Job Openings at Oracle

Preferred Qualifications
 
Senior Customer Experience (CX) Cloud Territory Sales Rep

Are you as passionate about the Cloud as we are?  If so, we want to talk to you!

Oracle already offers the broadest suite of cloud solutions and is introducing innovative new services every month. In applications, Oracle offers more enterprise cloud solutions than anyone else. In platform, the #1 database and middleware worldwide is now available in the cloud.

If you are looking to take the next step in your career by offering great effective, efficient, and commercially viable solutions to your clients, then one of our CX Cloud sales roles could be your springboard to success.

We need you to be passionate, entrepreneurial, collaborative, a problem solver who thinks on their feet, who is innovative, has sold enterprise level software and believes in being consultative and having fun whilst you work.

Experience in selling across all industry verticals would be highly prized for this role.

Having a sense of humour in what can be a pressure environment helps, and the rewards for your contribution include a highly competitive base salary, commission and benefits package plus a continuous training program in a structured environment that is world class.

Responsibilities

• Establish professional and deep relationships with key personnel in assigned customer accounts
• Lead account planning process that develops account strategy, financial targets, and critical milestones
• Lead and manage the end-to-end sales process through engagement of appropriate resources such as Pre-Sales Consultants, Oracle Consulting, Executives, and Partners
• Deep understanding of customer's business environment, and proactively assess, clarify, and validate customer needs on an ongoing basis
• Pipeline development through a combination of phone calls, email campaigns, and market sector knowledge/intelligence
• Create and maintain a sales pipeline to hit and surpass goals within designated market sectors
• Engage with prospect organizations to position Oracle solutions through strategic value-based selling, business case definition, ROI analysis, references, and analyst data
• Generate short-term results whilst maintaining long-term perspective to maximize overall revenue generation
• Accurate quarterly forecasting and revenue delivery
• Required Skills
• Extensive experience selling enterprise CX or similar client-interaction software solutions with a major software vendor, business partner or consulting company
• Successful history of net-new direct business sales with proven ability to consistently deliver against targets
• Credibility at all levels, including CXO
• Strong relationships in the South African territory
• Good written, verbal, and presentation skills plus an active listener
• Creative with strong problem solving skills and the ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment while focusing on the detail
• Proven ability to work well as part of an extended sales team including collaborating and potentially leading cross line-of-business opportunities.
• You will sell the business benefits of Oracle’s Cloud Customer Experience solution to business and technology executives. Only Oracle offers a complete and integrated CRM solution that breaks down silos to deliver a seamless customer experience across all touchpoints.

Go ahead, amaze us.

• When you provide the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems and work with all 100 of the Fortune 100, you have pretty high standards.  That’s why at Oracle, we seek only the top sales talent to join our team. In return, we provide the opportunity for you to showcase your talent as you enjoy the rewards of selling technology that is the envy of the industry. Join us and be part of the best sales force in the business.
• Change is good. This change is even better.
• If you feel like you’ve hit the ceiling of your current job, join the company whose potential is virtually limitless. Oracle is the global leader in advanced business software, hardware and middleware solutions.  In fact, we help drive the success of all 100 companies in the Fortune 100.  If you’re a highly ambitious sales professional looking for more from your career, we’d like to help drive your success too.
• As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, prior to an offer being made. This will involve identity and employment verification, salary verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable)

 
Detailed Description and Job Requirements
 
Sells a subset of product or services directly or via partners to a large number of named accounts/non-named accounts/geographical territory (mainly Tier 3 accounts).

• Primary job duty is to sell business applications software/solutions and related services to prospective and existing customers. Manage sales through forecasting, account resource allocation, account strategy, and planning. Develop solution proposals encompassing all aspects of the application. Participate in the development, presentation and sales of a value proposition. Negotiate pricing and contractual agreement to close the sale. Identify and develop strategic alignment with key third party influencers.
• Job duties are varied and complex, needing independent judgment. May have project lead role. 5 years field sales experience with focus on large strategic accounts including applications sales experience. Highly developed selling, customer relations and negotiation skills. Successful sales track record. Oracle knowledge and/or knowledge of Oracle*s competitors. Interaction with C level players. Team player. Ability to penetrate accounts and meet with stakeholders within accounts. Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills. Presentation skills. Travel may be needed. Bachelor degree or equivalent.

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

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Preferred Qualifications
 
ERP & HCM Cloud Applications Sales Representative – Public Sector

Are you as passionate about the Cloud as we are?  If so, we want to talk to you!

