Associate Architect EPM & Analytics

Role Overview

Hypertherm's Associate Architect is a solution and enterprise architecture role focused on Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), financial analytics, and reporting. This role operates at the intersection of Finance, Data & Analytics, and Enterprise Architecture to design, govern, and evolve scalable, well-governed solutions that enable enterprise-wide financial planning, forecasting, consolidation, reporting, and performance insights.

As the Associate Architect, you will:

• Serve as the solution architect and subject matter expert for Oracle EPM and Power BI, supporting financial planning, consolidation, reporting, and analytics use cases.
• Partner closely with Finance FP&A, Financial Systems, Data, and IT teams to translate business strategy and reporting needs into scalable EPM and analytics architectures.
• Contribute to future-state architecture and roadmap for EPM and financial analytics, aligned with enterprise data and technology strategy.
• Design and govern:
  • Oracle EPM solution architectures.
  • Power BI semantic models, reporting architectures, and consumption patterns.
  • Financial and operational data models.
  • Integration patterns with ERP, data warehouses, and analytics platforms.
• Guide the evaluation, configuration, and enhancement of Oracle EPM modules to streamline planning, reporting, and performance analysis.
• Define and enforce governance for dimensions, hierarchies, metadata, and master data within Oracle EPM and Power BI.
• Architect and govern integrations between Oracle EPM and ERP systems, data warehouses, data lakes, and enterprise analytics platforms.
• Enable standardized, reusable Power BI reporting frameworks that extend Oracle EPM insights across the enterprise.
• Provide architectural oversight to ensure solutions meet business requirements and comply with enterprise architecture, data governance, and security standards.
• Review and govern enhancements, datasets, reports, and third-party tools within the Oracle EPM and Power BI ecosystem.
• Develop architectural documentation, standards, and design artifacts for EPM and analytics solutions.
• Support user adoption, training, and change-management in partnership with Finance.
• Promote continuous improvement, portfolio rationalization, and best practices across EPM and financial analytics platforms.

Who you are and the experience you will bring:

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in IT solution delivery, finance systems, data/analytics, or architecture-related roles.
• Hands-on experience with Oracle EPM (planning, consolidation, reporting, metadata, security, and/or integrations).
• Experience designing or enabling Power BI solutions, including data models, reports, and analytics integration patterns.
• Working knowledge of financial processes such as planning, forecasting, and consolidation and how they translate into systems and data flows.
• Ability to translate business requirements into solution, data, and analytics architecture artifacts.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Finance, Data, and IT stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of enterprise applications, cloud-based data platforms, and analytics architectures.
• Familiarity with Agile, DevOps, and system development lifecycle practices.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and business stakeholders.
• Analytical, systems-thinking mindset with a collaborative and outcomes-driven approach.

Preferred experience that differentiates you:

• Experience with Oracle Narrative Reporting.
• Experience defining or aligning solutions to enterprise canonical data models and analytics standards.
• Experience with portfolio rationalization, technical debt reduction, or architecture governance.
• Exposure to enterprise data platforms, data lakes, or advanced analytics environments.

Location and Logistics

• Location: If you live in NH, the position is onsite in Hanover, NH. Outside of NH, it can be remote.
• Travel: Minimal.

Additional benefits in joining Hypertherm Associates:

• Collaborative, 100% employee-owned culture.
• Profit-Sharing and Employee Stock Ownership (ESOP).
• Five days/year paid Community Service Time.
• Strong commitment to Environmental Stewardship.
• Stable, growing organization with a no-layoff philosophy.