Oracle Cloud Solutions Architect

Highmark Health • Washington, DC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This role, specializing in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and PaaS solutions, is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, supporting, and optimizing architecture strategies to meet diverse business capabilities and needs. The Solutions Architect ensures the completeness of architecture by addressing all pertinent stakeholder concerns and maintains its integrity by connecting various stakeholder views, reconciling conflicting requirements, and transparently detailing trade-offs made. A practical and fit-for-purpose approach is essential when determining architectural solutions. Leveraging deep business and technology knowledge, this position enables and/or alters business processes, practices, organizations, and systems. The successful candidate will maintain knowledge of emerging technologies and best-in-class industry business trends and practices. Core Skills and Experience: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Expertise: Proficient in OCI Compute, Storage (Object Storage, Block Volumes), and Networking (VCNs, subnets, NSGs). Oracle PaaS Services: Strong experience with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), Autonomous Database (ADW, ATP), Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS), APEX, and WebLogic. Database Administration: Hands-on experience with Oracle Database administration and data transformation. Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in Shell/Bash scripting and Python. Java experience is a plus. Security & Compliance: Experience with IAM/Policy configuration, encryption, patching strategies, compliance, and audit processes. APIs & Integrations: Demonstrated experience with REST APIs and FDI SOAP. Performance Optimization: Proven ability in performance tuning, health checks, and cost tracking within Oracle Cloud environments. Core Skills and Experience: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Expertise: Proficient in OCI Compute, Storage (Object Storage, Block Volumes), and Networking (VCNs, subnets, NSGs). Oracle PaaS Services: Strong experience with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), Autonomous Database (ADW, ATP), Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS), APEX, and WebLogic. Database Administration: Hands-on experience with Oracle Database administration and data transformation. Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in Shell/Bash scripting and Python. Java experience is a plus. Security & Compliance: Experience with IAM/Policy configuration, encryption, patching strategies, compliance, and audit processes. APIs & Integrations: Demonstrated experience with REST APIs and FDI SOAP. Performance Optimization: Proven ability in performance tuning, health checks, and cost tracking within Oracle Cloud environments.

Requirements

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Expertise: Proficient in OCI Compute, Storage (Object Storage, Block Volumes), and Networking (VCNs, subnets, NSGs).
• Oracle PaaS Services: Strong experience with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), Autonomous Database (ADW, ATP), Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS), APEX, and WebLogic.
• Database Administration: Hands-on experience with Oracle Database administration and data transformation.
• Scripting & Automation: Proficiency in Shell/Bash scripting and Python. Java experience is a plus.
• Security & Compliance: Experience with IAM/Policy configuration, encryption, patching strategies, compliance, and audit processes.
• APIs & Integrations: Demonstrated experience with REST APIs and FDI SOAP.
• Performance Optimization: Proven ability in performance tuning, health checks, and cost tracking within Oracle Cloud environments.
• 3 years of experience in an IT discipline
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or closely related field

Nice To Haves

• Java experience is a plus.
• Master's degree
• Industry certifications
• Health insurance industry business knowledge

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing business processes, functions and organizational structures, as well as in researching, identifying and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements.
• Facilitate development of enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques.
• Participate in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases and business innovation portfolio development.
• Specifies and designs large or complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes.
• Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures that they are applied effectively.
• Reviews others’ system design to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• Establishes policy for selection of architecture components.
• Evaluates and undertakes impact analysis on major design options.
• Ensures that the system architecture balances functional, service quality and systems management requirements.
• Uses appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of architectures.
• Produces detailed component requirements, specifications and translates these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products.
• Provides advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and processes.
• Ensures that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied correctly.
• Selects and uses tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks.
• Identifies the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which complex products or systems will operate.
• Identifies, proposes, initiates, and leads significant improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits.
• Modifies existing process improvement approaches and/or develops new approaches to achieving improvement.
• Ensures the resolution of a variety of architecture and business problems/
• Communicates effectively will all levels of organization.
• Manages expectations of customers, partners and management.
• Participates in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walk-throughs; and problem resolution and decision making.
• Interacts with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of complex requirements for peers and other staff.
• Maintains an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provides advice regarding their application. The area of specific expertise may be any aspect of information or communication technology, technique, method, process, product, or application area:
• Provides leadership in the areas of expertise and architecture to peers, developers, management and business users including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training by:
• Preparing presentations on complex issues on the area of expertise:
• Presenting to their peers to ensure consistency to Highmark's strategic direction.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level