Oracle Primavera Cloud (OPC) Solution Architect (Nashville, TN)

Oracle•Nashville, TN

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About The Position

The Oracle Primavera Cloud (OPC) Solution Architect is an advanced individual contributor who designs, configures, integrates, and continually improves OPC solutions for Global Program Controls and large-scale data center infrastructure delivery. The role brings together expertise in Oracle Primavera Cloud, project and program controls, scheduling, cost management, data architecture, and systems integration. It works autonomously across moderately complex initiatives and partners with Program Controls, Construction, Engineering, Finance, Procurement, Technology, and other stakeholders. The architect improves system capabilities, standardizes program controls processes, raises data quality, and enables portfolio-level visibility. The role may lead projects, workstreams, standards, and improvement initiatives, and provides technical oversight and mentorship to junior team members. It supports the full solution lifecycle, including requirements discovery, design, configuration, integrations, reporting, testing, deployment, stabilization, governance, and continuous improvement. The position is based in Nashville, Tennessee. The stated U.S. hiring range is $90,100 to $209,500 per annum, with potential eligibility for bonus and equity. Oracle describes a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage; disability and life insurance; flexible spending accounts; commuter benefits; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid time off and holidays; paid sick leave; parental leave; adoption assistance; an employee stock purchase plan; financial planning and group legal services; and voluntary insurance benefits.

Requirements

12 or more years of relevant experience in project controls, enterprise applications, construction technology, program management systems, solution architecture, or a related discipline.
Significant hands-on experience with Oracle Primavera Cloud in an enterprise or large capital-project environment.
Advanced knowledge of OPC configuration, administration, workspace and project structures, permissions, workflows, reporting, and application capabilities.
Strong understanding of project and program controls, including scheduling, cost management, forecasting, risk, change management, progress measurement, and performance reporting.
Experience designing solutions for complex capital construction, infrastructure, engineering, or asset-intensive programs.
Strong understanding of Critical Path Method scheduling and enterprise scheduling concepts.
Experience translating business requirements into functional and technical solution designs.
Experience with enterprise system integrations, APIs, data mapping, data validation, and integration troubleshooting.
Working knowledge of data structures, relational data concepts, APIs, JSON, and SQL.
Ability to independently solve moderately complex problems involving multiple variables, stakeholders, dependencies, and potential outcomes.
Experience leading projects, workstreams, process improvements, or system implementations without direct managerial authority.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, documentation, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work effectively across functions and Lines of Business.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting data center, hyperscale, mission-critical, semiconductor, energy, or other complex infrastructure programs.
Experience with Primavera P6 and interoperability or migration between P6 and OPC.
Experience with Oracle Unifier, Oracle ERP, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Analytics, or related Oracle technologies.
Experience integrating project controls platforms with ERP, procurement, contract management, data warehouse, or business intelligence solutions.
Knowledge of earned value management, quantitative risk analysis, schedule risk analysis, cost engineering, or construction claims concepts.
Experience with Power BI, Oracle Analytics, or similar reporting technologies.
Experience establishing enterprise standards, templates, governance models, or centers of excellence for project controls technology.
Experience working with general contractors, engineering firms, system integrators, and other external delivery partners.
Relevant certifications such as PMP, PMI-SP, AACE, Oracle Cloud, or comparable credentials.

Responsibilities

Design, configure, and implement scalable OPC solutions for planning, scheduling, cost management, risk, change, portfolio management, and performance reporting.
Translate business and program controls requirements into functional designs, system configurations, workflows, data structures, and integration requirements.
Develop and maintain OPC workspace, program, project, and portfolio architecture aligned with organizational standards.
Define project templates, coding structures, calendars, cost breakdown structures, reporting hierarchies, configured fields, workflows, and security models.
Evaluate OPC capabilities and recommend solutions considering business requirements, system limitations, implementation effort, risk, and maintainability.
Maintain architecture, configuration, and operating documentation.
Partner with Program Controls stakeholders to support planning and scheduling, baselines and forecasts, milestones, cost and budget control, cash flow, change and contingency management, risk, progress measurement, and portfolio reporting.
Promote standardized controls processes while allowing appropriate flexibility for regional, program, and project-specific needs.
Identify opportunities to reduce manual processes, improve data consistency, increase workflow automation, and implement consistent project controls standards.
Apply advanced scheduling knowledge, including Critical Path Method scheduling, schedule logic, float, constraints, baselines, progress updates, and forecast scenarios.
Support OPC and Primavera P6 integration and alignment, and develop standards for milestones, schedule coding, calendars, activity structures, and schedule reporting.
Help teams identify schedule quality issues and improve planning and schedule-data consistency.
Configure and support OPC budgets, forecasts, commitments, actuals, cash flow, cost breakdown structures, and change management.
Work with Finance, Procurement, and Program Controls to define cost-data flows and reconciliation processes, and support consistent tracking of variance, contingency, exposure, changes, and financial performance.
Ensure cost-control configurations align with portfolio and executive reporting requirements.
Define integration requirements between OPC and enterprise platforms, including ERP, Primavera P6, procurement, contract management, data warehouses, reporting platforms, and other project controls systems.
Partner with engineering and integration teams on API-based and batch integrations; define mapping, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and exception-handling requirements.
Support system-of-record responsibilities and data ownership across the program controls technology ecosystem.
Troubleshoot integration, configuration, and data-quality issues and coordinate resolution across functional and technical teams.
Translate leadership and program controls reporting requirements into scalable OPC and enterprise reporting solutions.
Define metrics, calculations, thresholds, and reporting logic for schedule, cost, risk, change, and portfolio performance; support dashboards and reports for project through portfolio decision-making.
Partner with analytics and data teams to ensure downstream reporting accurately reflects OPC source data and business rules.
Establish and maintain standards for OPC configuration, security, data structures, workflows, and reporting, and participate in governance of changes, enhancements, releases, and configuration updates.
Assess enhancement requests and recommend solutions based on business value, complexity, risk, and maintainability.
Lead small- to medium-scale innovation and process-improvement initiatives, investigate alternatives, address recurring issues at their root cause, and contribute to OPC roadmap development and prioritization.
Facilitate discovery sessions, requirements workshops, solution-design reviews, and technical discussions with cross-functional stakeholders.
Communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, provide recommendations supporting management decisions, and resolve competing requirements by evaluating alternatives, impacts, dependencies, and tradeoffs.
Lead or support OPC implementation and enhancement workstreams from requirements through production deployment.
Develop functional and technical specifications, configuration documentation, process flows, and acceptance criteria.
Support configuration, data migration, testing, user acceptance testing, deployment, and post-production stabilization.
Coordinate functional and technical activities across internal teams, vendors, and system integrators; identify implementation risks, dependencies, and issues and drive mitigation and resolution.
Ensure delivered solutions meet functional, technical, data-quality, security, and operational requirements.
Serve as a subject matter resource for OPC and related program controls technologies; mentor junior analysts, administrators, and team members.
Provide technical oversight, review solution designs and configurations, offer constructive feedback, and share best practices, lessons learned, reusable configurations, and implementation patterns.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Life insurance and AD&D.
Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
Paid time off, including flexible vacation for eligible salaried employees or accrued vacation for other eligible employees.
11 paid holidays.
Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed annually, with unused balances carrying over up to a 112-hour cap.
Paid parental leave.
Adoption assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Financial planning and group legal services.
Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance benefits.
Potential eligibility for bonus and equity.