Master Principal Architect, Field CISO

Job Description

Master Principal Architect. Field CISO

Position Overview

The Master Cloud Architect, Field Ciso will work with customer-facing security executives within the Field Engineering Specialists organization. This role is scoped to North American enterprise customers,

You will be responsible for executive-level engagement, trusted security advisory, and architecture-level guidance to help large enterprises securely adopt and expand their use of our cloud services. This includes guiding customers to modernize their architecture and operations for securing AI services, tenancies, workloads, and sensitive data

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cybersecurity, with at least 5+ years in a CISO role.
• Experience with security programs in cloud and AI environments at enterprise scale
• Expertise in cloud-native and AI-native security architecture: IAM, zero trust, workload/container security, AI model governance, secure MLOps, data lineage, adversarial ML defenses
• Strong executive presence with proven ability to engage both C-suite and technical architects
• Demonstrated ability with directly engaging with customers
• Familiarity with enterprise compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF, FedRAMP, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS) and AI regulations/standards
• Strong track record of public speaking and published thought leadership
• Willingness to travel extensively within North America

Reporting & Scope

• Reports to: Director of Cloud Engineering
• Scope: North American enterprise customers

Success Metrics

• Customer CISO sentiment and trust (measured through surveys, executive feedback, NPS)
• Success getting customers to Certify and Adopt Oracle Cloud and AI Services.
• Adoption and consumption of security services, including cloud-native services for securing:
  • Tenancies (secure configuration, monitoring, access governance)
  • Workloads (container/Kubernetes security, workload isolation, threat detection)
  • Data (encryption, DLP, key management, AI data governance)
• Increased enterprise retention and expansion driven by secure adoption
• Influence on pipeline creation and deal acceleration through trusted security engagement

Responsibilities displayed in the job posting
Team Development

• Define engagement models, frameworks, and success metrics for customer-facing security programs
• Maintain CISO-level relationships with select strategic customers

Customer Engagement & Security Architecture

• Serve as a trusted advisor to enterprise CISOs, CIOs, and boards, guiding them on cloud security, compliance, and risk management
• Lead security architecture design sessions for cloud and AI workloads: zero trust, IAM, workload protection, secure data management, encryption, and incident response
• Guide customers in modernizing their operations and controls to secure AI services, including model governance, secure MLOps pipelines, and adversarial defense strategies
• Facilitate workshops, executive briefings, and tabletop exercises
• Help customers adopt and operationalize cloud-native security services for securing tenancies, workloads, and sensitive data at scale

Cross-Functional Influence & Voice of the Customer

• Capture customer security needs, regulatory requirements, and architectural priorities to inform internal product and engineering roadmaps
• Partner with corporate product and information security governance and the office of the Oracle CISO to support customer alignment with FedRAMP, GDPR, DORA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and AI risk frameworks (e.g., NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act)
• Collaborate with Field Engineering, Solution Architects, and Sales Specialists to drive secure adoption and accelerate enterprise wins
• Represent our cloud and AI security strategy at industry events, conferences, and customer councils

Operational Excellence

• Establish reusable reference architectures, playbooks, and frameworks for secure cloud and AI workloads
• Provide executive-level support during major customer security incidents and ensure lessons learned inform improvements
• Drive measurable outcomes for both customer success and business impact

Responsibilities

Responsible for engaging with strategic and more complex customers, builds leadership relationships at multiple levels within organizations in order to design and implement solutions. Works directly with customers to gather requirements, develop architectures and translates business needs into solutions. May implement solutions and ensure successful deployments through code development and scripting. Displays product/application understanding through highly customized presentation demonstrations to customers and at conferences and events. Supports customer from Proof of Concept (POC) through production deployment of services via resource configuration, planning, and customer education/training. Creates and distributes technical assets (white papers, solution code, blog posts, and video demonstrations). Provides leadership and expertise in the development of new solutions, products, and processes. Maintains expertise by staying current on emerging technologies. Acts as an acknowledged authority for customers and sales on technical cloud solutions and customer success. Viewed by peers as a leader and top contributor and by line management as a key business partner. Identifies gaps and enhancements to influence engineering roadmaps for customer driven features. Maintains expertise by staying current on emerging technologies.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $141,800 to $232,200 per annum. May be eligible for equity and compensation deferral. Eligible for commission with an estimated pay mix of 70/30.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC5

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