Technical Lead and Architect

As part of DXC Technology, the Oracle Practice offers speed and agility with thought leadership on a global scale. This allows us to design and deliver innovative market-leading solutions that enable clients to transform their businesses and the broader market. Oracle has globally recognised DXC’s expertise and skills by accrediting us as an Oracle Platinum Partner, Oracle Cloud Select Partner and Cloud Managed Service Provider.

The Technical Lead and Architect will provide technical leadership and support technical teams to deliver consulting and managed services projects to a wide range of customers locally in Australia and New Zealand as a key member of our Architecture, Platform and Technology Practice. This role includes billable, business development, and relationship management activities.
- Lead technical teams to deliver low-risk projects / work packages;
- Develop complex Technical Architecture Solutions to meet client requirements;
- Be the authoritative source and lead customers through technical engagements through leading the solution design and implementation aspects of InfraTech projects / work packages;
- Accountable for the quality and the deliverables of the technical team;
- Work with the Project Manager to contribute to project planning and estimation within customer constraints;
- Provide governance and oversight across projects / work packages;
- Financial, risk and issue management for low risk projects/work packages;
- Provide coaching, guidance and feedback to develop skills of team members;
- Acts as the trusted advisor and build strong and profitable relationships with customers, including meeting customers on-site;
- Recommend proactive steps for efficiencies and continual service improvement for our managed services customers;
- Identify Growth Opportunities and collaborate with Account Leadership, DXC Sales & Solution teams to progress those opportunities;
- Work with our presales team and contribute to the development of proposals to meet customer requirements, including responding to tenders;
- Conduct solution planning & delivery aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive customer improvements;
- Shaping/solutioning opportunities in a pre-sales capacity by demonstrating knowledge and Industry expertise;
- Provide input into the development of Statement of Works pricing cases and project schedules;
- Lead and facilitate workshops with customers onsite or via MS Teams to articulate the value proposition of the product/solution;

**Qualifications**
- Excellent technical design skills across database, Engineered Systems, Infrastructure and Cloud (preferably OCI, AWS and Azure)
- Strong technical background
- Strong experience in designing and migrating workloads and databases to OCI, especially large work packages
- Experience presenting and delivering appropriate technical / product solutions
- Experience working successfully with management teams to deploy initiatives aligned to business objectives
- A proven track record of leading, coaching and motivating technical teams including working with third parties/vendors
- An ability to
- multitask, meet tight deadlines and complete all tasks as scheduled
- work independently and within a team environment
- think strategically and consider broader implications
- works well under pressure
- works in a customer facing environment with strong leadership, negotiation and presentation skills
- communicate effectively with others who are outside field of expertise
- Very strong analytical skills and the ability to make quick and accurate decisions
- Excellent written skills and experience delivering technical design documents and white papers to customers
- Excellent verbal communication skills including presentation skills, and ability to change communication style based on the audience (i.e., from technical to non-technical audience)
- Consulting experience in providing support and implementation services with the ability to build lasting positive customer relationships, takes ownership in maintaining quality of service and recommending areas of improvement
- 15+ years of industry experience, including 2+ years in pre-sales or consulting
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience preferred

**Highly Desirable skills**
- Experience managing databases on engineered systems, such as Exadata and Oracle Database Appliance (ODA)
- Experience with administering or migrating databases on/to AWS, Azure, Exadata Cloud at Customer or on PaaS environments.
- Experience implementing and administering Single Sign-on and Identity Management solutions integrated with Oracle Database and Oracle Applications
- Preparing and presenting Pre-Sales solutions
- Project Management experience; managing successful projects and large-scale business initiatives

**DXC Culture & Benefits**

DXC Technology is dedicated to ‘putting its people first’. We offer competitive remuneration; benefits, training and career opportunities and a culture