OCI Cloud Architect, Financial Services

Oracle•United States,

2d•$147,300 - $243,800

About The Position

Oracle is seeking a Cloud Architect with direct financial services experience for its OCI Financial Services Cloud Engineering team in North America. The role helps banks, investment firms, insurers, payments companies, and financial technology providers evaluate and adopt Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, connecting cloud architecture to business outcomes such as faster research and risk calculations, resilient transaction processing, modern data platforms, and governed AI. Architectures must account for existing technology estates, including on-premises systems and other public clouds. This strategic presales role leads technical customer engagements from discovery through architecture, hands-on validation, and technical decision-making, and partners through adoption and operational handoff. The architect works with executives, application owners, platform engineers, and security and risk teams to define success and demonstrate whether proposed solutions meet customer needs. The role requires 10 or more years of relevant experience, including direct financial services experience or technology delivery to financial institutions. Candidates should bring expertise in at least one financial services domain and strong architecture and practical engineering skills on OCI or another major cloud platform. A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience is preferred; relevant cloud certifications are a plus. The stated U.S. hiring range is $147,300 to $243,800 per annum. The role may be eligible for equity and compensation deferral, and is eligible for commission with an estimated 70/30 pay mix. Oracle describes a comprehensive benefits package, including insurance, retirement, paid leave, parental leave, adoption assistance, and other benefits.

Requirements

10+ years of relevant experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure engineering, solution engineering, technical consulting, or enterprise architecture, including direct work within financial services or technology delivery to financial institutions.
Demonstrated depth in at least one financial services domain: banking, payments, capital markets, investment management, insurance, or financial technology; ability to explain a real workload, its business purpose, operational constraints, and architecture decisions.
Strong architecture and practical engineering skills on OCI, AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud, with ability to build OCI expertise; experience spanning compute, networking, storage, identity, security, and resilient application or data platforms.
Hands-on ability to deploy and troubleshoot cloud environments, use infrastructure as code, and automate with scripting or APIs; ability to investigate application, network, and storage bottlenecks and validate designs with evidence.
Experience navigating financial institutions’ architecture reviews, security assessments, change processes, and production-readiness requirements.
Understanding of shared responsibility and ability to translate control requirements into technical designs with relevant specialists.
Success leading complex customer or stakeholder engagements, aligning business and technical teams, communicating with senior leaders, and advancing decisions across organizational boundaries.

Nice To Haves

Experience with quantitative research, backtesting, Monte Carlo simulation, portfolio risk, CPU/GPU compute grids, workload schedulers, or market-data ingestion and analytics.
Experience with payments, transaction processing, reconciliation, banking integration, or financial software platforms, including event processing, idempotency, and recovery.
Experience with insurance and actuarial computing, financial data platforms, database modernization, or integration of enterprise and industry applications.
Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Linux, private connectivity, high-performance storage, or hybrid and multicloud operations.
Experience with AI and generative AI infrastructure, retrieval and inference, model evaluation, data protection, human oversight, and model-risk or AI-governance practices in financial services.
Experience with disaster recovery testing, recovery time and recovery point objectives, cloud economics, or mapping cloud controls to customer policies and industry frameworks.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Relevant cloud certifications.
Presales experience; practitioners moving into a customer-facing architecture role are also encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

Lead workload discovery with sales and customer teams, identifying business objectives, application dependencies, current performance and cost, control requirements, decision makers, and a path to technical acceptance.
Design OCI, hybrid, and multicloud architectures across compute, storage, networking, identity, security, containers, data platforms, and observability, explaining tradeoffs in performance, resilience, operational complexity, and total cost.
Build and lead workshops, demonstrations, proofs of concept, and benchmarks using representative workloads and approved data; agree on success criteria and document results, limitations, and customer decisions.
Apply financial services context to architecture decisions, including transaction correctness, peak demand, batch deadlines, data entitlements, recovery objectives, and dependencies on legacy and third-party systems.
Partner with customer security, risk, compliance, and operations teams on access controls, encryption and key management, data residency, audit evidence, resilience, and third-party technology reviews.
Develop technical proposals, infrastructure sizing, bills of materials, migration approaches, and business cases; include software licensing, connectivity, support, and operations in cost comparisons, and validate service availability and capacity with relevant teams.
Coordinate OCI specialists, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Consulting, and partners to resolve blockers and support transition from proof to adoption.
Present to technical and executive audiences, maintain engagement plans and next steps, and turn successful approaches into reusable reference architectures and team enablement.
Contribute to customer adoption and technical wins by partnering with delivery and success teams on operational readiness and deployment dependencies.
Build reusable financial services architectures, proof plans, and enablement for the wider team.