Functional Architect (PPM

Functional Architect

The Functional Architect provides functional design leadership across Project Portfolio Management capabilities, ensuring business requirements, business processes, and system functionality are translated into coherent, scalable, and globally standardised solutions.

The role acts as the bridge between Business Architecture, Process Leadership, Subject Matter Experts, Delivery teams, and Oracle Fusion solution design. The Functional Architect is accountable for functional integrity, ensuring solutions align to the Global Target Operating Model, support business outcomes, and remain sustainable over the long term.

Functional Solution Design

• Translate approved business requirements and process designs into detailed functional solution designs.
• Define functional rules, business logic, process flows, data requirements, and solution behaviours.
• Ensure functional solutions remain aligned to enterprise process standards and target operating models.
• Identify opportunities for simplification, standardisation, and reuse across regions and business functions.

Functional Architecture Leadership

• Act as the functional design authority for assigned business capabilities and Oracle Fusion modules.
• Provide expert guidance on Oracle capability and solution options.
• Assess impacts, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs associated with design decisions.
• Ensure functional decisions consider upstream and downstream process implications across the end-to-end process landscape.
• Partner with Business Architects, Global Process Owners, and Global Process Leads to ensure solution alignment with the Global Target Operating Model.
• Ensure process intent is accurately reflected within functional solution design.
• Challenge requirements and design assumptions where improvements in standardisation, scalability, or operational efficiency can be achieved.
• Support design governance forums and decision-making processes.

Delivery and Change Support

• Provide functional leadership throughout design, build, testing, deployment, and stabilisation activities.
• Review solution configuration against approved functional requirements and design intent.
• Support business testing, defect resolution, and functional issue triage.
• Assess the impact of Oracle quarterly releases, enhancements, and change requests.

Governance and Assurance

• Participate in design reviews, architecture reviews, and governance forums.
• Ensure solutions comply with global standards, approved design principles, and architectural decisions.
• Support creation of functional specifications, design documentation, and decision records.
• Provide assurance that functional designs remain aligned to business objectives throughout delivery.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with SMEs, regional stakeholders, Finance, Operations, Shared Services, Business Architecture, IT, and Delivery teams.
• Facilitate workshops and design sessions to obtain clarity and consensus on complex topics.
• Translate technical solution concepts into business language that supports informed decision making.
• Build strong relationships across business and technology communities.

Key Interfaces:
• Global Process Owner
• Global Process Lead
• Business Architects
• Subject Matter Experts
• Solution Architects
• Enterprise Architecture
• Regional Business Representatives
• Shared Services
• Operations Teams
• Finance Teams
• Delivery Teams
• AMS and Support Functions
• Project and Programme Leadership

AccountabilityAccountable for:

• Functional coherence and integrity.
• Alignment between approved business process design and functional solution design.
• Functional standardisation and consistency across regions.
• Fitness of functional design to support operational execution.

Experience and Capability Requirements

Essential

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 12+ years relevant experience
• Strong functional expertise within Project Portfolio Management processes and Oracle Fusion PPM.
• Demonstrated experience operating as a Functional Architect, Lead Functional Consultant, or senior solution design practitioner.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end project lifecycle processes including project setup, forecasting, cost management, billing, revenue, and project close.
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