Senior Principle Pre Sales Consultant at Oracle Nigeria

Oracle, provides the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems, with more than 370,000 customers including 100 of the Fortune 100 representing a variety of sizes and industries in more than 145 countries around the globe. Oracle's product strategy provides flexibility and choice to our customers across their IT infrastructure. Now, with Sun server, storage, operating-system, and virtualization technology, Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is integrated to work together as a single system. In addition, Oracle's open architecture and multiple operating-system options gives our customers unmatched benefits from industry-leading products, including excellent system availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership.

We are recruiting to fill the below position:

Job Title: Senior Principle Pre Sales Consultant

Job ID: 150014BK
Location: Lagos

Preferred Qualifications

• The Presales Consultant will provide the technical leadership and business consultative services during pre and post sales cycle.
• This role is a key resource in the definition of feasible Solution Architecture and their validation through a functional proof of concept or successful delivery of projects to realize the full value of the Oracle product technology footprint.
• This role requires an in-depth understanding of the client's business, its operating model and business challenges, together with the technology available for creating a fully integrated, successful business solution.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops strategies, policies and best practices to our customers
• Develops and cultivates strong client relationships
• Provides technical leadership during the implementation of an engagement
• Participates in the installation and integration of an Oracle solution
• Total awareness of existing or potential clients technology and business platform (software/systems)
• Proactively alerts relevant team of potential problems and solutions
• Knowledgeable of competitors' products
• Supports the design and development of the technical content defined in the statement of work
• Designs the Oracle Systems solution and prepares the technical architecture and implementation design documents
• Develops and articulates solutions based on a client's strategic business and technical requirements
• Leads project quality assurance activities, including performing Quality Assurance reviews
• Defines and manages the overall technical solution for a technology project covering both functional and non-functional requirements across multiple teams
• Provides input to system capacity planning activity, and provides sizing and design of the infrastructure
• Provides status reports to senior stakeholders
• Acts as evangelist for Oracle Red Stack and our ability to deliver technical infrastructure that will support it
• Works closely with Sales, Presales and Support
• Contributes to the generation and maintenance of Value Propositions of the solution
• Supports the account team in providing real-world experience, references, and credibility to the customer regarding the feasibility of the proposed solution.

Qualifications

• Cloud technology
• Experience in Enterprise Integration across Telecoms and FSI
• At least 10 years Systems Integration experience
• Experience in complex design and integration
• Very good interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately at all levels from Senior Executive to Systems Administration
• An understanding of the stakeholder political pressures on clients and projects
• Ability to monitor and deal with critical paths and risks areas
• Exposures to Architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, Zachman, Oracle Enterprise Architecture Framework or in-house
• Takes ownership and demonstrates initiative through problem identification and resolution
• Have in-depth conceptual functional and non-functional knowledge of: Networking, Server Operating systems internals, benchmarking and performance, CPU architecture (Intel, SPARC) and Server Virtualization, Storage, Databases, Middleware.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
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