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Role: Lead Solution Architect – Oracle Fusion Cloud
Location: UK – Remote / Hybrid, with occasional travel to Reading and client sites as required.
Job Type: Long-term contract outside IR35
Clearance: SC Clearance is essential for this role.
About the Role
Akoni Technologies is seeking an experienced Lead Solution Architect – Oracle Fusion Cloud to support the delivery of a major digital transformation programme for one of our UK public sector clients.
The successful candidate will provide strategic solution and technical architecture leadership across a complex Oracle Fusion Cloud environment covering ERP, HCM, EPM, integrations, automation, and associated cloud services.
You will work closely with the client, lead delivery partner, and multiple third-party suppliers to ensure that solutions are appropriately designed, assured, implemented, and transitioned into live service in accordance with the client's digital, architectural, security, and governance principles.
This is a senior architecture role requiring strong experience of enterprise-scale Oracle Fusion Cloud programmes, multi-supplier environments, and complex public sector or regulated organisations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end solution architecture for Oracle Fusion Cloud solutions across ERP, HCM, EPM, and associated services.
- Define and maintain strategic architecture, solution roadmaps, High-Level Designs (HLDs), technical designs, and supporting architecture artefacts.
- Ensure proposed solutions align with client digital principles, enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, and governance frameworks.
- Provide architecture assurance for solutions proposed and delivered by third-party suppliers.
- Review and challenge supplier designs to ensure the correct architecture, technologies, and integration patterns are being purchased and deployed.
- Provide strategic direction across Oracle SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS capabilities.
- Lead architectural decision-making across functional and technical workstreams.
- Define integration approaches between Oracle Fusion and internal or external enterprise systems.
- Support the design of enterprise-grade integrations using APIs, middleware, and Oracle integration technologies.
- Support architecture relating to workforce management, workforce planning, rostering, and HCM integrations.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, supportable, and suitable for live service.
- Support cutover planning, service transition, hypercare, knowledge transfer, and handover into BAU operations.
- Provide architectural oversight for Oracle quarterly releases, patches, platform upgrades, and technical debt remediation.
- Support the implementation of automated regression testing and release assurance processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency using automation, digital workflows, RPA, analytics, and AI-enabled tooling.
- Work with security teams to ensure appropriate security architecture, protective monitoring, access controls, and compliance evidence are incorporated into solutions.
- Support incident, problem, and technical risk management where architectural input is required.
- Maintain architecture decision records, technical risks, dependencies, and design documentation.
- Participate in programme governance, architecture boards, design reviews, retrospectives, and continuous improvement activities.
- Build strong working relationships with client stakeholders, delivery partners, and third-party vendors.
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Essential Experience
Candidates should have substantial experience in the following areas:
- Proven experience as a Lead Solution Architect, Principal Solution Architect, or Senior Solution Architect on large-scale enterprise transformation programmes.
- Strong hands-on architecture experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud.
- Strong knowledge of Oracle Fusion applications, particularly:
- Oracle ERP Cloud
- Oracle HCM Cloud
- Oracle EPM Cloud
- Experience architecting solutions across Oracle SaaS, PaaS, and cloud integration services.
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture and end-to-end solution design.
- Experience developing and assuring:
- Solution Architecture Documents
- High-Level Designs
- Low-Level Design principles
- Architecture roadmaps
- Integration architectures
- Architecture Decision Records
- Experience working within complex multi-supplier/multi-vendor environments.
- Demonstrable experience providing architecture assurance and challenging supplier technical designs.
- Strong experience with enterprise integrations, APIs, and integration platforms.
- Understanding of Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) or equivalent enterprise integration technologies.
- Experience integrating Oracle Fusion with third-party applications and enterprise platforms.
- Experience delivering systems through development, testing, cutover, hypercare, and transition into live service.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, identity, access management, monitoring, resilience, and non-functional requirements.
- Experience supporting major application releases, platform upgrades, patches, and technical debt remediation.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into practical architectural solutions.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including engagement with senior technical and business stakeholders.
- Previous delivery experience within UK Central Government, wider public sector, or highly regulated organisations.
- Experience working with Government Digital and Data standards or equivalent public-sector architecture principles.
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Desirable Experience
- Knowledge of workforce management, rostering, and workforce planning solutions.
- Experience with Oracle HCM integrations and workforce-related data flows.
- Experience with automation technologies, RPA, AI-enabled tooling, or intelligent workflow automation.
- Experience establishing automated testing or regression-testing approaches for Oracle Fusion.
- Understanding of ITIL-based live-service and service-transition environments.
- Experience working in Agile and multidisciplinary digital delivery teams.
- Familiarity with SFIA-aligned capability frameworks.
- Oracle Cloud or architecture certifications would be advantageous.
Key Skills
- Oracle Fusion Cloud Architecture
- Oracle ERP Cloud
- Oracle HCM Cloud
- Oracle EPM Cloud
- Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)
- Enterprise Solution Architecture
- Technical Architecture
- SaaS/PaaS/Cloud Architecture
- API & Integration Architecture
- HLD/Solution Design
- Architecture Assurance
- Multi-Supplier Governance
- Security Architecture
- Service Transition
- Workforce Management & Rostering
- Automation/RPA/AI
- Stakeholder Management
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