Senior OCI Solution Architect DBA/App Lead

Senior OCI Solution Architect DBA/App Lead

Our client, FourthSquare, is actively seeking a Senior OCI Solution Architect DBA/App Lead. This critical role involves leading Oracle workload modernization, migration, and managed services transition across OCI and hybrid/multicloud environments, with a strong preference for Oracle Database@Azure (Oracle DB@Azure) and broader Azure exposure. The position blends architecture leadership, DB team leadership, hands-on Oracle platform depth (DB / EBS / Middleware), delivery execution, and customer-facing solutioning and growth support. The ideal candidate will guide projects from discovery through cutover and transition to run, ensuring technical quality and managing risks effectively.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Solution Design

• Lead architecture for Oracle workload migrations and upgrades on OCI, including hybrid and multicloud patterns.
• Design secure, supportable target-state solutions for Oracle Database (single instance / RAC), Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), and Oracle Middleware (WebLogic / SOA).
• Define High Availability/Disaster Recovery (HA/DR), backup, performance, and operational readiness aligned to RTO/RPO objectives.

OCI / Azure / DB@Azure Modernization

• Architect and support solutions involving OCI-native Oracle deployments and Oracle Database@Azure (preferred).
• Manage Azure connectivity, landing zone, and integration dependencies (preferred).
• Address network, Identity and Access Management (IAM), environment, and platform dependencies across various teams.

Delivery Leadership

• Lead technical execution for migrations, upgrades, cutovers, and hypercare phases.
• Produce and review High-Level Design (HLD)/Low-Level Design (LLD), migration runbooks, cutover/rollback plans, and validation checklists.
• Drive issue resolution across onshore and offshore teams.

Managed Services Transition

• Define transition-to-run readiness, covering monitoring, runbooks, ownership, and escalation procedures.
• Improve repeatability, delivery quality, and supportability of solutions.
• Support the conversion of project work into recurring managed services.

Customer & Pre-Sales Support

• Conduct discovery workshops and translate customer needs into delivery-ready designs.
• Support estimates, options, risks, and technical approach during deal shaping.
• Act as a trusted advisor for customer IT, DB, application, and infrastructure teams.

Experience

Required Qualifications

• 15+ years in enterprise IT with deep Oracle platform experience.
• 10+ years in lead architect or technical lead roles.
• Proven experience delivering Oracle migrations/upgrades and production-critical cutovers.
• Strong customer-facing experience and leadership of distributed teams.

Technical Skills

• OCI architecture and implementation (strong).
• Oracle Database Administration / Architecture (strong).
• Expertise in backup/recovery, HA/DR, tuning, upgrades/migrations.
• Oracle EBS and/or Oracle enterprise application platform support/migrations.
• Oracle Middleware (WebLogic / SOA) experience.
• Linux/platform administration in Oracle environments.
• Strong design documentation and runbook discipline.

Strongly Preferred (Elevated)

• Oracle Database@Azure (Oracle DB@Azure) architecture and/or delivery experience.
• Azure exposure, especially networking/connectivity, Identity/IAM integration, hybrid architecture patterns, and operational dependencies across OCI and Azure teams.
• Experience with Oracle workloads in multicloud/hybrid enterprise environments.
• OCI certifications.
• Oracle RAC.
• Oracle analytics stack exposure (OAS/OAC/OBIEE/ODI).
• Managed services transition/run-model experience.
• Regulated industry experience (financial services, healthcare, public sector, etc.).

Success Measures (First 6–12 Months)

• Delivers Oracle modernization/migration projects with predictable technical outcomes.
• Improves cutover readiness and transition-to-run quality.
• Establishes reusable architecture and delivery patterns.
• Reduces delivery risk through stronger dependency management and documentation.
• Supports growth in OCI + DB@Azure opportunities.

Key skills/competency

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Oracle Database Administration
• Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)
• Oracle Middleware (WebLogic/SOA)
• Cloud Migration
• Solution Architecture
• Database Modernization
• Hybrid Cloud
• Managed Services
• Azure Integration