AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

We partner with Arup to support their contingent recruitment processes. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

On Behalf of Arup, we are looking for a Technical Lead for a 12 month contract based in London with remote working available (Hybrid).

Purpose of the role:

The Technical Lead will play a critical role in supporting the design, build, and delivery of a large-scale Oracle Fusion implementation. This role is responsible for providing technical leadership across Oracle Fusion ERP and EPM platforms, and its supporting technology ensuring robust architecture, high-quality integrations, secure data migration, and alignment with business and functional requirements as well as best practice for deployment.

What you'll do:

• Provide technical leadership for the Oracle Fusion ERP and EPM implementation, covering architecture, integrations, data migration, archiving, identity and access management, platform management, security, and environments.
• Identify and mitigate risks, manage dependencies and resolve issues across team.
• Establish technical workstream structures and oversee the end-to-end delivery of Oracle Finance Fusion across multiple geographies, ensuring programme timelines, scope, and budget are met.
• Build trusted relationships between digital technology teams, key stakeholders and the broader finance services and Transformation teams. Be a trusted advisor that can translate complex technical needs to simple business language and complex business needs to technical needs.
• Support testing activities, including system integration testing and performance testing, and provide technical support during go live and hypercare.
• Oversee data migration strategy and execution, including data extraction, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and cutover planning.
• Drive Arup's delivery of technical deliverables and RACI responsibilities.
• Ensure alignment between technical execution and business objectives.
• Establish technical governance structures. Chair the Programme's Finance Strategic Transformation Design Authority and contribute to Arup's Technical Design Authority when the programme requires it.
• Co-ordination of resources to produce Key Design Decisions and Solution Option Comparisons.
• Oversee the authoring, review and approval of technical documentation deliverables to ensure the programme produces high quality, complete technical documentation which align Oracle best practices and enterprise standards.
• Lead the development and delivery of integrations between Oracle Fusion ERP and EPM, and connected systems using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), REST/SOAP APIs, and other middleware.

The skills you'll need:

• Proven experience of successfully delivering global Oracle Fusion ERP and EPM implementations.
• Experience working as a technical leader with finance transformation and programme teams.
• Strong hands-on experience across Oracle Fusion modules (ERP and EPM) platforms, including technical architecture and integration design.
• Expertise in Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), REST/SOAP web services, and file-based integrations.
• Solid experience with data migration tools, approaches, and reconciliation within Oracle Fusion implementations.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle Fusion security, reporting (OTBI, BI Publisher), and technical extensions.
• Experience working in complex, multi-stream programme environments with multiple stakeholders and vendors. with an ability to challenge and drive delivery excellence.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage C-level executives and cross-functional teams and an ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, business-friendly language.

About the client

About the client

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. Guided by its values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Arup creates and contributes to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Arup's internal employee networks support their inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion - creating a space for everyone to express themselves and make a positive difference.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and speak to one of our Sourcing Specialists.

AMS are committed to providing all our candidates with the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any additional support or reasonable adjustments during the screening process and we will work with you and Arup to identify the best solution to meet your requirements.

AMS, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Company, may in the delivery of some of its services be deemed to operate as an Employment Agency or an Employment Business.