What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transformation - Oracle Solution Architect Director position at Grant Thornton - US?
As an Oracle Director, you’ll perform advisory and implementation services to address business needs throughout client organizations for the Transformation Practice – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel.
From day one, you’ll be empowered by the greater Transformation team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.
Your day-to-day may include:
- Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, & build phases
- Responsible for documenting business requirements, system design and transformational goals
- Configure applications and conduct iterative unit testing
- Help to create training materials and quick reference guides to support user adoption
- Conduct training classes to prepare end users for deployment
- Provide post-production support
- Participate in full life cycle implementations
- Assist in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
- Communicate effectively in an organized and knowledgeable manner to senior audiences, able to deliver difficult messages with persuasiveness and sensitivity
- Drive the development of business cases (financial, quantitative, and qualitative) to support strategic business initiatives, process improvement initiatives, or IT transformations
- Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
- Coach and develop team members
- Demonstrate executive presence
- Contribute to the development of various service offerings and practice thought leadership
- Other duties as assigned
You have the following technical skills and qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, Information Technology, MIS, or related field required, Master’s degree is a plus
- Minimum 6 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level
- Minimum of 5 full life cycle implementations of Oracle
- Industry recognized professional certification required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics, and reports
- Experience with application integration & back-end data connectivity applications
- Experience installing/configuring/implementing Oracle Applications
- Exposure or training on Oracle Cloud Applications
- Knowledge of Oracle Cloud Applications
- Proven ability delivering complex and time sensitive projects
- Strong leadership skills, able to conduct meetings and write technically oriented documents
- Able to work with clients to understand current state processes and define future state processes based on business objectives
- Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 40%