Oracle Head of Platform

Oracle Head of Platform

Permanent

Grade 7 - £64,561 - £83,183 - Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

About The Role

As an Oracle Fusion Risk & Access Management Analyst, you’ll play a vital role in protecting and optimising one of Birmingham City Council’s most critical business systems. This specialist role focuses on Risk Management Cloud (RMC) within Oracle Fusion — ensuring user access, system security, and compliance are managed effectively across HR, Payroll, Finance, and Procurement functions.

You’ll act as a trusted partner to business process owners and Oracle users, leading on incident response, access management, and security audits. You’ll also contribute to system improvements, training, and compliance initiatives that keep the Council’s data safe, reliable, and fit for purpose in a complex digital environment.

This is an opportunity to make a real impact — combining your technical expertise and risk awareness to strengthen operational resilience and enhance the security of vital council systems.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead on risk assessments within Oracle Fusion, identifying vulnerabilities and implementing mitigation strategies.
• Manage and respond to security incidents related to Risk Management Cloud (RMC), including access breaches and compliance violations, ensuring timely investigation and resolution.
• Oversee user access controls, ensuring permissions, roles, and privileges are managed securely and in line with governance standards.
• Conduct regular audits of access rights and system activity to ensure compliance with policies, regulations, and best practice (e.g. SOX, GDPR).
• Develop, maintain, and communicate security policies and incident response procedures, promoting awareness across teams and stakeholders.
• Provide guidance and training to system users and administrators on access management, security compliance, and data protection.
• Collaborate with IT security, compliance, and business teams to align security processes with operational and legislative requirements.
• Contribute to system enhancements and process improvements, identifying opportunities to streamline access management and strengthen governance.
• Support Oracle Fusion updates, testing, and impact assessments, ensuring alignment with financial and operational requirements.
• Maintain up-to-date user documentation, SOPs, and training materials to ensure consistent, compliant, and user-friendly access processes.
• Participate in wider system improvement projects and contribute to the continuous enhancement of Oracle Fusion service delivery.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role, ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer, but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim.

For any informal enquires please contact: Resourcing@birmingham.gov.uk

Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting.  Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached. 

We are a disability confident employer and we encourage applicants with disabilities to apply. We also welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed. Non-UK applicants (excluding Ireland) may need to apply for a visa from the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) and may require a Certificate of Sponsorship from Birmingham City Council for a skilled worker visa (if the job is eligible).