Peoplesoft & Fusion Solutions Architect Oracle - Colombes, Paris - Colombes, Paris (France)

Job Description

Company Overview
Oracle is the world’s most complete, open and integrated business software and hardware systems company. With more than 100,000 professionals, working in over 150 countries around the world, Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is engineered to work together as a single system. Oracle's industry-leading products give customers unmatched benefits including unbreakable security, high availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership. Oracle has the best of breed technology at every layer of the stack. All the way from hardware to applications.
 
 
 
Oracle EMEA Consulting Overview
 
Oracle’s EMEA Consulting Business has an extremely high profile with customers. We understand and analyze their IT problems and opportunities, then provide the best Oracle technology solutions.
 
Oracle runs its EMEA Consulting Services organization with a geographical and product focus. We have separate Applications and Technology businesses working jointly in Western Europe and, due to the different nature of that market, we run ECEMEA (Eastern & Central Europe, Middle East and Africa) with an integrated approach.
 
Oracle’s Western European Application Consulting Business is based on 3 clusters: UK, Northern Europe and Southern Europe which are P&L responsible and provide project management and Architect type of skills set. From a pure delivery perspective, the Solution Lines are providing all type of consulting experiences from Juniors to Seniors.
 
Applications Solutions Lines are: ERP (e-Business Suite, JD Edwards, Hyperion EPM, Agile PLM, ...), CRM (Siebel, RightNow, ...), HCM (Fusion HCM, Taleo, eBusiness Suite and PeopleSoft) and Tax.
 
Purpose
 
The Solution Architects Team in France is part of the Southern Europe Cluster within the Western European Consulting Applications Group. The Project Management & Solution Architecture groups are reporting into the France Profit and Loss leader, who is leading consulting sales, project management and solution architecture.
 
Responsibilities
The Peoplesoft & Fusion Functional/Solution Architect must be able to cover the following task in their job function:

• Identify the appropriate software architecture based on the requirements and design elements contained in a system specification.
• Understand the product technologies to be used and apply them appropriately.
• Analyse software requirements, define solution parameters and specifications.
• Conduct formal workshops with the client together requirements, displaying knowledge of the business environment in defining the customer’s needs
• Produce the estimations of the solution and involved in the high level planning and implementation methodology of the project.
• Lead the function design process. Facilitate design workshops.
• Take the lead on understanding new products (integration, new features and cost of projects).
• Manage the fact-finding, analysis and development of projects.
• Assess business and technical impacts of solutions.
• Assist software developers with the creation of detailed software design specifications.
• Perform software version control and maintain periodic compilation schedule.

Desired Skills & Experience

Skills and Experience
 

• Education level/Qualifications: University degree in relevant field
• At least 8-10 years professional experience in IT
• At least 5-8 years professional experience as a Functional/Solution Architect
• Strong knowledge in On Premise & SAAS implementation & architecture
• Able to apply professional mastery and industry-wide understanding of technology, tools and methodologies to develop solutions in leading edge or critical situations.
• Expert in business process area and integrations.
• Superior ability to understand, articulate and address business issues, business drivers and needs.
• Able to plan and facilitate design sessions.  Able to influence direction of a senior management group in/outside design sessions.
• Able to conceptualise a solution of significant scope, across multiple business processes.
• Able to manage the client’s expectations so that the resultant system meets their budget and time constraints.
• Viewed by customers as a trusted adviser

• Good understanding of consulting processes
• Very good presentation and communication skills

• French as native language, good level in English.

Company Description

With more than 380,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—and with deployments across a wide variety of industries in more than 145 countries around the globe, Oracle offers an optimized and fully integrated stack of business hardware and software systems. Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center–from servers and storage, to database and middleware, through applications. Learn more about Oracle http://oracle.com/us/corporate