Cloud Solution Engineer - KSA Market

Job Summary

Customer aligned, the ACE role is responsible for customer lifecycle from project concept to usage and expansion within the customer. Drives alignment with the Cloud Sales Rep, working as a team within the customer to define and drive sales strategy, find and win new workloads, and conduct technical due diligence to achieve the “Technical Win.” Maintains an awareness of the customer’s infrastructure and is highly technically competent - Advises on new workloads. Move & Improve orchestrates the technical teams/skills required to ensure our technology is driving customer business outcomes and sustainable usage/growth. Builds the consumption plan for and with the customer. Works with the Cloud Adoption Manager to ensure customer adoption health & customer experience.

Roles & Responsibilities

The ACE will orchestrate all technical activity in the account and is always in the leading position for presales activities. Actively involved in the Oracle account team in defining account strategy, executing, and driving consumption growth. Is accountable for the successful experience of customer(s) in their territory. Understands customers' overall portfolio, IT and business priorities and establishes a solution that addresses customer needs.

1. Drive effectiveness and impact in the way we engage with customers, becoming a customer Trusted Advisor.
2. Informs customers/prospects on Oracle emerging technologies and how they will create value and competitive differentiation.
3. Presents Oracle's technology demonstrating deep familiarity with infrastructure, security, and integration capabilities.
4. Acts as the customer single point of contact for cloud engineering related aspects.
5. Engages the Oracle Cloud technology team, leading the virtual team to support in creating the solution, designing architecture, and delivering POC, tailored technical workshops during the sales cycle.
6. Leads activities and teams to help position the value of Oracle’s Cloud and continually meet customer expectations.

Skills & Profile

Broad technical experience of Cloud Infrastructure and Platform solutions along with a strong understanding of cloud architecture. Knowledge of Oracle platform services and cloud infrastructure would be a strong advantage.

• Demonstrates leadership capability including the ability to delegate activities & involve the right teams/skills sets.
• Clearly able to articulate the Cloud offerings in the market and with the ability to discuss architectures.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for a group with a high degree of comfort speaking across all levels of management (e.g., IT management, Architects, administrators, and executives).
• Experience in understanding complex customer ecosystems with the ability to translate customer needs into workable solutions.
• Familiar with 3rd party and Oracle Architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, ECal).
• High level of commercial business understanding.
• Intelligence to identify key trends and insights and leverage them in driving decision making and execution within the customer.
• Experience in engaging and influencing stakeholders. Ability to build relationships to grow business. Act as a partner to our customers, not just a vendor.

Career Level

Responsible for participating in customer engagements to collaboratively design and implement solutions. May work directly with customers to gather requirements, develop architectures and translate business needs into solutions. Implements solutions and ensures successful deployments through code development and scripting. Displays product/application understanding through more customized presentation demonstrations to customers and at conferences and events. Supports customers from Proof of Concept (POC) through production deployment of services via resource configuration, planning, and customer education/training. Creates and distributes technical assets (white papers, solution code, blog posts, and video demonstrations). Serves as a technical point of contact for customers and sales on technical cloud solutions and customer success. Further builds business and technical acumen.