DescriptionOracle Solution Center is a diverse, innovative Global team working on the absolute latest technologies in cloud and multi cloud computing and on-prem environments. We assist Sales in providing pre-sales support around architectural and technical expertise to provide a space for Oracle customers and account teams to bring the solutions proposed to life to convince them to invest in Oracle products. The individual should be dedicated, driven and an experienced Professional. Ideally have a good understanding of all the underlying infrastructure at the heart of Oracles Cloud computing.
The unifying characteristics of the position are a well-grounded, hands-on understanding of OCI especially DBaaS with a sprinkle of IaaS and PaaS and Cloud@Customer, an eagerness to learn quickly, and apply new technologies and services. Ideal candidates thrive on variety and innovation in their daily work, on interaction with customers and account teams who are world-renowned leaders in their fields and working with a wide range of technologies (open-source and vendor-supported) in a decentralized non-standard environment.
If you are interested in highly technical hands-on challenges, in delivering the following customer facing activities with real life scenario:
- Demonstrate the strength and credibility of Oracle's Core Technology, Data Integration, Cloud & Multi-Cloud and Engineered Systems products and solutions
- Engage with customers and position Oracle's strategic propositions to their best advantage through technical presentations, white board/round table discussions, 'hands-on' technical product workshops and Proof Of Concepts or performance test
This job is for you.
Career Level - IC4
Responsibilities DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design, build and deliver customer demonstrations and technology workshops to articulate, update and evangelize Oracle based technical and product solutions
- Participate in or lead customer specific Proof of Concepts or performance tests
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Articulate the credibility of Oracle's Core Technology, Cloud and Engineered Systems products and solutions, from technical to board level, with a particular focus on key decision makers in the customers' organization
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Ability to deliver interactively, without a pre-defined script, & answering questions & demonstrating ‘how’ an issue can be solved
- Ability to understand the competitive landscape, recognize and communicate opportunities to up-sell based on product expertise
- A thorough understanding of relevant Technical Architectures, their applicability to Oracle's customers, combined their comparative advantages/disadvantages.
- Liaise with Oracle eco-system :
- Account Teams and Sales Consulting to understand customer needs & pains
- Product teams to learn and master new product features, absorb new technologies
- Contribute to Sales Consulting communities and cross lob co-operation
- be fluent in Arabic and English language (1 more EMEA language would be nice to have)
EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE REQUIREMENTS
- Possess between 5-10 years Oracle core Database & Options knowledge and skills, including:
- the following options, Real Application Clusters, Partitioning, Disaster Recovery (Active DataGuard), DB Multi-tenant and DB security.
- Oracle Clusterware and DB installation, configuration, troubleshooting, monitoring and performance tuning
- Oracle’s Enterprise Manager and Data Integration Solutions (Golden Gate and Oracle Data Integrator)
- Hands on experience of Exadata Database machine installation, configuration, troubleshooting, monitoring and performance tuning on the following deployment scenario : on Premises, Cloud@Customer, OCI, Hybrid- and Multi-Cloud
- Possess In excess of 3 years Oracle’s cloud offering and skills, including, at least, IaaS & PaaS (related to DB & Management).
- Azure or AWS or Google cloud offering expertise and hands-on experience
The above, mandatory technical skills will have been gained in a front-line customer facing hands-on role, Sales Consulting, Consulting, Advanced Customer Services for example