This role is an exciting opportunity for an Oracle Fusion Solution Architect to join our growing Oracle Fusion team where they will be instrumental in defining, designing, and governing the Bank-wide use of Oracle Fusion Cloud applications and related services! Flexible Working Options This role is open to flexible working patterns, these may include: Job share, Flexible start and end time to each day, ability to adapt calendar as needed, this could be to fit in the school run, gym, or appointments. A 50% in-office attendance requirement can be spread across the month to accommodate diverse working patterns, such as the flexibility to purchase a weekly train ticket for certain weeks, compressed hours (subject to approval and policy within the team), working from abroad policy (subject to approval and policy within the team).

A Day in the Role On any given day you will be supporting a broad range of services, which might include the following:

• Define and champion the architectural vision and roadmap for the enterprise Oracle Fusion Cloud platform, encompassing application, integration, data, and security layers.
• Planning, implementing, and driving solution delivery plans and resources and governance
• Working with stakeholders and third parties to understand and identify requirements and process and matching against the solution Design.
• Lead complex solution design efforts for enterprise-wide Oracle Fusion initiatives, ensuring alignment with the overall platform strategy and technical standards.
• Challenging constructively and assessing overall Design, Build and Test process and service effectiveness, and progress of the various Oracle Fusion solutions being delivered by creating/reviewing configuration designs, workflows and processes and by delivering progress reports, presentations, financials and other key management information associated with software delivery.
• Work with team members to define and standardize enterprise integration patterns for Oracle Fusion with other enterprise systems (on-premise and cloud) using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), API Gateway, Streaming, and other OCI services.
• Architect comprehensive data strategies for Oracle Fusion, including data migration, data quality, master data management (MDM), and advanced analytics leveraging Oracle Reporting Solutions (e.g. FDI/OAC/BIP etc).
• Lead architectural governance reviews by 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.
• Internal and external stakeholder management across a diverse set of senior level collaborators who may have contending priorities
• Leading the Change Request Process for the SaaS delivery teams in the ERP Team and assessing their impacts on design and build and costs and timelines.
• You may be responsible for day-to-day management of Oracle Fusion SME's, defining roles and responsibilities, setting objectives, and defining tasks.

Role Requirements This role requires a deep understanding of Oracle Fusion architecture, core SaaS modules and capabilities and PaaS services used by it, integration patterns, and security best practices.

Within DGCIO CS&G you will work with people who are passionate about delivering high quality products and services. Unlike many large organisations, we provide both engineering and development in-house and this internal expertise allows us to understand the diverse needs of our historic institution, and work using agile methodologies to deliver them.

The Digital Enterprise Services Domain The DES Domain is accountable for the provision of enterprise systems and services that support core business and technology functions across the Bank.

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Platform that includes but is not exclusive to ERP and Human Capital Management (HCM) including core HR, payroll, order processing, accounting, budgeting and resource management
• Power Platform and Application Cloud Services for services such as core Bank-wide D365, RTGS, PRA supervision and customer contact information and insight, Azure applications including the Bank's website hosted in Azure using Kubernetes.

Essential Criteria We are interested in hearing from candidates who have the following capabilities:

• Demonstrable experience in designing and overseeing the development of custom applications, extensions, and integrations using Oracle PaaS services (e.g., Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS), Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET), Oracle APEX, Functions).
• Solid experience in designing data strategies for Oracle Fusion, including data migration, master data management, and using Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC), Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW), and other OCI data services.
• Ability to set direction for the Oracle SaaS products in the Bank, provide authoritative guidance on the designs and roadmaps, and provide oversight to the Tech delivery teams.
• Exceptional problem-solving, and critical thinking skills, with the ability to define long-term platform roadmaps.
• Superior communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills, capable of influencing and articulating complex technical concepts to both technical and executive partners.
• Ability to produce clear, concise, and comprehensive technical documentation.
• Strong analytical skills; able to produce and report critical information and patterns from complex data, producing accurate conclusions and recommendations.

We encourage flexible working, part time working and job share arrangements. We offer a salary as follows: Leeds circa £84,960 - £95,580 In addition, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package.

• A non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of your annual salary for every year worked.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• An 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 26 days' annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.

Our Approach to Inclusion The Bank values diversity, equity and inclusion. We play a key role in maintaining monetary and financial stability, and to do that effectively, we believe we need a workforce that reflects the society we serve.