Senior Oracle Sovereign Cloud Architect – Hybrid London

Ventula Consulting Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 157,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Ventula Consulting Ltd. is recruiting an experienced Oracle Sovereign Cloud Architect for a London-based transformation programme focused on Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications within Oracle's EU Sovereign Cloud.

The role is senior and client-side, responsible for sovereign cloud infrastructure, security architecture, and data residency strategy ahead of a major ERP upgrade. The position is London (King's Cross), hybrid with regular travel to Paris and Brussels, for an initial 3-month rolling

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience in Cloud or Enterprise Architecture.
• 5+ years with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Strong Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications experience on ERP/HCM implementations.
• Experience designing solutions in Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud or sovereign/government cloud.
• Knowledge of OCI architecture: tenancy, identity domains, compartments, networking, security.
• Experience with identity federation, SSO, MFA, privileged access management.
• Strong OCI networking knowledge.
• Encryption and key management expertise.
• Experience in cloud security within highly regulated environments.
• Knowledge of UK/EU GDPR, data residency, data transfers.
• Experience with integration architecture across enterprise apps.
• Excellent stakeholder management.
• OCI Architect Professional certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead the cloud architecture workstream for Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and HCM transformation.
• Design and define the Oracle EU Sovereign Cloud architecture, tenancy, compartments and admin.
• Develop identity and access management solutions (SSO, MFA, federation, PAM, provisioning).
• Define cloud networking architecture and secure integrations with enterprise systems.
• Establish encryption, key management and security controls for sensitive data.
• Ensure GDPR compliance, data residency and cross-border data transfers.
• Design resilience, disaster recovery, backup, monitoring and cloud security operations.
• Assess availability of Oracle Cloud services within sovereign regions.
• Define governance for AI services and AI agents in the sovereign cloud.
• Develop architecture documentation and tender specs; support partner evaluation.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, security teams, infrastructure teams and SI partners.

Skills

Cloud architecture

OCI expertise

Oracle Fusion Cloud

Identity management

SSO MFA

Security architecture

Data residency

AI on OCI

Stakeholder mgmt

Regulated industries

Education

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional certification

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Ventula Consulting Ltd. is recruiting an experienced Oracle Sovereign Cloud Architect for a London-based transformation programme focused on Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications within Oracle's EU Sovereign Cloud.

The role is senior and client-side, responsible for sovereign cloud infrastructure, security architecture, and data residency strategy ahead of a major ERP upgrade. The position is London (King's Cross), hybrid with regular travel to Paris and Brussels, for an initial 3-month rolling