Architect: Managed Services at Oracle

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OCI Managed Services focuses on the capabilities customers need to run, migrate, and scale sophisticated applications on OCI without substantial redesign. The portfolio spans managed application and data services—including Managed Kafka, OCI Streaming, OCI Queue, OpenSearch, Workflow as a Service, and Managed Temporal—alongside Resource Intelligence capabilities that help customers discover, understand, optimize, govern, and automate their OCI resources. The team also shapes the shared platform primitives that enable managed services to operate reliably at scale, including emerging capabilities for data movement and distributed systems.This is a workload- and capability-driven organization. Success is measured not only by the adoption of an individual service, but by the larger database, AI, application, and migration workloads that service enables across OCI. Role Details OCI is seeking a senior Architect to help define the next generation of Managed Services for distributed applications and workloads. The central challenge is ambitious: enable customers to move sophisticated applications to OCI without substantial redesign because critical platform capabilities are missing.This is a broad technical leadership role, not ownership of a single service. You will shape architecture across messaging, streaming, Kafka, workflow, search, resource intelligence, and the underlying distributed-system primitives that make these services reliable and reusable. You will work from customer and workload requirements downward—determining what OCI should build, extend, adopt, reuse, or simplify. Exciting Opportunity This role offers unusual technical scope and agency. Many of the most important architectural decisions are still open: which capabilities should become shared platform primitives, how managed services should work together, where OCI can create differentiated value, and how existing systems must evolve to support more demanding workloads at greater scale.You will help create the technical foundation that enables database, AI, application, and migration workloads across OCI. The work spans deep distributed-systems challenges in availability, durability, consistency, latency, multi-tenancy, and operability, alongside the opportunity to establish patterns and mechanisms that improve how multiple teams build and operate services. What You Will Do • Define technical direction and architecture across OCI Managed Services and shared distributed-system capabilities. • Translate ambiguous customer and workload requirements into clear technical strategy, architecture, and execution priorities. • Drive pragmatic build, adopt, extend, reuse, and simplify decisions across a broad service portfolio. • Lead the evolution of production systems, addressing architectural limits, technical debt, operational risk, and scale without disrupting customers. • Partner with engineering leaders across messaging, streaming, workflow, search, resource intelligence, and adjacent platform teams. • Establish reusable architecture, interfaces, patterns, and technical mechanisms adopted across multiple teams. • Drive decisions involving partitioning, replication, consistency, durability, failure handling, backpressure, latency, capacity, and customer isolation. • Improve operational resilience through thoughtful design for observability, deployment, upgrades, incident response, cost, and operational toil. • Mentor engineers and architects, strengthening technical depth and multiplying the effectiveness of the broader organization. • Influence across organizational boundaries through technical judgment, clear communication, and a strong point of view. Basic Qualifications • Extensive experience designing or materially evolving distributed systems at meaningful scale. • Demonstrated ability to explain the architecture, tradeoffs, and outcomes of systems you personally designed or changed. • Experience evolving live, customer-facing systems while maintaining reliability and minimizing disruption. • Strong technical breadth across service APIs, distributed architecture, storage, compute, networking, and operational characteristics. • Experience solving high-scale, highly available, low-latency, or high-throughput problems. • Proven ability to move from an ambiguous customer or business problem to a practical technical solution. • Demonstrated influence across multiple engineering teams without relying on formal authority. • Strong written and verbal communication skills. Preferred Qualifications • Experience in cloud infrastructure, messaging, streaming, workflow, search, databases, control planes, advertising systems, financial infrastructure, payments, or comparable distributed environments. • Experience making build-versus-buy, open-source adoption, platform reuse, or service-integration decisions. • Experience creating architecture, technical mechanisms, or engineering practices adopted across multiple teams. • Experience with managed services, multi-tenant platforms, or developer-facing cloud products. • Background in hyperscale cloud infrastructure or another environment with demanding availability, correctness, and performance requirements. Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements. Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only US: Hiring Range in USD from: $169,800 to $355,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following: 1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion 2. Short term disability and long term disability 3. Life insurance and AD&D 4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) 5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts 6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits 7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match 8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation. 9. 11 paid holidays 10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours. 11. Paid parental leave 12. Adoption assistance 13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan 14. Financial planning and group legal 15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. Career Level - IC6 We’re looking for an experienced Software Architect to lead the evolution of one of OCI’s most critical platform services—a high-scale workflow orchestration engine responsible for coordinating the creation of cloud resources across compute, storage, networking, and other foundational services.

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Define technical direction and architecture across OCI Managed Services and shared distributed-system capabilities.
Translate ambiguous customer and workload requirements into clear technical strategy, architecture, and execution priorities.
Drive pragmatic build, adopt, extend, reuse, and simplify decisions across a broad service portfolio.
Lead the evolution of production systems, addressing architectural limits, technical debt, operational risk, and scale without disrupting customers.
Partner with engineering leaders across messaging, streaming, workflow, search, resource intelligence, and adjacent platform teams.
Establish reusable architecture, interfaces, patterns, and technical mechanisms adopted across multiple teams.
Drive decisions involving partitioning, replication, consistency, durability, failure handling, backpressure, latency, capacity, and customer isolation.
Improve operational resilience through thoughtful design for observability, deployment, upgrades, incident response, cost, and operational toil.
Mentor engineers and architects, strengthening technical depth and multiplying the effectiveness of the broader organization.
Influence across organizational boundaries through technical judgment, clear communication, and a strong point of view.
Extensive experience designing or materially evolving distributed systems at meaningful scale.
Demonstrated ability to explain the architecture, tradeoffs, and outcomes of systems you personally designed or changed.
Experience evolving live, customer-facing systems while maintaining reliability and minimizing disruption.
Strong technical breadth across service APIs, distributed architecture, storage, compute, networking, and operational characteristics.
Experience solving high-scale, highly available, low-latency, or high-throughput problems.
Proven ability to move from an ambiguous customer or business problem to a practical technical solution.
Demonstrated influence across multiple engineering teams without relying on formal authority.

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Experience in cloud infrastructure, messaging, streaming, workflow, search, databases, control planes, advertising systems, financial infrastructure, payments, or comparable distributed environments.
Experience making build-versus-buy, open-source adoption, platform reuse, or service-integration decisions.
Experience creating architecture, technical mechanisms, or engineering practices adopted across multiple teams.
Experience with managed services, multi-tenant platforms, or developer-facing cloud products.
Background in hyperscale cloud infrastructure or another environment with demanding availability, correctness, and performance requirements.

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