Solutions Architect

IHG Hotels & Resorts; Delhi; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

IHG Hotels & Resorts is seeking an IT Architect to drive end-to-end solution architecture for Oracle HCM Cloud across HR modules such as Core HR, Payroll, and Talent. You will guide Agile delivery teams, build governance processes, and ensure architectures meet performance, security, and maintainability standards.

The role requires 10+ years in enterprise architectures, deep Oracle HCM expertise, and strong integration skills with OIC, REST/SOAP, and data platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in enterprise solution/technical architecture with Oracle HCM Cloud experience across multiple modules.
• Strong integration architecture expertise with OIC, REST/SOAP, HDL/HSDL, and HCM Extracts.
• Deep knowledge of Oracle HCM security, data, and identity architecture.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum and architecture governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural efforts of large, complex projects across multiple vendors and technologies.
• Develop proposals for integrating multiple architecture domains; manage architectural lifecycle.
• Make strategic design decisions and ensure conformance to architecture.
• Define integration architecture across HCM ecosystem including OIC and data platforms.
• Own HLDDs and architecture decisions; act as design authority.

Skills

Oracle HCM Cloud

Integration architecture

REST/SOAP

Java

Kafka

SOA / ESB

Security & identity design

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in relevant field

Tools

OIC (Oracle Integration Cloud)

HDL/HSDL

HCM Extracts

Tableau

SAML/OAuth

Job description

The IT Architect is a member of a team delivering new technology capabilities to the Company's owners, customers, and partners within the organization. The IT Architect helps set the vision and parameters that Agile delivery teams operation within. In addition, the IT Architect helps build and support governance processes that ensure that team deliverables meet the Company's standards for performance, availability, quality, security, and maintainability.

Key Accountabilities

• Leads the architectural efforts of large, complex projects (e.g., a family of products or IT services) involving multiple vendors, multiple technologies, leading-edge technologies, and broad implications for architecture and develops roadmap incorporating industry best practices.
• Leads the development of complex proposals related to integrating multiple architecture domains (i.e., process, application, data, infrastructure).
• Manages the architectural lifecycle, ensuring that engineering and maintenance phases conform to the architecture.
• Makes strategic decisions about system design, implementation, and maintenance.
• Analyzes systems and processes from end to end.
• Analyzes quality attributes of solutions and evaluates the technical and economic feasibility of proposed solutions.
• Interacts with clients or senior management in geographically and/or socially diverse teams on strategic operations, serving as an expert in several specialties or components.
• Participates as a member of a team to assess and recommend a migration strategy to new technologies.
• Stays current on latest technologies and trends.
• Own the end-to-end solution architecture across Oracle HCM Cloud modules - Core HR, Payroll, Time & Labor/Absence, Benefits, Compensation, Talent, Recruiting, and Learning.
• Lead fit-gap analysis and solution-option evaluation; recommend configure-vs-extend-vs-integrate approaches with clear trade-offs.
• Author and own high-level design documents (HLDDs) and solution blueprints that translate requirements into executable designs.
• Act as design authority in architecture and design reviews; approve significant technical decisions and keep the platform coherent.
• Define the integration architecture across the HCM ecosystem - Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), REST/SOAP services, HDL/HSDL, HCM Extracts, and event/atom feeds - connecting UKG Pro WFM, enterprise data platforms, the LMS, ServiceNow, and identity systems.
• Establish data architecture standards: data models, lineage, mastering, reconciliation, and quality across upstream and downstream systems.
• Set patterns for resilient, secure, and observable integrations.

Security, Identity & Compliance by Design

• Architect HCM security - role design, data security, and segregation of duties - as a first-class part of every solution.
• Design identity and access flows across Oracle HCM, identity/access management (e.g., MyID/OIM), and SSO (SAML/OAuth), including the joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle.
• Embed statutory, tax, and regional compliance requirements (including complex markets such as EMEAA/Japan) into solution designs, and ensure controls over sensitive transactions are designed in, not bolted on.
• Own and evolve the target-state architecture and technical roadmap for the platform, including modernization (e.g., Redwood UI), extension strategy (PaaS/VBCS), and technical-debt reduction.
• Assess Oracle's roadmap and new/AI-GenAI capabilities, advising which to adopt, when, and how.
• Perform architectural impact analysis for Oracle's quarterly release cycle and vendor changes.

Key Skills & Experiences

Education –

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work related experience.

Experience –

• 10+ years in enterprise solution/technical architecture, with deep, hands-on Oracle HCM Cloud architecture experience across multiple modules.

Technical skills and Knowledge –

• Technical mastery and competency in all architecture, with vast knowledge of the capabilities and constraints of technologies supported.
• Understanding of the designs and technology footprints of multiple products within a product family.
• Champion engineering process disciplines (e.g., Scrum, Agile, Kanban, ITIL).
• Champion industry process improvement programs (e.g., CMMI, IOS-9000, FDA, Six Sigma).
• Proven ownership of end-to-end solution designs, HLDDs, and architecture decisions on large, complex programs.
• Strong integration architecture expertise with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), REST/SOAP, HDL/HSDL, and HCM Extracts.
• Deep understanding of Oracle HCM security, data, and identity architecture.
• Strong grasp of non-functional design (performance, scalability, resilience, security).
• Excellent communication and influencing skills; able to be the authoritative technical voice with both engineers and executives.

Middleware Focused:

• Java
• ESB e.g. Fuse
• REST
• Enterprise Caching Architectures e.g. Gemfire
• Service Oriented Architectures
• Messaging Based Architecture e.g. Kafka and MQ
• Public Facing APIs and API Gateways
• Data Transformation and ETL

Data Focused:

• Data Design Principles and Best Practices
• Reporting and Analytics Design Platforms
• Data Platforms knowledge for Data Residency decisions (Teradata, Oracle, no-SQL databases)
• BI tools (OBI, Business Objects, Tableau, Essbase, Alteryx)
• Analytic Tools (SAS, R)
• Decision Science Experience, Including Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence
• Forecast and Demand Planning Applications