• Oracle already offers the broadest suite of cloud solutions and is introducing innovative new services every month. In applications, Oracle offers more enterprise cloud solutions than anyone else. In platform, the #1 database and middleware worldwide is now available in the cloud.
• We need you to be passionate, entrepreneurial, collaborative, a problem solver who thinks on their feet, who is innovative, has sold enterprise-level software, and believes in being consultative and having fun whilst you work.
• Having a sense of humour in what can be a pressure environment helps, and the rewards for your contribution include a highly competitive base salary, commission and benefits package plus a continuous training program in a structured environment that is world-class.

GOAL:

• To develop and maintain the long-term relationship between Oracle and designated customers to support Applications Cloud/SaaS revenue growth. Works towards an allocated License and Applications Cloud/SaaS (software as a service) sales revenue target in South Africa.

SCOPE:

• Reports to Applications Sales Director    
• Has no direct reports, but leads the activities of virtual teams in support of customers
• Works in a designated industry on a defined customer list and cooperates with his Technology Sales Representative counterpart as well as Senior Apps Account Manager
• Works to identify and cover all organisations (including existing Oracle customers) that fall into their designated account list focusing on building a strong pipeline and closing opportunities in a timely fashion in the region.
• Works with appropriate Oracle Partners, i.e. resellers, SI's, ISV's, technology partners, and alliances
• Works with Pre Sales, Marketing and other Lines of Business (LOBs) to maximize the return from the assigned set of accounts
• Works towards an allocated License sales and Applications Cloud/SaaS (software as a service) sales revenue target

 RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Winning new ERP & HCM license and Applications Cloud/SaaS sales revenue in line with targets
• Facilitating and nurturing Senior Management relationships to generate active sponsorship of Oracle
• Developing a strategy and sales plan to address Sector requirements
• Developing profiles of targeted accounts
• Defining appropriate Enterprise Sales Industry Value Propositions
• Driving the implementation of sales and marketing campaigns
• Generating and following up on leads  
• Qualifying leads and prioritising opportunities  
• Marshalling internal and Partner resources to conduct campaigns
• Identifying and working with the appropriate people in Oracle and the Customer
• Developing, extending, and maintaining relationships with the appropriate staff
• Facilitating and nurturing Senior Management relationships to generate active sponsorship of Oracle
• Working with, and influencing the activities of Oracle Partners as appropriate
• Maintaining an understanding of Oracle's strategic direction and interpreting its relevance to the industry sector
• Maintaining an awareness of Oracle's current and future application/technology products and services
• Maintaining an understanding of competitive activity relevant to the industry sector (Public Sector)
   

 KNOWLEDGE AND COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS

• At least 7 years of sales experience in the enterprise IT sector
• Excellent relationships within the Public Sector industry in South Africa
• Proven track record of selling complex IT enterprise solutions
• Understanding and experience of selling Cloud solutions is a plus
• Capacity to comprehend the strategic issues of selling Enterprise applications solutions, including ERP & HCM
• Fluent in English is a must
• Demonstrable overachievement of revenue goals
• Strong desire to overachieve revenue goals
• Strong sales skills; including business justification, negotiation, and closing
• Understanding of the enterprise software market
• Self-starter, fast learner, and hungry for knowledge and information
• Fully aware of technology trends, industry standards, and terminology
• Excellent account management and organisational skills
• Team player
• Hunter profile, drives to close opportunities

Go ahead, amaze us.

• When you provide the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems and work with all 100 of the Fortune 100, you have pretty high standards.  That’s why at Oracle, we seek only the top sales talent to join our team. In return, we provide the opportunity for you to showcase your talent as you enjoy the rewards of selling technology that is the envy of the industry. Join us and be part of the best sales force in the business.

Change is good.  This change is even better.

• If you feel like you’ve hit the ceiling of your current job, join the company whose potential is virtually limitless. Oracle is the global leader in advanced business software, hardware and middleware solutions.  In fact, we help drive the success of all 100 companies in the Fortune 100.  If you’re a highly ambitious sales professional looking for more from your career, we’d like to help drive your success too.

As part of Oracle’s employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, prior to an offer being made. This will involve identity and employment verification, salary verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable)

 
Detailed Description and Job Requirements
 
Sells a subset of product or services directly or via partners to a large number of named accounts/non-named accounts/geographical territory (mainly Tier 3 accounts).

Primary job duty is to sell business applications software/solutions and related services to prospective and existing customers. Manage sales through forecasting, account resource allocation, account strategy, and planning. Develop solution proposals encompassing all aspects of the application. Participate in the development, presentation and sales of a value proposition. Negotiate pricing and contractual agreement to close the sale. Identify and develop strategic alignment with key third party influencers.

