Oracle CC&B Functional Architect
Virtual-US
Req#: 19535BR
Date published: 17-Jul-2014
Opportunity: Experienced Hire
Business Line: Management Consulting
Business Plan: CST
Level: 4
Provides technical or industry knowledge to contribute to the completion of multiple engagement phases. Demonstrate capabilities with moderate level of oversight and collaboration with more senior level professionals. Scope and size of projects they contribute to are generally smaller or they may own a smaller portion of a larger project. May lead a small to medium size effort or project team. May delegate team work assignments through various phases of an engagement. May manage projects from prospect to client deliverable.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Consulting Capability:
• Transfers knowledge, capabilities, and skills to improve others’ knowledge and skill levels
• Enhances established working relationships with team members and management from within the client’s organization
• Contributes to quality review on own engagements
• Ascertains and meets client expectations within scope of engagement role
• Develops applicable knowledge bases by using best practices to redefine tools and techniques. Outlines specific performance measures, targets, and goals to articulate the business case for realized efficiencies or added value
• Challenges client’s current strategy and direction through persuasive argument. Defines competitive advantage and achievable value to the client through use of the strategic change components and metrics. Formulates issue-based hypotheses and develops analytical plan for testing. Contributes to analysis of impact of strategic changes by defining linkages and interdependencies.
Industry Knowledge Capability:
• Utilizes specialized knowledge to produce moderately complex work products and solutions across many phases of an engagement or one phase of a more complex engagement
• Applies appropriate methods or recognized equivalent to identified client needs
• Anticipates and resolves technical problems with occasional technical assistance from others
• Develops, presents, and defends conclusions, recommendations, and implementation plans
• Contributes to quality reviews of assigned engagements
• Identifies technical issues impacting an engagement and proposes solutions
• Analyzes and applies best practices knowledge of the industry
Project Management Capability (where applicable):
• Manages client expectations within defined scope of engagement
• Recommends appropriate resources based on the phases of an assignment
• Delegates work to assigned team members
• Uses defined processes and practices in assessing engagement risks
• Manages engagement issues in less complex projects or escalates issues in more complex projects
Scope: Billable Hours and business development targets established in annual goal setting process.
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree or relevant work experience. Master’s degree preferred.
Typically 7+ years experience in a business/consulting environment.
Preferred Job Qualifications:
•Leads the function design process.
• Facilitates design workshops
• Negotiates and manages functional scope to reduce business and technical risks for both the client and Oracle.
• Ability to interact with business users and conceptualize the requirements into Oracle product workflows
•Understands industry business practices.
• Defines and adheres to agreed analysis and design methods.
•Ability to skills transfer to others: Junior Architects/designers and customers
• Understands the Oracle Utilities in detail the framework and product technologies to be used.
• Analyses software requirements, defines solution parameters and specifications.
•Delivers to client expectations on time and on budget, as well as delivering planned profit.
•Provide product implementation advice
• Research on solution alternatives
• Translate customer solution designs/ business requirements into high quality functional designs within agreed timeframes
• Develop/review detailed estimates based on functional designs
• Liaise with the Development Team and participate in design walkthroughs, discuss/explain functional requirements and dissect into logical functional sections
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