Sr Solutions Architect: Oracle Financials

Why WWT?

At World Wide Technology, we work together to make a new world happen. Our important work benefits our clients and partners as much as it does our people and communities across the globe. WWT is dedicated to achieving its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is also a Great Place to Work for All. We achieve this through our world-class culture, generous benefits, and by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions for our clients.

Founded in 1990, World Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology solutions provider leading the AI and Digital Revolution, with $20 billion in annual revenue, combines the power of strategy, execution, and partnership to accelerate digital transformational outcomes for large public and private organizations around the world. Through its Advanced Technology Center, a collaborative ecosystem of the world's most advanced hardware and software solutions, WWT helps customers and partners conceptualize, test, and validate innovative technology solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale through its global warehousing, distribution, and integration capabilities.

With nearly 10,000 employees and more than 55 locations around the world, WWT's culture, built on a set of core values and established leadership philosophies, has been recognized 13 years in a row by Fortune and Great Place to Work for its unique blend of determination, innovation, and leadership focus on diversity and inclusion. With this culture at its foundation, WWT bridges the gap between business and technology to make a new world happen for its customers, partners, and communities.

World Wide Technology, Inc., currently has an opportunity for a senior solutions Architect, Oracle Financials, to support the fast-paced and dynamic Internal IT Department in St. Louis, MO.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze Business Processes, capture macro-level business requirements, and help guide the solution path on Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials and EBS Financials: PA, PC, AP, AR, GL, FA

• Working closely with process architects and other solutions architects aligned to different value streams to build a longer-term Oracle financials solution strategy.

• Establish short-term and long-term solution roadmaps to meet business demands.

• Collaborate with the product management and delivery teams to drive the implementation according to the roadmap.

• Evaluate the current solution and application architecture to identify and address the gaps.

• Negotiate different solution options within the Oracle platform to meet business demands without increasing technical debt.

• Identify the shortest route to fail fast to help speed up solution delivery.

• Mentor and provide developmental support to different product delivery teams.

• Balance long-term planning, technical debt management, operational load, and team velocity while shipping new features.

• Establish and maintain feature-technology mapping and drive governance around that.

Extensive Oracle Experience: Over 15 years of experience in Oracle implementation, support, or application integration as an analyst or consultant.

ERP Finance Architecture: At least 5 years of experience in architecting composable solutions for different finance functions with Oracle Fusion Cloud as a core solution.

Domain-Specific Expertise: Over 5 years of experience in field services, staffing services, or consulting services, specifically implementing Oracle Project Accounting, Costing, and Billing on Fusion Cloud.

System Configuration Knowledge: In-depth understanding of system configuration and options for various Fusion Cloud Financial modules.

Leadership Experience: More than 3 years of technology leadership experience, with direct or dotted line reporting, demonstrating success metrics defined by the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

API Integration Experience: At least 3 years of experience in API lifecycle management application integrations, preferably with Oracle suite applications like Oracle SOA or OIC.

Advanced Functional and Technical Knowledge: Proficiency in key related Oracle modules such as Order Management (OM), Purchasing (PO), Inventory (INV), and Project Portfolio Management (PPM).

Customization and Extension Skills: Well-versed in extending and customizing Fusion Cloud solutions using Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS).

Application Lifecycle Development: Full application lifecycle development experience using multiple frameworks.

Communication Skills: Strong verbal and nonverbal communication skills, with the ability to deliver effective presentations.

Designing Solutions

• Mapping what is built and how it is built to business needs

• Identifying technical and functional gaps & design flaws

• Employing a future-forward, broader view in how solutions are built: minimizing tech debt

Defining & Maintaining Standards

• Developing and documenting technical & functional patterns and best practices

• Communicating and enforcing these and other standards established by the Architecture team to delivery teams

• Bridging the communication/consistency gap between teams: spreading solutions coming out of Enterprise Architecture to and between delivery teams

Aligning Functionality & Technology

• Deciding which problems are solved with which technology platforms

Selection & Introduction of Technology

• Identifying when incumbent technologies don't meet needs

• Spearheading the New Technology Process (NTP) to address these gaps

• Implementing NTP-selected technology platforms and driving adoption into delivery teams

Strategic Planning

• Developing longer-term business capability and technology plans that span all of IT & advocating for them with Product Owners and Management

• Rationalizing applications: consolidating duplicate business functionality into single products