User Profiles - MVP Advice Needed

Hi
I'm looking for some guidance around how to/best practice to complete full-cycle synchronization of user profile properties.
Oracle HR is the source of truth for people related data. We run a synchronization to Active Directory of the people data from Oracle every 3 hours.
SharePoint imports the user profile properties from the AD attributes using the User Profile Synchronization service (not AD Import), including some usage of the extensionAttributeN. User profiles properties are setup to use both OOTB and custom
properties.
It is now a requirement to allow SharePoint users to edit/manage a number of their profile properties through the profile edit feature in My Sites along with SharePoint only profile properties. The edited properties would be both OOTB SharePoint and some
custom properties The edited properties that originated in Oracle would need to be synchronized back to Oracle in some manner.
So my question is, what options do I have? We're trying to force configurable solutions where possible over custom coding, though it's highly unlikely this is configurable, though I honestly do not know.
All the back end processes outside of SharePoint for persisting data into Oracle are catered for via WCF, it's the how and what's the best practice at the SharePoint end got me stumped. A queue of some description - database preferably maybe.
How would you approach this requirement?
I'd appreciate any advice or pointers you can give me.
Kind regards,
Lee

Hi Pavel
I greatly appreciate your guidance and taking the time to respond.
I do have an understanding of what is proposed.
As all properties are imported from AD, I cannot update these to be used to export to Oracle any changes the user makes. I can add new properties specific for allowing the updates to be persisted to Oracle, these would not be displayed except in edit profile.
With this scenario, there is an obvious disconnect between the imported and exported property values and is really just a form for updating Oracle, blank for initial load and holding the updated values if previous used. I was hoping the properties for exporting
could be populated with the values of the corresponding imported properties when loading in the edit profile, otherwise null values or incorrect values could be persisted when not expected, though a null/empty value would be valid if a user wanted to clear
a specific property - remove a phone number for example.
Do you have any thoughts on how to handle this disconnect?
Kind regards,
Lee

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