Architect, OCI Chief Technical Architect Office

Architect, OCI Chief Technical Architect Office

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation of hyperscale cloud services. As an Architect in the Chief Technical Architect Office, you will define and drive architectural direction for core cloud services that operate at global scale. This role requires deep distributed systems expertise, strong design judgment, and the ability to influence engineering execution across multiple teams.

You will work directly with senior engineering leadership (VPs, SVPs & EVPs), serving as a trusted technical advisor on system design, platform evolution, and long-term strategy. Your work will enable OCI to deliver highly reliable, scalable, secure, and performant cloud services used across internal teams and customer workloads.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end cloud services, focusing on reliability, scalability, performance, security, and global availability.
• Define core architectural patterns and frameworks across control plane, data plane, observability, and operational safety.
• Lead multi-team engineering initiatives, influencing hundreds of engineers across OCI platform groups.
• Ensure operational and performance excellence for services running at hyperscale.
• Drive cross-functional technical alignment with Product, SRE, Security, and partner engineering teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders, raising engineering quality and architectural rigor.
• Shape long-term platform and cloud strategy, contributing to OCI’s next-generation cloud vision.

Candidate Profile

• Extensive experience architecting, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior-level engineering and product leaders.
• Strong systems design skills with the ability to simplify complexity and drive architectural clarity.
• Deep understanding of reliability engineering, performance optimization, multitenancy, and cloud service design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong executive presence.
• Experience driving large, cross-organizational engineering initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of software engineering experience with increasing scope and ownership.
• Demonstrated experience architecting large-scale distributed systems (preferably in cloud infrastructure).
• Strong experience with messaging, streaming, or event-driven architectures.
• Hands-on background building high-performance services, including API design, control-plane development, and data-plane implementation.
• Proven ability to lead complex, multi-team engineering initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to influence executive stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in hyperscaler or large-scale cloud environments (Oracle, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Background leading engineering organizations of 100+ people (direct or matrixed).
• Deep understanding of cloud security, DevOps, SRE, observability, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Prior ownership of services used by internal/external developers across a cloud platform.

Key skills/competency

• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Architecture
• System Design
• Scalability & Reliability
• Performance Optimization
• Cross-functional Leadership
• Technical Advisory
• OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure)
• Event-Driven Architectures
• Cloud Security