Oracle EPM Architect

• We are looking for an experienced Oracle EPM Architect to provide strategic architecture leadership, design oversight, and technical guidance across our EPM transformation initiatives.
• This role will partner closely with Customer business and technology teams to ensure scalable, sustainable, and business-aligned solutions.
• This role will provide experienced architectural leadership that helps Customer make informed decisions, accelerate delivery, reduce risk, and implement a scalable EPM platform that supports both current business requirements and future growth.

Key Responsibilities

End-to-End Solution Architecture & Design Leadership

• Review and guide overall EPM solution architecture across Planning, EDM, integrations, reporting, and future-state capabilities.
• Actively participate in design discussions, providing recommendations and challenge where appropriate to ensure adherence to architectural best practices.
• Advise on Enterprise Data Management (EDM) design, hierarchy governance, metadata management, and master data strategy.
• Review and optimize dimension, cube, and application design for performance, scalability, maintainability, and future growth.
• Provide guidance on integration architecture, including upstream/downstream system impacts, data flows, orchestration, and automation.
• Help navigate Customer-specific business complexities, data structures, and cross-functional dependencies.

Future-State Roadmap & Conceptual Architecture

• Review and validate the EPM strategic roadmap to ensure alignment with business objectives and broader enterprise architecture principles.
• Develop and refine conceptual and target-state architecture models.
• Identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, and optimization across the EPM ecosystem.
• Assess architectural implications of future business requirements and emerging Oracle capabilities.
• Provide recommendations on sequencing initiatives and technical debt reduction.

Governance, Release Management & Operational Excellence

• Establish and advise on architecture governance processes, design reviews, and decision frameworks.
• Provide release management guidance, including deployment strategies, environment management, migration planning, and change control practices.
• Review impacts of quarterly Oracle updates and recommend adoption strategies for new functionality.
• Support risk identification and mitigation planning related to architecture, performance, integrations, and data management.
• Advise on operational support models, issue management, and sustainability planning.