Principal Presales Cloud Architect – Enterprise

Company: Oracle
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Location: Bengaluru
Job Description:

Oracle is seeking a senior enterprise cloud architect to drive presales solutioning and technical engagement for large enterprise customers on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This is an individual contributor role requiring strong technical depth, executive presence, and hands-on engagement across customer leadership, architects, developers, and operations teams.

Experience & Qualifications

  • 12+ years of overall IT experience with strong enterprise customer-facing experience (Presales, Solution Architecture, Consulting).
  • Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) (experience on AWS/Azure/GCP is acceptable).
  • Proven experience working with large, complex enterprise environments.
  • Deep expertise in Infrastructure, Applications, or Data platforms with clear exposure to AI-enabled architectures and use-cases.
  • Strong executive communication, whiteboarding, and storytelling skills (must-have).
  • Comfortable engaging across levels – from business leaders to architects, developers, and ops teams.
  • Technical Skills

  • OCI IaaS / PaaS, hybrid cloud and migration patterns.
  • Enterprise networking, security, high availability, and DR on OCI.
  • Modern data platforms, analytics, and data-driven architectures.
  • Generative AI and agentic architecture concepts; ability to support discovery, pilots, and production workloads.
  • Cloud-native applications, containers, Kubernetes, DevOps, and IaC.
  • Enterprise database exposure; Oracle Database / Exadata (Preferred).
  • Exposure to open-source and commercial databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL).
  • General understanding of enterprise SaaS and core business systems preferred.
  • Preferred

  • Cloud certifications (OCI preferred).
  • Enterprise experience in BFSI, Healthcare, Large Enterprise Accounts

    The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in one core area – Infrastructure, Applications, or Data – with strong working knowledge across the others, and clear exposure to AI-enabled architectures and use cases.

    Key Responsibilities

  • Own enterprise cloud architecture and solution design for OCI across presales engagements.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor to CIOs, CTOs, Chief Architects, and Data & AI leaders.
  • Work closely with application architects, developers, and operations teams to validate designs and adoption approaches.
  • Partner with Sales to shape and close complex enterprise cloud opportunities.
  • Design enterprise cloud architectures supporting infrastructure takeouts – on-premises and non-OCI cloud migrations to OCI, modern applications, data platforms, and AI-enabled workloads.
  • Engage business and technology leaders to discover, pilot, and productionize AI (including agentic) use cases that deliver measurable ROI.
  • Drive executive presentations, whiteboarding sessions, and architecture discussions.
  • Support sizing, capacity planning, and TCO/ROI conversations.
  • Travel up to 25%.

    Career Level – IC4

    Posted: February 9th, 2026