Solution Architect Oracle Technologies

Do you want to play a critical role in shaping and sustaining Oracle technology domain roadmaps? Do you like to integrate business requirements and market trends with vendor solutions to create viable offerings?   As a Solution Architect Oracle Technologies you will be responsible for:

• Technology Roadmap Development: You develop and present comprehensive Oracle technology roadmaps ensuring alignment with market trends and product evolutions within specific domains or vendor stacks
• Solution Integration: You integrate business requirements and market trends with available solutions from specific vendors to design feasible solutions
• Strategic Advisory: You act as a trusted advisor in the designated technology domain for customers and Cegeka infrastructure architects, providing expert guidance on optimal infrastructure architecture
• Market Analysis: You continuously analyze market evolutions to inspect and adapt technology solution roadmaps, ensuring services are based on the latest knowledge
• Solution Leadership: You lead the creation of new solutions and the optimization of existing products to maintain or enhance the organization's market position
• Sales Support: You assist the sales team as a trusted technology advisor, addressing technical possibilities to support sales cases
• Implementation Oversight: You monitor ongoing implementations and use cases within the technology domain, distilling solution improvements and developing corporate strategies to enhance the product portfolio
• Strategic Formulation: You formulate strategic choices for management regarding investments, optimizations, or margin assurance programs. You contribute to the yearly budget exercise in alignment with the Global Competence Leads
• Vision Sharing: You communicate a compelling vision with Design Authorities and align on short-term roadmap items to facilitate detailed work planning
• Risk Management: You proactively identify and propose solutions for potential risks and issues, escalating when necessary to ensure timely and quality delivery
• Compliance Supervision: You ensure that new products and services comply with legal and security regulations by supervising compliance with existing regulations.

• You have at least 5 years of relevant experience
• In the Oracle Technology domain, you are knowledgeable about and closely follow their product stack across various levels. This includes hardware and engineered systems, database technology, as well as relevant middleware and application software. You are well-versed in these solutions within private, public, and hybrid cloud contexts
• You are familiar with the strategic trends, roadmaps, and expected evolutions of Oracle Corporation and you are able to list the main advantages and limitations of most of them 
• You have strong communication and presentation skills 
• You have a hands-on and proactive mindset 
• You are able to work autonomously but also in close cooperation with the Design Authorities, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Product Managers, Sales, engineers, … 
• You are able to demonstrate a proven track record of your involvement in previous implementations in multiple environments concerning many of the below tags: #EXADATA, #EXACC, #ZFS, #RA23, #PCA, #OC3, #OLVM, #ORACLE LINUX, #ORACLE DATABASE, #MYSQL, #OEM, #EBS, #WEBLOGIC, #ODI, #GOLDEN GATE, #OCI, …
• You have a master degree
• You speak and write fluently English. Knowledge of Dutch and/or French is a plus
• Depending on where you live, you can work in our offices in Hasselt, Leuven, Ghent or Antwerp in combination with working from home and visiting customers.