Job duties are varied and complex, needing independent judgment. May have project lead role. 5 years field sales experience with focus on large strategic accounts including applications sales experience. Highly developed selling, customer relations and negotiation skills. Successful sales track record. Oracle knowledge and/or knowledge of Oracle*s competitors. Interaction with C level players. Team player. Ability to penetrate accounts and meet with stakeholders within accounts. Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills. Presentation skills. Travel may be needed. Bachelor degree or equivalent.

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Preferred Qualifications
 
ERPM Applications Sales Executive – Manufacturing, Retail and Distribution

Oracle is leading the digital revolution. We are empowering nearly half a million businesses across the globe to turn untapped potential into real business value. You will connect the biggest enterprises of today with the tools to compete in the digital economy of tomorrow.

Description
If you are looking to take the next step in your career by increasing Oracle's presence in the South African market, offering great, effective, efficient, and commercially viable SaaS solutions to clients, then this senior cloud sales role could be your springboard to success.

In today’s economic environment, businesses are under extreme pressure to increase revenue and drive profitability, while decreasing costs, optimizing resource utilization and increasing corporate governance. Companies need systems to improve the way they run their business: quicker decisions, better control, bigger revenues, and better relationships with suppliers & customers.

If you want to

Engage in C level business discussions
Represent the ERP, EPM, and SCM Cloud Leader in Gartner's report
Be disruptive, be differentiated against your competition
Work in a territory that is already laden with opportunity
Profit from the best resources in the market (pre-sales, consulting, marketing, executives, )
Engage with partners who have sound solutions
Talk to business people about value and outcomes
Required Skills/Experience
What You’ll Bring
Your enthusiasm, knowledge, and customer-centricity will help us become the number one cloud company in the world. 
We also look for:

5+ years of SaaS sales experience
Customer needs analysis, consultative selling, sales process acumen
Knowledge of the needs and trends on the market
Competitive Awareness
Successful sales track record
Bachelor degree or equivalent
Ability to offer a unique perspective by reframing and challenging the way customers view their business; know how to structure a sales pitch to highlight customer benefits before supplier strengths
Adept at driving two-way communication by clearly articulating value proposition and teaching to customer’s pain points
Quickly develop a deep knowledge of customer’s business and discuss issues from multiple angles
Track economic and industry activity and understands its implications on customer business
Understand the decision-making process and have the ability to influence key decision-makers
Experience selling cloud solutions or consulting services to enterprise and mid-market companies
Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing, progressive organization
Ability to work independently and with a team, and in an efficient and organized manner
Experience leveraging social media to drive contacts
Ability to accurately forecast, report and successfully close new business
Business development, prospecting and strong presentation skills
Fluent in English 
A career at Oracle is defined by you. We give you the freedom—and the skills—to write your own success story. Whatever avenue you go down, you’ll gain priceless learning experiences and be supported to do your best work.

 
Detailed Description and Job Requirements
 
Sells a subset of product or services directly or via partners to a large number of named accounts/non-named accounts/geographical territory (mainly Tier 3 accounts).

Primary job duty is to sell business applications software/solutions and related services to prospective and existing customers. Manage sales through forecasting, account resource allocation, account strategy, and planning. Develop solution proposals encompassing all aspects of the application. Participate in the development, presentation and sales of a value proposition. Negotiate pricing and contractual agreement to close the sale. Identify and develop strategic alignment with key third party influencers.

Job duties are varied and complex, needing independent judgment. May have project lead role. 5 years field sales experience with focus on large strategic accounts including applications sales experience. Highly developed selling, customer relations and negotiation skills. Successful sales track record. Oracle knowledge and/or knowledge of Oracle*s competitors. Interaction with C level players. Team player. Ability to penetrate accounts and meet with stakeholders within accounts. Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills. Presentation skills. Travel may be needed. Bachelor degree or equivalent.

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Preferred Qualifications
 
We are looking for an Executive Assistant to perform a variety of administrative tasks and support our company’s senior-level manager(s).

Executive Assistant’s responsibilities include managing calendars, making travel arrangements, and preparing expense reports. To be successful in this role, you should be well-organized, have great time management skills and be able to act without guidance.

Ultimately, you will contribute to the efficiency of our business by providing personalized and timely support to executive member(s).  

General secretarial duties:

Diary Management and the maintenance thereof for multiple stakeholders
Handling of general queries
Arrangement of meetings/venues
Travel arrangements
Answering telephones and timeous delivery of comprehensive messages
Typing/formatting of documents
Compiling and finalising reports
Office Management (Ordering stationery etc.)
Ensuring all standard documents are completed
Administration duties

Filing
Updating and administering internal knowledge management system
Understanding of all admin processes and ability to guide staff to required documentation
Advise and assist staff on admin systems queries
Administrative support CRM initiatives
Ad hoc tasks
Qualifications
Qualifications & Experience Required

Matriculation + Secretarial Diploma/Qualification beneficial
Minimum 4 years Extensive Secretarial/Personal Assistant Experience
Experience managing multiple diaries - across time zones 
Experience supporting multiple Leaders 
Discretion and trustworthiness: you will often be party of confidential information
Flexibility and adaptability
Good oral and written communication skills
Organisational skills and the ability to multitask
The ability to be proactive and take the initiative
 
Detailed Description and Job Requirements
 
Provides administrative/clerical support within any of a variety of departments. Supports an SVP or below.

