Key Responsibilities & Skills:
- 15+ years of experience in Hyperion deployments, OCI migrations, and upgrades.
- Extensive experience in analysis, design, implementation, and support of Hyperion Suite 11.x applications.
- Lead architecture design for large-scale, multi-node, highly available Hyperion platform deployments.
- Architect distributed, load-balanced, enterprise-grade production environments.
- Define enterprise standards for platform topology, scalability, security, and operational resilience.
- Architect and drive cloud migration strategies (lift-and-shift and hybrid EPM deployments).
- Lead and execute migration, upgrade, and transformation initiatives across complex enterprise ecosystems.
- Lead and execute DRM migration strategies, including hierarchy governance and metadata lifecycle management.
- Provide technical leadership across implementation, upgrade, and transformation programs.
- Establish environment governance, release management frameworks, and production cutover strategies.
- Strong expertise in performance optimization, DR testing, and platform lifecycle management.
- Working knowledge of Oracle Database administration.
- OCI Foundation Certification and basic OCI administration exposure preferred.
- Experience in system monitoring, capacity planning, and service optimization.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, database, network, and security teams to align platform architecture with enterprise standards.
- Hands-on experience in architecture, installation, and configuration of Hyperion Suite 11.1.2.x and 11.2.x on Linux and Windows.
- Design and manage Disaster Recovery architecture including DR drills, failover validation, and business continuity planning.
- Lead and execute environment refreshes, replication, and multi-region instance cloning strategies.
- Define backup, recovery, and data protection standards for mission-critical deployments.
- Deep experience across Essbase, Planning, FDMEE, DRM, ODI, Financial Reporting, and Web Analysis.
- Provide architectural oversight for performance tuning, integration design, and system optimization.
- Troubleshoot complex installation, infrastructure, and integration challenges across the full Hyperion stack.
- Direct EPM lifecycle activities including patching strategy, testing governance, and release validation.
Leadership & Behavioural Expectations:
- Ability to lead customer discussions, architecture workshops, and technical governance forums.
- Strong stakeholder management skills across business, IT, and executive leadership.
- Experience managing global customers across multiple time zones.
- Ability to drive critical production incidents, escalations, and executive communications.
- Comfortable working in a 24x7 engagement model for enterprise programs where required.
- Strong ownership mindset with accountability for end-to-end platform stability.
- Ability to mentor junior team members and provide architectural guidance.
- Experience working in highly regulated or mission-critical environments.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and presentation skills.
- Open to travel based on program needs.
Career Level - IC4