Skilled and experienced in a wide variety of Oracle solution design specialisms, you will support a broad range of services, which will include:
* Reviewing Business Requirements and the TOM and making sure those are mapped to an RTM.
* Advising the business on mapping their process and requirements to the Oracle Solution
* Defining, managing, challenging, and delivering the Fusion Solution Design and Build in the Programme alongside the System Integrator and the Technology Solution Architect.
* Ensuring and managing the programme compliance with architectural frameworks and policies
* Interfacing with the other departments and team member and SI to manage compliance and solution delivery.
* Planning, implementing, and driving solution delivery plans and resources and governance.
* Managing and driving solution governance and controls and delivery in the programme plans, resources, RAID (risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies), RACI, proactively proposing solutions where issues have been identified and driving them to resolution,
* Working with stakeholders and third parties to understand and identify requirements and process and matching against the solution Design.
* Leading business and Oracle processes setting out standards and tools and defining reporting within plan timetables to ensure provision of reliable and consistent information and updates.
* Challenging constructively and assessing overall Design, Build and Test process and service effectiveness, and progress of the programme by creating/reviewing configuration designs, workflows and processes delivering progress reports, presentations, financials and other key management information associated with the Project.
* Leading the Change Request Process for the Programme and assessing their impacts on design and build and costs and timelines.
* Interacting with Technical Architects and Technical Solution Designers to ensure access and security controls are adhered to and that the designs suggested are effective and can be operationalized.
* Managing, organising, and driving lessons learnt reviews and retrospectives when significant milestones are completed, capturing, and proactively disseminating the information, proposing program recommendations where appropriate.
* Internal and external stakeholder management across a diverse set of senior level stakeholders who may have competing priorities
* Driving program deliverables and timelines to successful resolution
* Supporting the Programme Director in the successful delivery of the program

Minimum (Essential) Criteria
* A proactive self-starter who can develop and maintain effective working relationships with the programme community, the wider team, stakeholders and varying levels of seniority, and external suppliers.
* Experience of working on and managing an Oracle Fusion solution in a centralized/programme on high priority, complex, business and IT programmes and projects
* Excellent Oracle Fusion Cloud Financial, Procurement, Projects, HCM and Reporting Fusion skills, MS Office skills, including Microsoft Project and Excel
* Good understanding of OCI and how SaaS solutions work alongside those PaaS resources enabled through the platform.
* Experience providing a range of core Oracle Solution Architect services and capabilities covering as a minimum or with specific focus in:
Day to Day Management of Solution plans, resources, deliverables
Leading and Driving Meetings and Boards
Creating and Managing Planning, Governance and Controls
Driving Risk and Issue Management
Creating and implementing Business and Oracle processes design and implementation
Programme Heath Checks/Assurance
Programme Gating, milestones, and deliverables
Program Financials
Change Control
Defining Governance Approaches
Lessons Learnt
PM Reporting (eg Status Reporting, Risk Review Reporting, adherence dashboards, health check reports, and reporting to support Programme Board/senior reviewers).
* Experience of producing high quality documentation, briefing papers, reports and presentations.
* Experience delivering presentations to the delivery/programme and stakeholder community (or groups within this)
* Experience managing third parties and program teams.
* Strong interpersonal and communication skills (verbal, written and presentation) with the ability to connect with and influence people at all levels of the organisation.
* Able to use judgement and provide sound justification for decisions.
* Ability to challenge constructively whilst maintaining excellent working relationships within the programme community and with stakeholders.
* Experience of working collaboratively across project and organisational boundaries to achieve shared goals.
* Strong analytical skills; able to produce and report critical information and patterns from complex data, producing accurate conclusions and recommendations.
* Experience of mentoring and coaching team members and wider PM team, including those more senior.

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