Senior Manager - Project Portfolio Management (Oracle PPM Architect)

Who are we?

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, operating over 260 data centersacross the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.

Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams. We hirehardworking people who thrive on solvingchallengingproblems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providingan equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Job Summary

Partners with Business Groups to ensure delivery of applications aligned to the business and IT strategy, as well as the support of those applications. Works with Business Groups to define their global IT requirements and to analyze appropriate solutions. Manages projects from inception to completion with matrix, global teams.

Responsibilities

Business Requirements Analysis

Partners with business stakeholders to analyze, define and document business requirements, within and across functional areas

Drives best practices during requirements gathering and modeling

Has a strong focus on gathering core requirements, beyond stated requirements and correctly places these within a broader context

Understands business environment and helps to connect/align relevant business stakeholders

Process Modeling and Design

Partners with business stakeholders to analyze, define and document business processes within and across functional areas

Drives best practices during requirements gathering and modeling

Understands business environment and helps to connect/align relevant business stakeholders

Stakeholder Management

Manages stakeholder expectations and communications within and beyond functional track

Knows business environment well enough to identify and proactively include the correct stakeholders

Interacts regularly with senior management level stakeholders, and demonstrates value from realized projects

Solution Design

Responsible to design and document cross-functional and global solutions, drawing on functional expertise of functional and technical team members or vendors, as appropriate

Advises on solutions prepared by peers or supporting team, and champions good design practices

Documentation

Documents and reviews broader team documentation

Supports team in identifying and defining relevant documentation templates pertaining to solution delivery

Is a champion for knowledge transfer to enable/empower other team members

Functional Design

Develops functional designs for applications, integrations and conversions

Ability to work on multiple functional areas and integrations with third party products

Keeps up to date with industry trends and vendor capabilities to produce robust functional designs

Reviews functional designs and obtains sign-offs with the cross functional business and IT teams

Provides inputs into business processes based on design capabilitiesChampions sustainable, forward-looking functional designs

Testing & Test Design

Coordinates integration testing, validates test cases with stakeholders for user acceptance testing and training, and obtains sign-offs

Coordinates defects clarification, triage and coordinate resolution with engineering teams

Project Management

Manages multiple application releases and projects

Manages stakeholder expectations

Designs release scope and schedule in line with business goal, prioritization and IT capacity

System Configurations

Configures applications in line with business goals

Designs forward looking configurations by recognizing future needs aligned with the business roadmap

Develops configuration standards'

Day to Day Support (Production Support)

Supports and trains junior resources and oversees quality in triage and troubleshooting practices

Leads troubleshooting efforts on critical issues with cross functional teams through resolution

Identifies improvements to address repeat issues

Training and Change Management

Works with functional leadership teams to set expectations and conduct planning and execution of SME training activities

Defines, communicates, and implements support and engagement plans

Analyzes adoption rates and issues and assesses business case realization and proposes solutions to improve

Qualifications

10+ years of experience in Oracle Application Fusion Financials and Project Portfolio Management and Acquire to Retire modules in Oracle Cloud

Deep Understanding of PPM, Record to Report, Acquire to Retire, Order to Cash and Procure to Pay processes.

Extensive Experience in written and verbal communications with Business Stakeholders, Executive Leadership and broader IT teams

Bachelors in Information Systems, Business or related field

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