Oracle EPM Architect

Job Title: Oracle EPM Architect
Location: Remote (EST)
Duration: 6 Months
Role Nature:
Advisory/Part-Time Engagement:
• This is an architecture-focused advisory role intended for an experienced Oracle EPM professional who can provide strategic guidance, architecture oversight, design reviews, technical mentorship, and decision support without requiring full-time involvement.
Job Description:
• 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 business and technology teams to ensure scalable, sustainable, and business-aligned solutions.
• The role will provide experienced architectural leadership to help the organization 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 constructive challenges 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 complex business requirements, 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 initiative sequencing 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 long-term sustainability planning.
AI & Innovation Strategy:
• Ensure the organization is effectively leveraging Oracle's latest EPM AI and intelligent automation capabilities.
• Evaluate AI-driven planning, forecasting, predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and narrative reporting opportunities.
• Recommend use cases that drive measurable business value while aligning with governance and data quality requirements.
• Stay current on Oracle EPM product enhancements and emerging capabilities, translating innovations into actionable recommendations.
Technical Advisory & Mentorship:
• Serve as a trusted advisor to architects, product owners, functional leads, and implementation partners.
• Mentor teams on EPM design principles, architecture standards, and best practices.
• Provide independent reviews of key deliverables, solution designs, and critical architectural decisions.
• Help ensure long-term solution maintainability while balancing business needs, speed to market, and technical excellence.