Cloud capabilities.
In addition, this leader will have a unique perspective from which to contribute to key business decisions and company-wide cloud strategies and initiatives. This leader will be a vital contributor to our product development teams and to the entire Cloud Solution Engineering team.
S/he must develop a comprehensive strategy and drive results by:
Focusing on the charter to capture the following markets:
Big Data and Hadoop
Data Lake and Data Warehouse Modernization
Data Science
Cloud based Data Platforms beyond RDBMS environments
Data Integration
IoT
Establishing customer cloud solutions fueled by the OCI that deliver growth and tangible, measured outcomes aligned to sales bookings with extreme focus on consumption goals.
Building, motivating and expanding team and individual skills ensuring the organization is agile, can scale to demand, and is optimized across all cloud products and business segments.
Measure, analyze, track and report business, process and quality metrics to achieve targets while examining trends and identifying areas for improvement.
Develop collaborative working relationships with sales, product management, development and other functional areas within Oracle.
PREFERRED PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, CHARACTERISTICS AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS
The ideal candidate must be a high-energy, strategic and technical expert leader possessing a strong sense of urgency with a performance-based track record of success.
S/he will have demonstrated expertise with a cloud product technology company in a pre-sales environment or similar consulting experience. The successful candidate will be technically adept, possessing a broad combination of skills and experiences reflecting the complexities of Oracle and Oracle’s customers. This role requires technical cloud subject matter expertise and the capability to influence critical and timely transformational change for our customers.
The successful candidate:
Over 10+ years of experience working with data or data platforms
3+ years of manager experience leading and directing teams with members located remotely and others that support success through a matrixed environment.
3-5 years of proven domain knowledge of Big Data and Data Science ecosystems. Domain knowledge includes Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, AI/ML, analytics, data science tools and languages like Python & R, Data Lakes/Data Warehouse, Data visualization tools, and Cloud architecture
A proven leader with consulting or pre-sales experience with a recognized deep enterprise cloud technical skill set.
A dynamic technically astute manager who understands what it takes to develop pipeline around cloud products and promote cloud consumption.
A proven and enthusiastic, high-energy, motivating leader who is visibly passionate and is capable of inspiring and galvanizing an organization.
A balance of strategic and tactical skills, with a high-level of intellectual agility and capacity for original thought.
An exceptional communicator who can write, present and effectively adjust messages to meet individual audiences and organizations.
Experience in the ability to manage a team during transformational change.
A proven ability to navigate and effectively collaborate with other departments and resources in large complex environments.
Personal characteristics:
Expects Results: Consistently drives high standards for each individual, the team, and the organization to accomplish established goals. Driven to over-achieve.
Communicates and Influences: Clearly communicates information and ideas to individuals and teams in an articulate, focused and compelling way. Willing to offer intellectual mindshare.
Analytical and Instinctual: Compares information from multiple sources to identify core issues. Uses data to make decisions but also understands that instinct plays a part in innovating. Always uses good common sense.
Possesses Business Acumen: Deep understanding of cloud technology, business and operations with the ability to draw from personal experience to make recommendations.
Builds and Maintains High Performing Teams: Attracts, develops, engages and retains talented team members by creating an environment where people can realize their full potential. Is ego-free. Acknowledges the work of others first.
About Us
Diversity and Inclusion:
An Oracle career can span industries, roles, Countries and cultures, giving you the opportunity to flourish in new roles and innovate, while blending work life in. Oracle has thrived through 40+ years of change by innovating and operating with integrity while delivering for the top companies in almost every industry.
In order to nurture the talent that makes this happen, we are committed to an inclusive culture that celebrates and values diverse insights and perspectives, a workforce that inspires thought leadership and innovation.
Oracle offers a highly competitive suite of Employee Benefits designed on the principles of parity, consistency, and affordability. The overall package includes certain core elements such as Medical, Life Insurance, access to Retirement Planning, and much more. We also encourage our employees to engage in the culture of giving back to the communities where we live and do business.
At Oracle, we believe that innovation starts with diversity and inclusion and to create the future we need talent from various backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to successfully participate in the job application, interview process, and in potential roles. to perform crucial job functions.
That’s why we’re committed to creating a workforce where all individuals can do their best work. It’s when everyone’s voice is heard and valued that we’re inspired to go beyond what’s been done before.
Disclaimer:
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