Oracle
Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer - Working in Vienna VA
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Vienna, VA, United States
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Principal
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of IT experience with at least 8 years in solution architecture.
- Strong experience designing enterprise cloud solutions.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Strong understanding of networking concepts including routing, load balancing, VPN, FastConnect, DNS, firewalls, and hybrid connectivity.
- Experience with Linux and Windows platforms.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
- Strong understanding of identity and access management, encryption, and cloud security best practices.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience supporting financial institutions or highly regulated industries.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
- Experience designing multi-region disaster recovery solutions.
- Knowledge of Zero Trust architecture principles.
- Enterprise Architecture
- Cloud Solution Design
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Hybrid Cloud
- Network Architecture
- Security Architecture
- Disaster Recovery
- High Availability
- DevOps & Automation
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Technical Leadership
- Stakeholder Customer Management
- Documentation & Architecture Governance
Full description
We are looking for a highly skilled Solution Architect to join our team supporting a strategic customer's cloud transformation initiatives. The Solution Architect will be responsible for designing enterprise-grade technology solutions that enable business capabilities while ensuring security, scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
The successful candidate will collaborate with business leaders, application teams, infrastructure engineers, SaaS Product and Consulting teams, and cloud platform providers to develop solution architectures that align with enterprise standards and long-term technology strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and design sessions for enterprise applications, platform and infrastructure.
- Translate business and technical requirements into scalable solution architectures.
- Design secure, highly available, and resilient cloud solutions using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Develop architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and implementation guidance.
- Evaluate existing environments and recommend modernization strategies.
- Define networking architectures including VCNs, DRGs, Load Balancers, DNS, security zones, and hybrid connectivity.
- Establish shared observability frameworks and rollout policies adopted by numerous teams; manage deprecation risk.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, database, DevOps, and application development teams throughout project delivery.
- Conduct architecture reviews and provide governance throughout the project lifecycle.
- Identify technical risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Support disaster recovery, business continuity, and high-availability solution designs.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to existing architectures.
- Mentor engineering teams on architecture best practices and cloud-native design patterns.
- Collaborates with stakeholders internally and externally to lead efforts to understand customer issues, root causes, and mitigation to align and explain rationale behind solutions.
- Must provide expert technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues to mitigate recurrence.
- Acts as an advisor to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements and solutions based on feedback.
- Networks across lines of business to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
- Leads project initiatives for periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).
- Acts as subject matter expert to drive improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.