Principal Oracle Procurement Lead

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At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Location: Austin, TX Job Title Oracle Procurement Lead Role Summary The Oracle Procurement Lead is a key Architect responsible for driving the strategy, solution architecture and execution of our global procurement technology ecosystem. Our architecture leverages Oracle Fusion Cloud as our procurement and financial system of record with Zip as the orchestration layer. The ideal candidate is a Procurement technologist and architect who understands the nuances of the entire ERP Source-to-Pay (S2P) lifecycle. You will bridge the gap between user-centric intake and rigorous financial controls, ensuring that complex business requirements from Legal, Finance, and Global Sourcing are translated into seamless, automated workflows that maintain data integrity across both Zip and Oracle Role Responsibilities: • Solution Architecture: Define and maintain the long-term technical architecture for the procurement ecosystem, ensuring system scalability, security, and seamless interoperability between Zip and Oracle Fusion. • End-to-End Process Architecture: Design and optimize the global S2P process, ensuring a frictionless hand-off between upstream sourcing/intake and downstream purchasing/payables (Oracle Fusion). • Platform Configuration: Act as the functional lead for Oracle Fusion Procurement. Build complex intake workflows and configure Requisitioning, Purchasing, and Supplier Portals in Oracle to match. • Integration Ecosystem Management: Own the functional health of the Oracle procurement systems integration. Monitor data flow for Requisitions, Purchase Orders, and Supplier Master Data, Compliance screening, ensuring that "In-Flight" changes in one system are accurately reflected in the other. • Strategic Business Partnership: Lead discovery sessions with Global Procurement, Legal, and Accounting. Translate high-level business policies into precise logic within the tech stack. • Data Governance & Compliance: Ensure that the "System of Record" (Oracle) remains audit-ready. Manage the mapping of Category Codes, Cost Centers, and Tax attributes between the Zip and the Oracle GL. • Release Management: Manage the quarterly update cycles for Oracle. Conduct impact assessments on new features to ensure no disruption to the integrated workflow. • AI Procurement Agent Strategy & Governance: Lead the adoption and functional governance of Oracle's embedded and custom AI agents (e.g., Procurement Policy Advisor), ensuring all AI-driven automation and outputs within the S2P process are compliant, auditable, and drive process efficiency. • Oracle Fusion Lifecycle Management: Oversee the full lifecycle management within Oracle Fusion, including requisitioning, purchase orders, receipts, and invoice matching to ensure accurate financial reporting and spend visibility. • Oracle Fusion Supplier & Trade Configuration: Configure and maintain Oracle Fusion supplier master data, trade management workflows, and complex approval hierarchies to support global procurement needs. Role Requirements Must-Have Skills • 10+ years of hands-on experience in Oracle Procurement (Self-Service Procurement, Sourcing, Purchasing, Supplier Model, Contracts). • 5+ years of experience in Oracle Fusion Procurement. • Deep understanding of the Source-to-Pay (S2P) lifecycle, including PR/PO lifecycle, Accounting, and Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM). • Proven experience managing API-based integrations between Intake-to-Procure tools and Tier-1 ERPs. You should understand how a requisition "Approval" translates into an Oracle "Approved Requisition." • Ability to map complex, cross-functional business processes and identify opportunities for automation or bottleneck removal. • Experience establishing technical standards and governing system changes in a live production environment. • Certifications in relevant Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement module. Nice-To-Have Skills • Experience in an organization transitioning to Oracle Cloud Ecosystem. • Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Global Trade Management system.. • Third-party supporting software experience like Ironclad, Navan, etc.. • Exposure to the Data Center Infrastructure industry. • Working knowledge of AI Agent Studio for Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. Equity This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare's equity plan. Benefits Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family. Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S. Health & Welfare Benefits • Medical/Rx Insurance • Dental Insurance • Vision Insurance • Flexible Spending Accounts • Commuter Spending Accounts • Fertility & Family Forming Benefits • On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program • Global Travel Medical Insurance Financial Benefits • Short and Long Term Disability Insurance • Life & Accident Insurance • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan • Employee Stock Participation Plan Time Off • Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave • Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave What Makes Cloudflare Special? We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. 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