Spends 60% of time providing administrative support to relieve managers and staff of administrative details. Spends less than 20% of time on special projects. Spends less than 20% of time performing clerical duties; ie: taking messages, filing, copying, faxing. Duties may include processing and tracking of purchase orders, expense reports, timecards. Arranges interviews and group events. Maintains organization charts and distribution lists. Creates spreadsheet models for forecasting. Implements space planning and group moves. Sets up new hire offices. Assists in the preparation of reports, graphs, and presentations using spreadsheet and graphic software. Makes domestic/international relocation/travel arrangements. Arranges internal/external meetings and catering needs. Acts as an information source on organization policies and procedures. Works with other administrative personnel.

Works on assignments that are moderately complex in nature where judgment is needed in resolving problems and making routine recommendations. Follows standard practice and procedure. Normally receives no instructions on routine work, general instructions on new assignments. Ability to work in a dynamic fast paced environment. Knowledge of spreadsheet applications. Demonstrated strong organizational skills. Proactive and resourceful. Self-motivated. Proficient in desktop applications such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email messaging tools, etc. BA/BS degree or equivalent. 1 - 2 years of related experience.

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Preferred Qualifications
 
Oracle is leading the digital revolution. We are empowering nearly half a million businesses across the globe to turn untapped potential into real business value. You will connect the biggest enterprises of today with the tools to compete in the digital economy of tomorrow.

Description
What You’ll Do                                                                                               
Be the vital piece of the puzzle that connects us to the millions of businesses that need our help to evolve. If you are passionate, entrepreneurial, innovative, and believe in being consultative and having fun whilst you work, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

We are seeking a motivated sales individual who can sell our entire technology solutions portfolio in a license sales model. As we continue to help customers to transition to Cloud, we make sure their needs for an On premise solution are still covered.

You would cover a wide rage of solutions from Database, data management Solutions (Analytics, Integration..etc) as well Cybersecurity, middleware and other exciting digital solutions. You will help your customers, who have growing data volumes and aggressive service-level expectations, maximize the potential of their IT organizations

Having a sense of humor in what can be a pressure environment helps, and the rewards for your contribution include a compensation and benefits package and a continuous training program in a structured environment that are world class.

 Job Description          

• Develop infrastructure/Database/Middleware/BI/Big data License Sales opportunities and maintain customer relationships in a designated market vertical/customer.
• The portfolio will be our wide technology portfolio. Although the right candidate should be able to orchestrate a speech across the complete offering of Oracle in front of a client and work alongside other internal teams to be one Oracle for the customer.
• Promote and evangelize Oracle products to selected customers, partners, and internal audiences
• Develop relationships and collaborate with our partners to define, recommend, and drive sales
• Develop and execute a sales plan that provides complete territory and sector specific coverage
• Develop appropriate sales programs and solutions; maintain up-to-date competitive information and compile regional success stories
• Meet with senior customer contacts to build credibility and develop lasting relationships
• Closing deals winning business etc. as well as developing opportunities
• Engage with  Pre-Sales  Technical support for customer meetings to develop customer discussions further
• Lead successful go-to-market campaigns by working closely with internal marketing specialists
• Contribute and lead in account planning, customer/market analysis, and strategy sessions
• Contribute individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Being able to orchestrate proposals together with other internal business groups in the same solutions team or others. Understand that is all about the customer.

Required Skills/Experience
What You’ll Bring

Your enthusiasm, knowledge, and customer-centricity will help us continue our growth as a top IT company.

 We also look for:

• 5+ years of experience in direct software sales to complex/Large Enterprises
• Experience in the designated market vertical /customer (Public Sector) would be required
• Good understanding of the information technology customer needs and strong technical expertise to become a trusted advisor across a wide technology portfolio.
• Proven track record in a sales-driven organization, selling technology-related products and services
• Solid written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Creative with strong problem-solving skills and an ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment
• Proven ability to work well as part of an extended sales team
• Knowledge of Oracle products preferred but not essential
• Fluency in English
• Team player and self-motivated

 A career at Oracle is defined by you. We give you the freedom—and the skills—to write your own success story. Whatever avenue you go down, you’ll gain priceless learning experiences and be supported to do your best work.

