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Solutions Architect (Oracle SaaS Cloud Infrastructure)
Duration: Initial 6 Month Contract
Location: Reading / Hybrid (2 days per week, with Tuesday as the anchor day for the architecture team, aiming for 4 Tuesdays a month with flexibility)
Day Rate: Inside IR35
About the Role
An excellent opportunity has opened for a hands-on Solutions Architect specialising in Cloud Infrastructure to join a major retail transformation programme on an initial 6 month contract. In this role, you will act as the primary infrastructure architecture lead for a business-critical migration from Oracle Retail Platform 15.x to Oracle Cloud (Oracle-hosted SaaS). You will take end-to-end ownership of the infrastructure design, spanning hybrid connectivity, Azure platforms, network segmentation, identity, and security, ensuring the target state environment is secure, performant, resilient, and fully operationalised. You will work on a hybrid basis, joining the broader architecture team in the Reading office on Tuesdays as an anchor day.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead End-to-End Infrastructure Architecture: Design and deliver robust technical solutions across hybrid networking, cloud environments (Azure and OCI), security, and core infrastructure to support Oracle Retail SaaS migration.
- Hybrid Connectivity and Network Design: Manage and design connectivity between customer environments, on-premise systems, Azure, and Oracle Cloud, utilising technologies like Verizon SDI, SWAN, routing domains, VPNs, and firewalls.
- Governance and Design Quality: Provide technical assurance and architectural governance, presenting designs at Architecture forums and ensuring strict alignment with enterprise design guardrails and principles.
- Identity and Security Architecture: Drive identity, authentication, and access controls (Azure AD/Entra ID, SSO/federation, conditional access, egress controls, and certificate management).
- Documentation and Technical Artefacts: Produce high and low level infrastructure documentation, including Solution Blueprints, Low Level Infrastructure Designs, network topologies, and operational handover artefacts.
- Cross-Domain Collaboration: Act as the primary infrastructure liaison to key stakeholders, engineering managers, product owners, and delivery teams (including external partners and suppliers).
- Non-Functional Requirements: Define and optimise non-functional requirements (performance, throughput, latency, security, RTO/RPO, and high availability) across integration boundaries.
- Operational Readiness: Plan and execute solution handovers to ensure post-delivery operational readiness, monitoring capabilities, and long term supportability.
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- Infrastructure Architecture Expertise: Proven track record (5+ years in Architecture, 8+ years total in IT) designing and delivering enterprise scale, highly available infrastructure solutions.
- Hybrid Cloud and Azure Specialist: Deep hands-on architecture experience with Azure networking (VNets, ExpressRoute, NSGs, peering) and hybrid cloud integration patterns.
- SaaS Integration Experience: Strong background integrating enterprise SaaS platforms (Oracle SaaS strongly preferred, large scale SAP/ERP migration experience accepted).
- Core Infrastructure Knowledge: Design level mastery of networking (LAN/WAN, routing protocols, load balancing, DNS), firewalls, identity federation, and monitoring platforms.
- Retail Migration Experience: Experience working on large scale IT transformation or cloud migration programmes within enterprise retail environments.
- Hands-on, Practical Approach: Comfortable diving into low level infrastructure details while maintaining strategic clarity across complex, interconnected systems.
- Strong Documentation Skills: Exceptional ability to produce clear high level blueprints, detailed technical diagrams, and operational runbooks.
- Stakeholder Management: Outstanding communication skills, with the proven ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical teams and non-technical business partners.
- Pragmatic Leadership: Ability to task-manage technical resources (including contract/vendor architects) and lead design decisions in a collaborative, delivery-focused team.
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