Sr. Staff Solutions Architect - Finance (R6254)

Shield AI•San Diego, CA

1d•$148,320 - $266,976

About The Position

Shield AI is seeking a senior Solutions Architect – Finance to serve as the functional and technical authority for Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials, with deep expertise in Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and General Ledger, and working fluency across enterprise planning and budgeting. This hands-on, business-facing role owns the design, configuration, and continuous improvement of Oracle Fusion Financials capabilities, while ensuring finance close, reporting, and planning cycles connect across Oracle EPM and Anaplan. The Solutions Architect serves as the primary systems owner and trusted advisor for Finance business partners across Controllership, Accounting, FP&A, and Treasury. The role translates business needs into scalable solutions and directly configures and implements medium-complexity projects. For large or complex initiatives, the architect leads solution design, partners with the implementation partner, and remains accountable for solution quality, business fit, and knowledge transfer. The position owns the functional roadmap, configuration governance, and business alignment for Oracle EPM and Anaplan, and helps ensure that Oracle Fusion Financials, EPM, and Anaplan operate as a coherent, integrated planning and reporting ecosystem. The role also identifies and helps implement AI-driven automation across finance operations, with appropriate controls, auditability, and human oversight.

Requirements

12 or more years of progressive experience in enterprise ERP/EPM systems, with significant depth in General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable.
Hands-on experience configuring Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials and comfort working directly in the application.
Experience across multiple full-lifecycle ERP implementations, including Oracle Fusion.
Working knowledge of enterprise planning and budgeting and how these processes interact with GL, AP, and AR for forecasting and management reporting.
Demonstrated experience as a functional or solution architect, independently designing solutions rather than only executing configuration tasks.
Experience partnering with or managing systems integrators or implementation partners on complex delivery efforts.
Strong business partnering and stakeholder management skills, including serving as the primary escalation point for Finance process questions.
Working understanding of integration concepts and experience partnering on ERP-to-EPM or planning-system integrations.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience producing functional design documents, process documentation, and executive-level updates.

Nice To Haves

Prior consulting background with a Big Four firm, Oracle partner, or boutique Oracle Fusion implementation firm.
Direct experience owning or integrating with Oracle EPM (Planning, Consolidation, Account Reconciliation) and Anaplan platforms.
Experience in aerospace, defense, or other regulated or complex manufacturing environments.
Familiarity with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) or similar middleware and integration platforms.
Oracle Fusion Financials, Oracle EPM, or Anaplan certifications.
Experience operating in environments with export control, ITAR/CUI, or other regulated data-handling requirements.
Hands-on experience with generative AI or agentic AI platforms such as Oracle AI Agent Studio, OCI Generative AI, Microsoft Copilot Studio, or UiPath/Automation Anywhere agentic features, or similar.
Fluency in prompt engineering and AI workflow design, or ability to build that fluency.

Responsibilities

Design and deliver technical solutions, detailed solution designs, integration points, and appropriate tools and frameworks; collaborate with developers and engineers, conduct technical reviews, and resolve design challenges.
Document architectures, provide technical guidance during development, and ensure solutions meet performance, security, and interoperability requirements.
Serve as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor to Finance partners on process design and system capabilities.
Represent Finance stakeholders in ERP, EPM, and planning discussions, ensuring operational needs, control requirements, and priorities inform solution design.
Evaluate proposed Finance process changes for impact, feasibility, and fit with the Oracle Fusion Financials data model, chart of accounts, and integration landscape.
Translate business requirements into scalable solution designs, balancing standard Oracle functionality with configuration, extension, and integration needs.
Maintain working command of record-to-report, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and enterprise planning and budgeting flows.
Directly configure Oracle Fusion Financials, including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, and Fixed Assets, for medium-sized projects, enhancements, period-close changes, and break/fix work.
Build, test, and deploy configuration changes involving chart of accounts, allocations, subledger accounting rules, approval workflows, tax setup, and related financial data structures.
Configure and support Oracle EPM planning, consolidation, and close modules, and Anaplan models used for budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting.
Author functional design documents, configuration workbooks, test scripts, and process and procedure documentation.
For large or highly complex initiatives, define solution architecture and requirements and partner with the implementation partner while remaining accountable for solution quality, business fit, and knowledge transfer.
Participate in and help lead Finance workshops, fit-gap sessions, and design reviews with stakeholders and implementation partner teams.
Own the functional roadmap, configuration governance, and business alignment for Oracle EPM and Anaplan.
Keep Oracle Fusion Financials, EPM, and Anaplan architecturally aligned and maintain the target integration and data-flow model across GL, subledgers, EPM, and Anaplan.
Design and help implement integrations between Oracle Fusion Financials and adjacent systems, including EPM, Anaplan, banking and payment platforms, expense systems, and procurement systems.
Define integration requirements, data mappings, and error-handling and reconciliation approaches with technical and integration teams.
Evaluate API, middleware, and file-based integration patterns based on data volume, latency, close-calendar timing, and criticality.
Support integration testing, cutover, and hypercare, including during month-end and quarter-end close cycles.
Maintain configuration standards, documentation, and change control for AP, AR, GL, and planning in alignment with internal controls and audit requirements.
Identify opportunities to simplify processes, automate work, and improve data quality across close, AP/AR, and planning cycles.
Monitor Oracle Fusion, EPM, and Anaplan releases relevant to Financials and planning, and assess and recommend adoption of new features.
Mentor junior functional and technical resources and contribute to the internal ERP center of excellence.
Identify high-value opportunities for Agentic AI automation in Finance, including invoice matching, AR collections, journal entries, account reconciliation, variance analysis, and close-task orchestration.
Design and configure AI agent workflows using Oracle embedded AI/ML and agentic capabilities and Anaplan AI/PlanIQ capabilities as they become available.
Partner with IT and data teams to define prompts, guardrails, data inputs, and approval and exception paths for AI agents, with segregation-of-duties and human-in-the-loop controls.
Evaluate and pilot third-party or custom Agentic AI tools and assess their fit with the target architecture.
Use AI-assisted tools for requirements analysis, test script generation, configuration documentation, and data mapping.
Champion responsible AI adoption, including data quality, auditability, and change management in regulated, ITAR/CUI-sensitive, and SOX-controlled environments.