Apply Now

Create the future with us. Apply now.
Visit oracle.com/careers and search for Technology Sales Representative

 
Detailed Description and Job Requirements
 
Sells a subset of product or services directly or via partners to a large number of named accounts/non-named accounts/geographical territory (mainly Tier 3 accounts).

Primary job duty is to sell technology software products and related services in a defined territory. Identifies, qualifies and closes new opportunities. Manages accounts including the entire sales process from business development prospecting and specifications through contract negotiations, signing, and post-sales support. Leverages the Oracle sales model to maximize revenue growth and increase local market share. Builds and expands business partner revenue and self sufficiency.

Job duties are varied and complex, needing independent judgment. May have project lead role. 5 years field sales experience including technology sales experience. Ability to forecast, manage sales expenses, and successfully close new Oracle business. Business development, prospecting and presentation skills. Excellent communication skills and problem solving ability. Proven track record of exceeding sales objective and territory/account development. Experience as the focal point for clients for all sales and related issues. Oracle knowledge and/or knowledge of Oracle*s competitors. Travel may be needed. Bachelor degree or equivalent.

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Preferred Qualifications
 
Oracle Financial Services Global Business Unit (FSGBU) is a world leader in providing IT solutions to the financial services industry. Oracle’s customers include ten of the top ten global banks, ten of the top ten insurance companies, ten of the top ten securities firms, five of the top  five  mutual fund companies and four of the top five World stock exchanges. With the experience of delivering value-based IT solutions to over 840 financial institutions in over 130 countries, the FSGBU understands the specific challenges that financial institutions face: the need for building customer intimacy and competitive advantage through cost-effective solutions while, simultaneously, adhering to the stringent demands of a dynamic regulatory environment.  Our solutions have the world's most comprehensive and contemporary banking applications and provide a technology footprint that addresses their complex IT and business requirements

As a Corporate and Transaction Banking - Business Development Specialist this role will work in collaboration with on-field sales executives in each of the markets and will take  responsibility for selling into a designated territory

Description
What You’ll Do – The responsibilities are as follows

• ·         Building pipeline and executing new business opportunities and meet/exceed Corporate and Transaction Banking targets established for the designated region
• ·         Big emphasis will be on building pipeline from new prospects within the region
• ·         A successful candidate must be capable of engaging at a CXO and Senior levels within Banks to understand their strategy and key business drivers; strive to develop a buying vision and roadmap with the customer; introduce Oracle solutions and to convince the customers of the value it delivers 
• ·         Strives to position Oracle as a market leader in the Corporate and Transaction Banking solutions space
• ·         Collaborate closely with Sales, Pre-sales, Consulting, Marketing teams to drive sales in the assigned market
• ·         Will be  the face of Oracle FSGBU Corporate and Transaction Banking within the region and actively contributes towards thought leadership vie- speaking engagements, writing blogs etc.. 
• ·         Provide direction and input to the Product Management, Product Marketing and Product Development Groups on product plans and new product roll outs by analysing the changes and advances in technology to anticipate the market trends

Required Skills/Experience
What You’ll Bring

• ·       10-15 years of experience selling enterprise software to banks, preferably in the space of Corporate Lending, Cash Management, Payments, Liquidity Management, Digital Channels, Trade and Supply Chain Finance
• ·       A strong track record of pipeline and revenue growth in the Corporate and Transaction Banking or Payments space
• ·       Has strong connects within the business and technology teams within banks in the region
• ·       Should have a sound understanding of the Corporate and Transaction Banking space with deep understanding in one or multiple domains- Credit & Lending, Payments, Liquidity Management, Virtual Accounts, Trade and Supply Chain 
• ·       Should have good understanding of the technology trends and should be able to articulate the Functional and Technical value proposition to prospective customers 
• ·       Should have an excellent presentation and demonstration skills and should have the prior experience in public speaking at conferences and trade events 

Detailed Description and Job Requirements
 

• Responsible for the identification of relevant new business opportunities and designs "go-to-market" plan to deliver measurable and significant revenues. Pursues sales opportunities in the market, and carries the baton in the beginning of the sales cycle.
• A Business Development Representative is assigned to strategic accounts which may be grouped by industry where Oracle has a limited presence. Acts as primary liaison between Consulting, Sales, and Oracle Development for the product*s sales opportunities. Generates business opportunities through prospecting mass market programs and leveraging third party partners. Develops and coordinates a worldwide relationship with customers that establishes Oracle as a preferred vendor and optimizes Oracle's sales of product. Executes aggressive strategies and plans to successfully drive the product as the preferred customer selection. Provides account representatives with information on how the product addresses specific needs, and assists account representatives in using Oracle's products to leverage large revenue opportunities. Assists in articulating product message, coordinates technical resources and hands off deals to a successful close.
• Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. 8 years of progressively increased responsibilities in sales or sales management. Marketing and business development experience preferred. Business and account planning implementation experience. Conversant in Oracle technology and product strategies. Proven track record in managing multiple opportunities and ability to negotiate and close complex deals. Ability to determine strategy and tactical plans that deliver tangible results. Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills. Ability to travel. BA/BS degree or equivalent, advanced degree highly desirable.

