Joining Arup

Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of advisors and experts working across 34 countries with over 19,000 employees. Headquartered in London, providing design engineering, architecture, planning, and advisory services across every aspect of the built environment. Founded to be both humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology, and rigour to shape a better world.

The Opportunity

The Finance Systems Transformation Programme is a major change initiative that supports Arup’s Global Finance Vision. The programme will transform our future finance capabilities by enabling significant operational change through the worldwide implementation of Oracle Fusion ERP and EPM across Arup.

Delivering a modern cloud-based finance foundation will allow data and processes to be unified to enhance decision-making, increase efficiency and improve user experience, strengthening our organisation for the future.

The Programme will be delivered by a dedicated, collaborative, cross-functional and multi-location team working closely with our Finance team, our wider business and the implementation partner to ensure a successful outcome.

The Data Architect will be responsible for defining and governing the end‑to‑end data architecture across the Oracle Fusion ERP and EPM landscape. This role ensures that data models, integrations, and information flows are designed for integrity, security, and scalability, enabling reliable Finance, Procurement, and Performance Management reporting and analytics. This role is a fixed term contract forecasted to last through June of 2028.

The successful candidate will partner with Functional Leads, Technical Leads, business data owners, and delivery partners to establish data standards, oversee migration and integration patterns, and ensure high‑quality, trusted data throughout the programme lifecycle.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share, and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas.

You will have the opportunity to do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Role Overview

Data Architecture & Design:

• Define the target data architecture for Oracle Fusion ERP and EPM, including conceptual, logical, and physical models.
• Establish canonical data definitions, master and reference data standards, and data domain ownership.
• Ensure alignment to enterprise architecture principles and programme objectives.

Data Integration & Flows:

• Design end‑to‑end data flows across ERP, EPM, data warehouse/lake, and downstream systems using approved integration patterns (e.g., OIC, APIs, FBDI, export/import pipelines).
• Own the interface inventory and data mapping specifications, ensuring traceability from source to consumption.
• Champion near‑real‑time vs batch patterns based on business need, performance, and cost.

Data Migration & Cutover:

• Lead the data migration strategy and approach across ERP and EPM, including data profiling, cleansing, enrichment, and reconciliation.
• Define migration staging, sequencing, and dress‑rehearsal plans; oversee execution quality and defect resolution.
• Establish cutover data readiness criteria and sign‑off checkpoints.

Data Quality & Governance:

• Define data quality rules, controls, and KPIs; implement monitoring and remediation processes across critical data objects (e.g., suppliers, customers, chart of accounts, projects).
• Stand up data governance processes, RACI, and forums; facilitate decisions on data standards and lineage.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, privacy, and security requirements, including retention and segregation needs.

Security, Controls & Privacy:

• Collaborate with Security and Technical Leads to define data access models, segregation of duties controls, and masking/anonymisation patterns for non‑prod use.
• Ensure sensitive data handling aligns with organisational and legal requirements.

Reporting & Analytics Enablement:

• Enable management reporting and analytics by defining semantic models and curated datasets that draw from ERP and EPM.
• Partner with reporting teams to ensure consistent metrics, hierarchies, and dimensional structures.

Documentation & Governance:

• Maintain architecture artefacts including data models, lineage diagrams, interface specifications, and data dictionaries.
• Contribute to design authority forums and change control processes, ensuring data impacts are assessed and approved.

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Work closely with Functional Leads to ensure process designs are underpinned by robust data models.
• Partner with Technical Leads, SI partners, and internal IT to drive cohesive delivery across environments.
• Provide guidance and coaching to data stewards and business data owners.

Is this role right for you?

• Proven experience as a Data Architect or Senior Data Lead on Oracle Fusion ERP and EPM programmes.
• Strong understanding of Finance data domains and their reporting needs.
• Hands‑on experience with data integration patterns and tooling (e.g., OIC, REST/SOAP APIs, FBDI, ODI/ETL).
• Demonstrated leadership in data migration at scale, including reconciliation and cutover.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks, data quality management, and metadata/lineage practices.
• Ability to translate complex data concepts for business stakeholders and influence decision‑making.
• Experience designing analytics and semantic layers for ERP/EPM reporting.
• Familiarity with OCI data services and modern data platforms (e.g., data lake/warehouse patterns).
• Exposure to security, privacy, and regulatory considerations in financial data.
• Pragmatic, detail‑oriented, and collaborative—comfortable setting standards and guiding delivery partners.
  

What we offer you

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.
To understand what to expect next, please visit https://www.arup.com/careers/recruitment-process/

Different people, shared values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.

Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at www.arup.com/careers/your-life-at-arup.

We are committed to making our recruitment process and workplaces accessible to all candidates. Please contact nick.newell@arup.com to let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application or interview process, and/or to perform the essential functions of the role. We will do everything we can to support you.

Our Application Process

To understand what to expect next, please visit https://www.arup.com/careers/recruitment-process/

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