Solution Readiness Lead

Solution Readiness Lead

Workforce Transformation practice

London

You want to boost your career and collaborate with expert, talented colleagues to solve and deliver against our clients' most important challenges? We are growing and are looking for people to join our team. You will be part of an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment of 300,000 employees. Our dynamic organization allows you to work across functional business pillars, contributing your ideas, experiences, diverse thinking, and a strong mindset.

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The Solution Readiness Lead is responsible for driving solution readiness, stakeholder engagement and delivery coordination of solution readiness activities for different organisations. Acting as a bridge between functional and technical teams between the UOs and the Central Design team, the role focuses on translating global design into technical concepts, ensuring readiness across process, data, interfaces and reporting.

• Serve as the programme’s primary technical authority for the enterprise workforce solution and Oracle HCM Cloud platform.
• Bridge technical architecture with business objectives, ensuring clarity for governance and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Provide expert technical guidance, recommendations, and impact assessments to the Programme Steering Committee.
• Lead and participate in solution webinars, functional workshops, and show‑and‑tell sessions to maintain comprehensive solution insight.
• Develop a cross‑domain understanding of functional areas, integrations, data models, security, reporting, and migration architecture.
• Act as the programme’s go‑to expert for system capabilities, limitations, and design constraints.

• Lead and coordinate the end‑to‑end requirement gathering process across technical, functional, and governance work streams.
• Facilitate structured workshops with SMEs to capture, validate, and refine requirements.
• Ensure requirements are robustly documented and transition smoothly into design, configuration, and delivery activities.

• Ensure business processes, functional needs, and technical requirements are tightly aligned across all domains.
• Translate functional outcomes into clear technical specifications and system behaviours.
• Own the end‑to‑end traceability between business requirements, functional design, and technical implementation.
• Identify and articulate the impact of technical constraints on business processes, ensuring stakeholders understand implications and trade‑offs.
• Prevent misalignment between business expectations and solution capabilities by proactively managing design decisions.

• Proactively identify technical and functional risks that could impact timeline, scope, or quality.
• Own the technical elements of the RAID log, including assessment of probability, impact, mitigations, and escalation pathways.
• Ensure that technical risk management is fully integrated across programme governance.

• Act as the central coordination point across the Programme Support Team, UO SMEs, Steering Group members, Transformation leads, and Change enablers.
• Build strong working relationships across technical, functional, and business communities to support consistent decision‑making.
• Influence and align senior stakeholders, including C‑suite and governance bodies, on key technical and architectural decisions.
• Strong senior level stakeholder engagement, including executive and governance audiences.
• Proven experience delivering complex SaaS / enterprise platforms.
• Background in HR transformation or Oracle HCM Cloud architecture.

• Strong grounding in enterprise system architecture, integrations, APIs, and data management principles.
• Expertise with enterprise HR / workforce platforms, ideally Oracle HCM Cloud.
• Knowledge of identity and access management, security models, and ITSM frameworks.
• Experience with data migration strategies, data quality governance, and data mapping.

• Delivery experience within large transformation…