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

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Preferred Qualifications
 
Principle Software Engineer – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Development

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) organisation is responsible for developing key services that power Oracle's cloud solutions across all layers of the IaaS/SaaS/PaaS stack. Our primary focus areas are scale, performance and reliability. We can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of meaningful scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing best of breed cloud products that meet the needs of our large enterprise customers who are taking on some of the world’s biggest challenges. We are still building out our portfolio of cloud services and as such engineers at all levels have a real chance to create an impact and craft the future of Oracle’s cloud platform.

OCI Cape Town is currently looking for hands-on engineers. We are tackling one of the most complex problems the cloud industry is facing - enabling large enterprise customers to move to the cloud. This entails moving large amounts of data, as well as migrating configuration and identity info, over some challenging network topologies while providing a "it just works" user experience. The team provides an opportunity to work across multiple different cloud services while building its own cloud native service to migrate entire workloads.

Join our friendly distributed team working in a collaborative, remote-first culture to build a globally impacting product. All OCI Cape Town employees work from home which gives us the flexibility to hire the right person remotely. 

We are looking for passionate, technical leaders who

Can craft highly scalable services and make the appropriate tradeoffs between performance, reliability and maintainability
Has a solid grounding in computer science fundamentals, who would be at home picking up a new programming language or problem domain
Enjoy working in an innovative and collaborative environment
Can act as escalation points for our operational support on an on-call roster basis
Core requirements

• Bsc or Msc degree in Computer Science or related field. Equivalent experience with a consistent track record may be substituted.
• Typically has 7+ years or more proven experience.
• Solid understanding of C, C++ or Java, and experience with scripting languages such as Python or Perl, etc.

Plus preferred experiences that we are looking for

• Software development experience with distributed, highly scalable, multi-node environments
• Strong understanding of virtual machine technologies, networking and storage systems
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skillsExtensive Linux experience, both command-line and system level knowledge
• Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies.
• Ability to design, develop and troubleshoot software programs across database, network and application stacks.

Example Responsibilities:

• Improve and implement best practices across director’s organisation in software engineering.
• Drives design and planning of services to identify and mitigate the risk of failure to provide highly available services.
• Writes and reviews code for cloud-native services written in a microservice framework with REST-based APIs
• Implement and analyse service metrics to drive service improvementsSet a high-quality bar for services right from the design stage through to production e.g. end to end testing, monitoring and alerting.
• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
• As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
• Work is non-routine and very sophisticated, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.
• As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, prior to an offer being made. This will involve identity and employment verification, salary verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

 
Detailed Description and Job Requirements
 

• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
• As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
• Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.
• As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

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Preferred Qualifications
 
Principle Software Engineer – OCI Media Services

Software Engineer – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Development

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) organisation is responsible for developing key services that power Oracle's cloud solutions across all layers of the IaaS/SaaS/PaaS stack. Our primary focus areas are scale, performance and reliability.

We can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment.  OCI is committed to providing best of breed cloud products that meet the needs of our large enterprise customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. We are still building out our portfolio of cloud services and as such engineers at all levels have a real chance to make an impact and shape the future of Oracle’s cloud platform.

OCI Cape Town is currently looking for hands-on engineers to build out an exciting new team working on a suite of OCI-native services in the digital media space. We are building services from the ground up that run the gamut from content transcode and streaming to information extraction and analytics. From a technology perspective, this is a greenfield development environment with a huge amount of autonomy, leaving us free to build and innovate without being encumbered by legacy products and services.

Join our friendly distributed team working in a collaborative, remote-first culture to build a globally impacting product. All OCI Cape Town employees work from home which has given us the flexibility in hiring the right candidate remotely.

We are looking for passionate, technical leaders who

• Have a proven track record of delivering high-scale, high-impact solutions
• Can design highly scalable services and make the appropriate tradeoffs between performance, reliability and maintainability
• Have a solid grounding in computer science fundamentals, who would be at home picking up a new programming language or problem domain
• Enjoy working in an innovative and collaborative environment
• Can act as escalation points for our operational support on an on-call roster basis

Core requirements

• Bsc or Msc degree in Computer Science or related field. Equivalent experience with a proven track record may be substituted.
• Typically has 5+ years or more relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of C, C++ or Java, and experience with scripting languages such as Python or Perl, etc.

