Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

Oracle Customer Success Services (CSS) is seeking a Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to lead the delivery of strategic AI and data transformation programs for Oracles largest enterprise customers. This is a senior customer-facing engineering leadership role responsible for architecting modernizing and operationalizing enterprise-scale data platforms on the Oracle AI Data Platform.

You will work directly with CIOs CDOs CTOs chief architects and engineering leaders to accelerate AI adoption modernize legacy data estates and deliver production-ready analytics and Generative AI solutions. You will combine deep hands-on engineering expertise with executive-level consulting leading complex migrations from Databricks Snowflake Azure AWS and hybrid environments while defining reusable delivery patterns that shape Oracle CSS best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of enterprise AI Data Platform transformations.
• Design and implement scalable data consolidation integration transformation governance and AI-ready architectures.
• Lead migrations from Databricks Snowflake Azure AWS and on-premises platforms to Oracle AI Data Platform including workload assessment code refactoring SPARK optimization and modernization
• Serve as the executive technical advisor throughout customer engagements.
  Architect Lakehouse Medallion Architecture streaming and real-time analytics solutions using OCI services.
• Provide expert-level Apache Spark configuration performance tuning cluster sizing partitioning memory optimization adaptive query execution and troubleshooting.
• Build reusable migration accelerators reference architectures automation frameworks and delivery methodologies.
• Drive AI/ML and Generative AI data preparation pipelines feature engineering vector-ready datasets and governed data products.
• Partner with Oracle Product Management and Engineering to influence product roadmap through field experience.
• Mentor senior engineers globally and establish engineering excellence across CSS.

Minimum Qualifications

• 1012 years designing and delivering enterprise data platforms.
• Proven experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer Principal Solution Architect Consulting Engineer or Professional Services technical leader.
• Expert knowledge of Oracle AI Data Platform or equivalent modern cloud data platforms.
  Extensive experience with Databricks Snowflake Apache Spark Delta Lake Azure AWS Kafka Python SQL Scala or Java.
• Deep expertise in SPARK architecture configuration optimization tuning distributed systems and large-scale performance engineering.
• Demonstrated success migrating enterprise analytics platforms and refactoring Spark/ETL workloads from Databricks Snowflake Azure and AWS.
• Strong understanding of DataOps CI/CD Infrastructure as Code security governance metadata lineage and observability
• Outstanding executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• OCI Architect Data Engineer Data Scientist or AI certifications.
• Experience with LLMs Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) vector databases AI agents and MLOps.
• Experience leading multi-petabyte modernization programs and globally distributed delivery teams.
• Industry expertise in Financial Services Healthcare Public Sector Telecommunications Manufacturing or Retail.

Leadership Expectations

• Own technical strategy for strategic customer programs.
• Influence Oracle product direction through customer advocacy.
• Establish reusable engineering standards and delivery frameworks.
• Recognized thought leader in cloud data engineering and AI platforms.
• Coach senior architects and engineers across Oracle CSS.
• Represent Oracle at executive briefings architecture reviews conferences and customer innovation workshops.

Why Join Oracle CSS

You will help define how Oracles largest customers adopt AI at enterprise scale. This role combines executive consulting deep hands-on engineering product influence and technical leadership offering the opportunity to shape Oracle AI Data Platform adoption across the worlds most demanding organizations.

Career Level - IC5