Oracle EBS Solution Architect

Job Description

• Responsible for assessing, defining and championing the IT architecture strategies, principles, policies and standards in alignment with the IT strategy and governing their use;
• Leads the analysis of the technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Creates project and technology roadmaps and define migration plans to mitigate the gaps between the current and future state
• Defines and ensures effective metrics to measure standards adoption, reuse, and demonstrate value
• Performs complex cost/benefit analysis when researching future state capabilities
• Coaches and mentors other team members
• Collaborates with project teams to understand requested capabilities and recommends the right set of technologies to meet the needs
• Provides infrastructure capacity recommendations for new applications and systems
• Lead the solution architecture design on projects and programs
• Design innovative solutions to business problems and enhancement requests, taking full account of existing system design constraints
• Conduct architecture impact analysis of identified changes by business and ensure optimal solution selection for business process improvements
• Work with project teams, functional and technical analysts to design solutions that meet operational requirements and is scalable, easily maintained, secure and highly available
• Ensure solutions are production ready and meet the organization standards and partner with the project teams to oversee the implementation of the solution
• Work with other project teams to facilitate alignment among architecture decisions
• Develop and produce architecture artifacts, technical designs, strategy documents and other technical artifacts
• Facilitate and manage evaluations and proof of concept activities as subject matter expert

Job Requirements

• Over 10 years of Oracle ERP experience with specialization on Oracle Financials (AP, AR, FA, GL, eBTax) and Distribution (OM, PO, INV)
• Over 5 years of experience in the full life-cycle of large scale Oracle implementations
• Over 5 years Oracle Application configuration & set-up experience with multiple modules
• Excellent work experience in Oracle EBS R12 Financials (AR, AP, FA, GL, eBTax) and Distribution (OM, PO, INV) modules
• Expertise in the realization of changes and enhancements, and architecture needs of the Oracle applications, components, extensions, integrations, and reports
• Strong architecture and design capability skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, analytical & problem-solving skills required
• Proven communication skills with the ability to build a strong partnership with business & technology teams to deliver solutions (e.g. written, verbal, presentation skills)
• Ability to grasp technical concepts quickly, strong ability to translate technical verbiage into easily understandable language for non-technical audiences
• Ability to create relationships with new acquaintances quickly and confidently; works to build trust and partner with stakeholders; is comfortable in a challenger role that, at times, requires building constructive tension in interactions
• Ability to apply different approaches to convince and influence others to change their opinion or plan, and wins support from others for ideas; is able to build support with peers without direct lines of reporting across a matrix organization
• Ability to consider the relative benefits and costs of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one; acts decisively and swiftly; identifies problems and drives toward solutions; takes on responsible roles and accountability for outcomes even when things go wrong; is comfortable making difficult decisions