Plus preferred experiences that we are looking for

• Experience in digital media workloads (transcoding, streaming, DRM, codecs etc)
• Software development experience with distributed, highly scalable, multi-node environments
• Strong understanding of virtual machine technologies, networking and storage systems
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
• Extensive Linux experience, both command-line and system level knowledge
• Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies.
• Ability to design, develop and troubleshoot software programs across database, network and application stacks.

Example Responsibilities:

• Improve and implement best practices across director’s organisation in software engineering.
• Drives design and planning of services to identify and mitigate risk of failure to provide highly available services.
• Writes and reviews code for cloud native services written in a microservice framework with REST based APIs
• Implement and analyse service metrics to drive service improvements
• Set a high-quality bar for services right from the design stage through to production e.g. end to end testing, monitoring and alerting.
• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
• As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
• Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.
• As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, prior to an offer being made. This will involve identity and employment verification, salary verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable)

 
Detailed Description and Job Requirements
 

• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
• As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.
• Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience.
• As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

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Preferred Qualifications
 
Principle Software Engineer – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Development

(Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development) (IC3/IC4)

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) organisation is responsible for developing key services that power Oracle's cloud solutions across all layers of the IaaS/SaaS/PaaS stack. Our primary focus areas are scale, performance and reliability.

We can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment.  OCI is committed to providing best of breed cloud products that meet the needs of our large enterprise customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. We are still building out our portfolio of cloud services and as such engineers at all levels have a real chance to make an impact and shape the future of Oracle’s cloud platform.

OCI Cape Town is currently looking for hands-on and passionate engineers. We are developing solutions to complex problems that directly impact Oracle’s customers. Currently this involves developing solutions to support the automated migration of Oracle's customer IaaS workloads between datacentres in a way that minimises customer interruption. The team strives to provide a "it just works" experience for these problems. We collaborate directly with teams in Canada and the United States.

Join our friendly distributed team working in a collaborative, remote first culture to build a globally impacting product. All OCI Cape Town employees work from home which has given us the flexibility in hiring the right candidate remotely.

We are looking for passionate, technical leaders who

• Can design highly scalable services and make the appropriate tradeoffs between performance, reliability and maintainability
• Have a solid grounding in computer science fundamentals, who would be at home picking up a new programming language or problem domain
• Enjoy working in an innovative and collaborative environment
• Can act as escalation points for our operational support on an on-call roster basis

Core requirements

• Bsc or Msc degree in Computer Science or related field. Equivalent experience with a proven track record may be substituted.
• Typically has 5+ years or more relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of C, C++ or Java, and experience with scripting languages such as Python or Perl, etc.

Plus preferred experiences that we are looking for

• Software development experience with distributed, highly scalable, multi-node environments
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code principles including related technologies like Ansible, Chef, Puppet or similar
• Strong understanding of virtual machine technologies, networking and storage systems
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
• Extensive Linux experience, both command-line and system level knowledge
• Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies.
• Ability to design, develop and troubleshoot software programs across database, network and application stacks.

Example Responsibilities:

• Improve and implement best practices across director’s organisation in software engineering.
• Drives automation where appropriate to eliminate bottlenecks and reduce chance of human operator errors
• Drives design and planning of services to identify and mitigate risk of failure to provide highly available services.
• Writes and reviews code for cloud native services written in a microservice framework with REST based APIs
• Implement and analyse service metrics to drive service improvements
• Set a high-quality bar for services right from the design stage through to production e.g. end to end testing, monitoring and alerting.
• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
• As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
• Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.
• As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, prior to an offer being made. This will involve identity and employment verification, salary verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable)

 
Detailed Description and Job Requirements
 

• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
• As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.
• Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience.
• As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

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Preferred Qualifications
 
Site Reliability Engineer (South Africa)

Member of Engineering Staff

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) organisation is responsible for developing key services that power Oracle's cloud solutions across all layers of the IaaS/SaaS/PaaS stack. Our primary focus areas are scale, performance and reliability.

The OCI Cape Town team, along with our sister teams across the United States, Canada and India are responsible for developing and maintaining key Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) software that powers Oracle's cloud solutions. Our primary focus areas are scale, performance and reliability.

We are looking for team members who can operate across a wide set of services across different platforms ensuring that our sites run reliably. We are in the process of migrating customers from our legacy cloud platform to the new generation. This is a complex operation requiring deep thought on how to selectively deprecate legacy systems and replace them with newer services while avoiding any customer impact. 

