Enterprise Architect - Oracle Fusion (ERP/SCM

Location: Massachusetts (Onsite role) KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Design and establish the enterprise architecture practice from scratch, including its charter, operating model, services, engagement model with the IT PMO and delivery teams, and success metrics. Define and publish architecture principles, standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns covering applications, integration, data, security, and cloud. Stand up an Architecture Review Board (ARB) with a regular cadence, clear decision rights, and a lightweight review process that improves quality without slowing delivery. Select and implement EA tooling and a single source of truth for the application portfolio, capability map, interfaces, and technical standards. Build the architecture team over time, hiring and mentoring solution, integration, and data architects as the practice matures. Enterprise Architecture Strategy & Roadmap Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture vision and multi-year roadmap, aligning applications, data, integration, and infrastructure with business objectives and growth priorities. Create and maintain business capability maps and current/target-state architectures; identify gaps, redundancies, and rationalization opportunities across the application portfolio. Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI capabilities within Oracle and Salesforce, and recommend adoption paths that deliver measurable business value. Define architecture patterns for integrating acquired businesses onto Chase platforms to accelerate M&A integration and realize synergies. Serve as the lead architect for Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and SCM, including Financials, Procurement, Order Management, Inventory, Manufacturing, and related modules. Own the Oracle Fusion solution design authority: enterprise structures, legal entity and ledger design, chart of accounts, and security and role design, including segregation of duties. Enforce a standard-first approach, governing configuration versus extension decisions and use of Oracle Visual Builder, PaaS extensions, and Redwood UX. Ensure the Oracle Fusion environment remains upgrade-safe and aligned with Oracle's quarterly update cadence, with regression testing and impact analysis built into the release process. Define the Salesforce architecture and org strategy across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and related clouds, including data model, security and sharing model, and environment strategy. Establish Salesforce development, release, and DevOps standards, balancing declarative configuration with custom development and governing managed packages and AppExchange usage. Design the quote-to-cash and customer data flows between Salesforce and Oracle Fusion, ensuring a consistent customer, product, pricing, and order record across systems. Define the enterprise integration strategy and standards, including API-led connectivity, event-driven patterns, and appropriate use of batch, real-time, and file-based integration. Establish Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and/or middleware standards, reusable integration patterns, naming conventions, error handling, monitoring, and alerting. Govern use of Oracle Fusion REST/SOAP APIs, FBDI, HDL, and business events, as well as Salesforce APIs and platform events. Maintain an enterprise interface inventory and ensure integrations are secure, observable, documented, and supportable. Define the enterprise data and reporting architecture, with FDAIP as the analytics foundation for Oracle Fusion ERP and SCM data and a clear strategy for blending Salesforce and other source data. Establish reporting best practices and a clear decision framework for when to use OTBI, BI Publisher, FDAIP, Salesforce reporting, or enterprise BI tools. Partner with finance and business leaders to define a governed semantic layer, certified KPIs, and a single source of truth for key metrics. Establish data governance standards, including master data management (customer, supplier, item), data quality, lineage, retention, and access controls. Architecture Governance, Security & Compliance Embed architecture review into the project lifecycle so that major initiatives are assessed for fit, reuse, cost, risk, and alignment with standards. Partner with cybersecurity to ensure architectures meet identity and access, data protection, and privacy requirements, including single sign-on and role-based access across platforms. Ensure architecture supports SOX controls, audit requirements, and business continuity and disaster recovery objectives. QUALIFICATIONS Experience & Background 12+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in enterprise or solution architecture roles. Deep, hands-on expertise in Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and SCM, with lead architect experience on at least two full-lifecycle Oracle Fusion implementations. Hands-on experience with FDAIP and Oracle reporting tools (OTBI, BI Publisher), including designing analytics solutions for finance and supply chain. Strong Salesforce architecture experience across Sales and/or Service Cloud, including integration with ERP platforms. Proven expertise in enterprise integration architecture using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) or comparable iPaaS/middleware platforms, APIs, and event-driven patterns. Demonstrated experience building an architecture practice, ARB, or architecture governance function, ideally from the ground up. Experience supporting technology integration for mergers and acquisitions in a growth-oriented company. Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain complex architecture decisions to executives and influence without direct authority. Certifications (Preferred) Salesforce Certified Application or System Architect (or Technical Architect) Oracle Integration Cloud or cloud platform certifications (OCI, AWS, or Azure) Education Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field - required. #J-18808-Ljbffr Simplify Software Experts LLC/ Simpli Software Solutions Inc