Oracle Fusion Cloud Sr. Technical Integration Manager

On behalf of the MOD, we are looking for a Oracle Fusion Cloud Sr. Technical Integration Manager (Inside IR35) for a 6 Month contract-based Hybrid/ in LONDON/Bristol. SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is a central government department with a mission to protect our country and provide the ultimate guarantee of its security and independence, as well as helping to protect its values and interests abroad. The MOD is one of the biggest public procurement organisations in Europe and the single largest customer for UK industry. It currently manages approximately £20 billion of spend on capital investments in equipment and infrastructure every year. Over the next decade the MOD is committed to spending over £190 billion on equipment and support. The MOD’s customers include both the armed forces and national security agencies, and it has a diverse range of requirements, including military fighting vehicles, education services, nuclear submarines and facilities management. The MOD’s aim is to provide its armed forces with the best capabilities to enable them to protect the UK’s security and advance national interests, both now and in the long term. To do this the MOD has an annual budget of almost £53 billion and a workforce comprising 197,000 people. of which 54,000 are civilians working for the UK MOD. The work really matters; the MOD offers a range of engaging roles which have a direct impact on the quality of services they provide, in many locations across the UK. We support teams working in HR, Primary Health Care, Corporate Services, and many others.

As an Oracle Fusion Cloud Sr. Technical Integration Manager, your main responsibilities will be:

• Provide oversight on behalf of the portfolio programme director on PaaS extensions and Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) based integration components within CSM programme
• Ensure that integration strategy and plans are complete and meet necessary quality standards
• Ensure that functional and technical specifications for items covered in the integration catalogue are complete and as per standards
• Validate and if required define reusable patterns for Application Integrations, Orchestrations, Event-based APIs, and Batch transfers
• Ensure and support implementation of robust error-handling, logging, and recovery frameworks with visibility via OIC dashboards and OCI Logging Analytics.
• Ensure optimisation of throughput through streaming, parallel processing, and efficient payload management.
• Ensure and support collaboration of functional and technical data-migration teams to align integration sequencing with data-readiness and reconciliation steps
• Validate and guide preparation of technical specifications, mapping documents, and deployment artefacts following agreed governance and quality standards
• Optimise and monitor potential integration issues and ensure efficiency, performance, scalability, and reliability
• Ensure that integration architecture meets the relevant standards and designs are compliant with the best practices of OIC architecture
• Ensure that integration patterns, message formats, and data mappings meet functional and technical requirements
• Validate that B2B flows (if applicable), error handling, retry mechanisms, and OIC monitoring/logging best practices are implemented
• Validation of security components such as OCI Vault, Secrets, Certificates, and OAuth2 flows design and configuration against the best practices

Essential:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field
• Years of experience in integration development, with at least Strong demonstrated experience with OIC
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Application Integration certification is highly desirable
• Experience with Oracle Process Automation (OPA) will be beneficial
• Technical expertise in Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Oracle Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Oracle Service Bus (OSB)
• Proven hands-on expertise designing and building integrations using OIC adapters, REST/SOAP APIs, XML, XSD, XSLT, and JSON, and file-based orchestrations.
• Experience securing integrations via OCI Vault, certificates, and OAuth2 tokens
• Solid understanding of Fusion data models and experience interfacing with FBDI, HDL, and BICC artefacts
• Knowledge of Oracle ERP, HCM, and EPM Cloud integrations will be highly desirable
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Ability to work independently

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the MOD guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Covenant

The MOD guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.