Professional Services Oracle Consultant

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DSP offers award-winning IT consultancy and managed services for Oracle, Microsoft and Google technologies. We specialise particularly in database and data platform management, application development, engineered systems and cloud with a strong presence specifically in Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Engineered Systems, Oracle APEX, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. We are a leading technology partner in the UK and have been recognised as such by our partners and industry through a wide range of awards and accolades.

Our mission is to be the most responsive service provider in the sphere of enterprise database management, regardless of platform, geography, and cloud infrastructure. We will harness the passion of our people and have the courage to challenge traditional methods of service delivery, pursuing customer success and happiness at all times.

We strive to hire the best people who are aligned to our core values:

• Excellence: We are committed to giving our best in everything we do and aspire to be exceptional.
• Responsiveness: We are quick to respond to our colleagues\’ and customers’ needs.
• Respect: We act with honesty and treat employees, customers and partners with mutual respect and promote inclusive working practices.
• Passion and fun: We are passionate about what we do and believe that work should be both fun and fulfilling.
• Continuous Improvement: We have the courage to innovate and embrace new ideas.

The Role

The Professional Services Oracle Consultant will report directly to the relevant technical team leads and will be responsible for pre-sales and delivery of professional services engagements across a variety of platforms and Oracle-centric technologies both on-premises and cloud.

DSP is a growing organisation, and the successful candidate will be working on the latest technologies and cloud platforms; this role is ideal for a motivated Oracle-centric technical consultant who wants to broaden their technical capabilities with solution architecture and design.

Responsibilities

• Participate in or own pre-sales activities with both new and existing customer base, advise customers on the best approach and deliver required outcomes such as Statement of Works, Proposals and Cloud Pricing.
• Architect cloud and on-premises solutions to match the requirements of proposals.
• Deliver professional services engagements based on core Oracle technologies on-premises, on cloud platforms or hybrid cloud to a high standard, ensuring DSP customers meet their business needs.
• Keep relevant Oracle Education and cloud certifications up-to-date.
• Produce both internal and customer facing technical documentation to a high standard.

Primary Technical Capabilities – Oracle

• Oracle Database Administration (all recent versions).
• Oracle platform consolidation and migration approaches and design.
• Oracle core products patching and upgrades.
• Experience of high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities of Oracle Database in particular Oracle RAC, Data Guard and GoldenGate.
• Demonstrable experience with public cloud platforms (OCI (preferred), AWS, Azure, GCP) – including networking and security.
• Oracle Database performance tuning.
• Good understanding of operating systems (Linux, Solaris, Windows).

Secondary Technical Capabilities

• Oracle E-Business Suite experience patching and administration
• Other RDBMS expertise (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Mongo)
• Writing SQL and understanding basic PL/SQL
• Oracle Engineered Systems (Exadata, ODA, PCA)
• Oracle Weblogic
• Oracle Forms and Reports
• Oracle APEX
• Terraform

Key Success Criteria

• Be able to work individually or collaboratively within a team.
• Self-motivated and able to work under their own initiative.
• Strong communicator with an ability to articulate technical and non-technical topics and challenges to a wide and varied audience and at the appropriate level.
• Strong technical writing skills to ensure all work is documented to a high standard.
• Manage their own time appropriately and ensure deadlines are met and expectations are set with key stakeholders.
• A problem solver and with strong attention to detail.
• Be receptive to feedback and developmental critique; have a growth mindset.
• Willingness to learn, adapt and be challenged in particular, but not limited to, learning new methodologies and technologies.
• Keen sense of responsibility for their role and the team within the organisation.

Your Experience

• Minimum 5 – 10 years Oracle DBA.
• Oracle Database hosting and management in cloud environments.
• Large and complex consultancy engagements and/or migration/upgrade projects.
• Experience in working in a technical Professional Services / Consulting environment.

About you

While experience and skills, as detailed above, are important, DSP’s focus on high-quality services and original thinking means we place as much emphasis on candidates’ personal qualities and soft skills. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate the following skills, and strengths in these areas will be viewed favourable if there are gaps in professional skills:

• Excellent organisational skills.
• Customer focused attitude.
• Drive and determination to get the job done correctly.
• Excellent communication and team working skills.
• Willingness to develop better and more intuitive ways of working.
• Strong attention to detail with a desire and ability to work accurately.
• The ability to work under pressure and plan, manage and deliver multiple simultaneous activities. This should include excellent time management skills.
• Reasonable financial acumen relating to project budgets
• Desire to help innovate, automate and optimise processes.

Location and Special Requirements

• Flexible with weekly travel to a DSP office (Leeds, Derby, London) as and when required
• Travel to customer site as required
• Outside of Office work required as requested by customers, additional compensation will be provided for each occurrence.

This job description is not to be regarded as exclusive or exhaustive. It is intended as an outline indicative of the areas of activity and may be amended from time to time in the light of the changing needs of the organisation.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Consulting

Industries

• Information Services

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