Enterprise Application Architect
**Job Description**:
This role involves developing and maintaining application strategies, roadmaps, designs, and other technical artifacts for the back-office estate. This includes systems such as Oracle EBS, Oracle Fusion, HR & Learning Management platforms, and Planning and Analytics solutions.
**Key Responsibilities:**
- Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies to enhance the back-office application ecosystem.
- Provide and assure technical roadmaps, designs, and support for the implementation, upgrade, management, and decommissioning of back-office systems in line with the client's technology strategy.
- Contribute to standards development, reference architectures, and technical strategies.
- Collaborate with product/project managers and solution designers to ensure solutions align with enterprise guardrails, technical roadmaps, and address key dependencies.
- Govern exceptions, manage technical debt, and ensure adherence to technical standards.
**Required Skills:**
- Effective communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to support and host discussions within multidisciplinary teams.
- Expertise in implementing appropriate technical governance.
- Accountability for technical assurance and compliance recommendations.
- Awareness of innovation opportunities with emerging technologies.
- Proficiency in creating, maintaining, and assuring architecture artifacts and repositories.
- Strong problem-solving skills to identify patterns and resolve issues.
- Strategic planning and risk management capabilities.
- Ability to align technical architecture with enterprise-wide standards and business needs.
**Experience:**
- Proven experience in designing and implementing end-to-end back-office solutions in an enterprise environment.
- Extensive expertise in application architecture, with a focus on Oracle EBS, Oracle Fusion, HR & Learning Management systems, and Financial Analytics platforms.
- Deep understanding of the integration capabilities of Oracle EBS, Oracle Fusion, Cornerstone, and IBM Planning Analytics.
- Knowledge of integration and file transfer systems, such as MuleSoft and Go Anywhere.
- Familiarity with architectural frameworks and tools (e.g., TOGAF, Orbus).
- Salesforce platform experience (desirable but not essential).
- Experience working in highly regulated, safety-critical environments.