We can provide you with the opportunity to operate and support a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing best of breed cloud products that meet the needs of our large enterprise customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.

OCI Cape Town is currently looking for hands-on engineers. We are tackling one of the most complex problems the cloud industry is facing - enabling large enterprise customers to move to the cloud. This entails moving large amounts of data, as well as migrating configuration and identity info, over some challenging network topologies while providing a "it just works" user experience. 

The support team provides an opportunity to work across multiple different cloud services to ensure that our sites run with outstanding levels of reliability while we are performing migrations of these workloads.

Join our friendly distributed team working in a collaborative, remote-first culture to support a globally impacting product. All OCI Cape Town employees work from home. 

Responsibilities

• Hands-on operational support for issues escalated to the team by the front line operations teams.
• Monitoring of operational support slack channels and health dashboards.
• Providing insightful troubleshooting and optimal solutions based on a deep understanding of the product.
• Being able to discern when to escalate to subject matter experts
• Supporting various operations teams within Oracle using Iaas in multiple cloud and engineered systems offerings.
• Designing, developing and modifying platform and tooling code, integrating, refining and optimizing processes and tooling related to automation, diagnostics, analysis, continuous deployment and reporting.
• Developing intimate knowledge of the core product by diving into the code.
• Performing root cause analysis on production incidents for correction of error purposes.
• Developing and documenting best practice system behaviour and recipes for cookbook-style documentation.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent a plus
• Excellent Linux system administration skills and familiarity with Linux (4 years + experience)
• Demonstrable advanced coding experience with scripting languages such as Python, shell, etc
• Experience with source code version control systems such as Git
• Strong networking skills with a solid knowledge of Internet Protocols and tools
• Comfortable with continuous deployment process tools such as Hudson or Jenkins
• Experience with distributed systems that scale well
• Participated in teams that have had a collaborative approach to systems architecture as well a high bar for quality and performance
• Experience with metrics acquisition and analysis, including log processing and regular expression programming
• As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process, prior to an offer being made. This will involve identity and employment verification, salary verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

 
Detailed Description and Job Requirements
 

• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
• As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.
• Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience.
• As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

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Preferred Qualifications
 
Oracle Financial Services PrimeSourcing offers an end-to-end consulting partnership, providing comprehensive business and technology solutions that enable financial services enterprises to improve process efficiencies, optimize costs, meet risk and compliance requirements, define IT architecture, and manage the transformation process. We offer consulting services in the areas of business transformation, risk and compliance, program management, IT architecture, IT governance and process improvement.

PrimeSourcing focuses on providing services (application development, testing, managed services…) in the Financial Services space. Our services include integration services and services around Oracle Products excluding software implementation.

For more information, please visit this link PrimeSourcing

Description
What You’ll Do - Be the vital piece of the puzzle that connects us to the millions of businesses that need our help to evolve, by:
The position’s primary responsibility is to generate new business and new logos within Financial Services across Africa on named accounts. The candidate will develop revenue-producing relationships with decision-making CxO level executives; drive the sales from initial prospect communication through contract execution working with business development & solution architect teams.

• Prospecting, identifying and closing new business and new logos
• Generate new revenue from logos won
• Attaining sales/revenue goals for the Africa and DB Global consulting sales team
• Working with the Europe & Africa Head for a unified approach to achieving the organization goals in the account
• Demonstrated ability and maturity to sell and build relationships with C-Level executives
• Ensuring high level of Customer satisfaction
• Required Skills/Experience

What You’ll Bring - Enthusiasm, entrepreneurial mindset and customer-centricity

• 7 + Years Industry experience in New Business development and Account Management roles in the BFSI segment
• Experience in hunting new logos/ account management roles for large global outsourcing companies.
• Extensive knowledge of global delivery model.
• A strong record of sales success and exceeding targets is preferred.
• Excellent Communication skills - both written and verbal.
• Excellent Team player
• Ability to operate in undefined environment
• This is a field sales role and the candidate is expected to spend a significant portion of their time meeting with clients face to face across Africa
• The candidate will be required to do forecasting, preparing bids, negotiating, and managing the sale cycle.
• BE, BS or BA in related fields. Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree highly preferred.
   

 
Detailed Description and Job Requirements
 
Responsible for sales of Oracle consulting services.

Responsible for selling the Oracle consulting services. Develops new accounts and/or expands existing accounts within an established geographic territory, industry, product segment, or channel.

8-12 years of relevant field sales experience. Able to develop strong internal relationships. Able to network and develop strong business relationships with customers such that they turn to Oracle for their resource needs. Able to generate leads and submit proposals to the client utilizing a broad knowledge of Oracle service offerings. Able to generate consulting services and nurture and close the transaction. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization.

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).