Oracle Cloud Solutions Director

About the Team

Oracle business group is a national team who focuses on unlocking value from Oracle Technologies. We work closely with our other advisory teams to enable technology lead transformational change for our clients. This includes the analysis, assessment, and implementation of proven technology solutions enabled by our KPMG Powered Enterprise methods.

We are seeing tremendous client demand, and looking forward we do not anticipate that slowing down. In this ever-changing market environment, our professionals must be adaptable and thrive in a collaborative, team-driven culture. At KPMG Australia, our people are our number one priority. With a wealth of learning and career development opportunities, and leading market tools, we make sure our people continue to grow both professionally and personally.

Your Opportunity
A key role in KPMG Oracle business group, you will lead the design, implementation, and optimisation of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) solutions. Your focus will be on architecting and delivering OCI capabilities, integrating with Oracle Fusion applications and other cloud technologies to meet diverse business requirements. You will translate complex architectural principles and business needs into robust, scalable OCI solutions.

This position is open to candidates who currently hold the right to work in Australian.
Candidates with the right to work in New Zealand may also be considered.

This is key solution role of end to end project delivery lifecycle from initiation, to go-live, warranty, and support across multiple clients from a wide range of industries, by:

• Supporting business development activities such as identification, proposal development, and other pursuit activities; work with the appropriate KPMG individuals from other service lines/sectors
• Supporting our Agentic AI and other AI capability development, including the identification of use cases to automate through AI and being able to develop business value models to support 
• Leading client through the solution design from proposal development through go live and beyond; we expect our leads to have ownership of the solution outcome for our clients
• Leading OCI solution architecture capability for proposal development; you will be a single point of accountability for solution design during the proposal development phase
• Leading OCI project delivery involving strategy, implementation, and OCI related optimisation engagement work to Information Technology (IT) operations, networking, technical processes, security, and data
• Supporting interactions with the vendor (Oracle) including their product development, sales engineering, customer success services and sales organisations to help achieve win-win outcomes for our clients, KPMG and Oracle
• Championing KPMG in the market through activities including maintaining a comprehensive professional network, developing thought leadership, contribution to marketing
• Maintaining a comprehensive understanding of product strategy and roadmap 
• Building and maintain close working relationships with a variety of prospective and current clients, to understand their motivations, specific requirements and to translate those into clearly articulated platform wide designs that consider the connected nature of technology, data, process and delivery model
• Providing oversight on design and configuration delivered by the team including solution documentation
• Developing and expanding own knowledge of OCI and related technologies through active self-learning, formal training and contribution to forums

Additionally, it is advantageous if you maintain hands-on configure capability in OCI technologies, but is not a primary activity for this role.

How are you Extraordinary?

• You are passionate about the importance of fantastic communication to share ideas, inspire, and create change
• You are able to digest, distil, and communicate the most complex problems in both written and verbal forms for a variety of stakeholders at various levels of seniority
• You get things done! You're proactive, results driven, and enjoy bringing your strengths to a multidisciplinary team
• Strong verbal and analytical skills with the ability to write at a publication quality level
• You possess a detailed understanding of OCI concepts and capabilities across OCI - preferably from Developer Services such as OIC, Networking, Agentic & Gen AI, Compute and Data. Other capabilities will be considered.

At KPMG every career is different, and we look forward to seeing how you grow with us.

• You must be able to travel

Your Experience

At KPMG, we believe diversity of thought, background and unique experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, our clients and communities. To be considered for this opportunity, your qualifications, skills & experience could include: 

• Practical Enterprise Architecture or Solution Architecture experience is essential - and would ideally be in an OCI environment
• Exposure to consulting commercial modelling and license services is essential
• Hands-on Delivery experience implementing, configuring or supporting at least few OCI capabilities (i.e., OIC, Databases, Networking, Compute, Storage, AI) is essential
• Experience in Solution Engineering or Solution Selling for Oracle Cloud related products is preferred
• Significant exposure to the technology processes underpinning the delivery of the OCI
• Recent implementation experience of an OCI in a hands-on configuration role or as a tech lead is preferred
• Some experience with contract negotiation or contract management would be an advantage
• Some exposure to multi-cloud solutions would be an advantage