Systems Manager, HR Systems (Oracle Fusion HCM)

About the role

The Systems Manager, HR Systems will lead operational delivery for the University's Human Capital Management ecosystem, focusing on Oracle Fusion HCM. This role requires a blend of technical leadership and people management, guiding analysts and developers in building scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise and custom HR solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural and technical leadership across Oracle Fusion HCM, including configuration strategy, extensions, integrations, data architecture, and development of custom HR solutions where platform capabilities require augmentation.
• Mentor and grow a cross-functional team of analysts and developers while serving as the senior technical escalation point.
• Establish design standards, integration patterns, and development frameworks that promote reuse, scalability, maintainability, and effective custom solution delivery.
• Guide solution decisions across the full delivery lifecycle (analysis, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and optimization).
• Partner with enterprise architecture and platform teams to align HR solutions with institutional cloud, integration, and security strategies.
• Lead technical roadmap planning, balancing modernization initiatives, technical debt reduction, and delivery of business capabilities.
• Ensure solutions meet expectations for performance, security, compliance, and operational supportability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive IT experience spanning enterprise application architecture, configuration, development, and delivery of custom business solutions.
• 5+ years delivering solutions within Oracle Fusion HCM (e.g., Payroll, Time & Labor, Core HR, or related modules).
• Demonstrated experience designing and building custom HR applications, extensions, or middleware services that complement SaaS HCM platforms.
• Proven experience leading technical teams and establishing architectural direction for cloud-based enterprise platforms.
• Experience supporting hybrid HCM landscapes and transformation initiatives.
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft HCM and experience supporting or migrating legacy PeopleSoft environments is strongly preferred.

Skills

• Deep understanding of Oracle Fusion HCM architecture, security model, extensibility framework, and integration patterns.
• Hands-on familiarity with Oracle Fusion development and integration capabilities (REST/SOAP APIs, HDL/HSDL, BI Publisher, OTBI, Fast Formulas, and PaaS extensions).
• Experience building custom HR solutions using modern development frameworks, low-code platforms, or PaaS services integrated with enterprise HCM ecosystems.
• Experience defining solution patterns for data integration, event-driven workflows, and cross-system orchestration.
• Strong grasp of cloud architecture principles, identity and access management, and secure integration design.
• Ability to perform architectural trade-off analysis and guide teams toward pragmatic, supportable solutions.
• Solid understanding of SDLC, DevOps practices, and release management in SaaS and custom development environments.
• Familiarity with PeopleSoft architecture, data structures, and integration approaches to support coexistence or migration strategies.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence technical direction across diverse teams and stakeholders.

Pay

The expected pay range for this position is $178,547 to $210,723 per annum.