Senior Program Manager

About the role

We are seeking a visionary, highly technical Senior Program Manager who also is a business domain expert in HRIT to lead our enterprise-wide migration, implementation, and long-term support of Oracle Fusion HCM Cloud applications. In this high-impact role, you will bridge the gap between executive strategy and hands-on execution. You will own the end-to-end strategic roadmap, governance, and deployment of moving legacy HR systems to a unified Oracle Cloud HCM platform while directly leading the technical design, configuration, and day-to-day resolution of critical customer service requests.

Responsibilities

• Define the vision: Shape the enterprise migration strategy, delivery methodology, Redwood UI rollout plans, and deployment roadmaps.
• Direct governance: Establish program steering committees, corporate risk management frameworks, and KPIs to track migration and platform health.
• Manage stakeholders: Act as the primary liaison between HR executive leadership, IT executives, and external implementation partners to map business processes.
• Control budgets: Own fiscal responsibility for the program budget, ensuring strict cost controls and resource optimization.
• Mitigate deployment risks: Proactively identify, track, and manage critical program risks, including business continuity disruption, data loss, and go-live deployment friction.
• Design contingency plans: Formulate robust rollback strategies, disaster recovery plans, and operational workarounds to protect core HR operations during cutover phases.
• Translate requirements: Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand functional requirements and translate them into technical design documents.
• Architect the cutover: Oversee complex data migration strategies, data cleansing protocols, and historical data archiving.
• Drive issue resolution: Diagnose, replicate, and resolve complex functional and technical issues for critical service requests to achieve complete customer satisfaction.
• Manage integrations: Guide technical teams on complex integrations and configurations between Oracle Cloud HCM and third-party systems using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and Fast Formulas.
• Ensure compliance: Guarantee that the migrated platform adheres to data privacy laws, data security frameworks, and rigorous unit testing parameters.

Qualifications

• Total Experience: 12+ years of progressive techno-functional IT/HRIS program management experience with at least 6 years of direct experience with Oracle HCM Cloud products/solutions, including a proven track record leading at least two full-lifecycle, large-scale migrations (10,000+ employees).
• Leadership Depth: Minimum 5 years in a Program Manager role managing multi-stream programs.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Management Information Systems (MIS), Human Resources, or a related field.

Certifications

• Oracle Cloud HCM Certified Implementation Specialist (Highly Preferred)
• PMP (Project Management Professional) (Preferred)
• Prosci Certified Change Management Professional (To mitigate user adoption risks during software replacement) (Preferred)
• HRIP (Human Resources Information Professional) from IHRIM (nice to have)