Oracle EPM Architect

HCLTech; Burbank (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney is seeking an experienced Oracle EPM Architect to provide strategic architecture leadership, design oversight, and technical guidance across our EPM transformation initiatives. This role will partner closely with Disney business and technology teams to ensure scalable, sustainable, and business-aligned solutions.

This position emphasizes governance, release management, and operational excellence, while mentoring teams and aligning Oracle capabilities with future business needs.

Qualifications

• Experience as an Oracle EPM architect with leadership in enterprise deployments.
• Ability to design and govern end-to-end EPM solutions including Planning, EDM, integrations, and reporting.
• Strong guidance on metadata, master data, and data governance in EPM contexts.
• Proven capability to mentor teams and conduct independent design reviews.
• Experience aligning architecture with business strategy and enterprise goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end EPM architecture and design leadership across initiatives.
• Advise on EDM design, data governance, and master data strategy.
• Review and optimize EPM dimensions, cubes, and applications for performance and scalability.
• Guide integration architecture, data flows, orchestration, and automation.
• Establish architecture governance, release management, and operational excellence.
• Mentor Disney architects, product owners, and delivery partners.

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Oracle EPM Architect to provide strategic architecture leadership, design oversight, and technical guidance across our EPM transformation initiatives. This role will partner closely with Disney business and technology teams to ensure scalable, sustainable, and business-aligned solutions. This role will provide experienced architectural leadership that helps Disney make informed decisions, accelerate delivery, reduce risk, and implement a scalable EPM platform that supports both current business requirements and future growth.

Key Responsibilities

1. End-to-End Solution Architecture & Design Leadership

• Review and guide overall EPM solution architecture across Planning, EDM, integrations, reporting, and future-state capabilities.
• Actively participate in design discussions, providing recommendations and challenge where appropriate to ensure adherence to architectural best practices.
• Advise on Enterprise Data Management (EDM) design, hierarchy governance, metadata management, and master data strategy.
• Review and optimize dimension, cube, and application design for performance, scalability, maintainability, and future growth.
• Provide guidance on integration architecture, including upstream/downstream system impacts, data flows, orchestration, and automation.
• Help navigate Disney-specific business complexities, data structures, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Review and validate the EPM strategic roadmap to ensure alignment with business objectives and broader enterprise architecture principles.
• Develop and refine conceptual and target-state architecture models.
• Identify opportunities for simplification, standardization, and optimization across the EPM ecosystem.
• Assess architectural implications of future business requirements and emerging Oracle capabilities.
• Provide recommendations on sequencing initiatives and technical debt reduction.

3. Governance, Release Management & Operational Excellence

• Establish and advise on architecture governance processes, design reviews, and decision frameworks.
• Provide release management guidance, including deployment strategies, environment management, migration planning, and change control practices.
• Review impacts of quarterly Oracle updates and recommend adoption strategies for new functionality.
• Support risk identification and mitigation planning related to architecture, performance, integrations, and data management.
• Advise on operational support models, issue management, and sustainability planning.

4. AI & Innovation Strategy

• Ensure Disney is effectively leveraging Oracle’s latest EPM AI and intelligent automation capabilities.
• Evaluate AI-driven planning, forecasting, predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and narrative reporting opportunities.
• Recommend use cases that drive business value while aligning with governance and data quality requirements.
• Stay current on Oracle EPM product enhancements and emerging capabilities, translating innovations into actionable recommendations.

5. Technical Advisory & Mentorship

• Serve as a trusted advisor to Disney architects, product owners, functional leads, and implementation partners.
• Mentor teams on EPM design principles, architecture standards, and best practices.
• Provide independent reviews of key deliverables, solution designs, and critical architectural decisions.
• Help ensure long-term solution maintainability while balancing business needs, speed to market, and technical excellence.