Senior Program Manager

Ashburn Consulting•Falls Church, VA

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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).
Minimum 5 years in a Program Manager role managing multi-stream programs.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Management Information Systems (MIS), Human Resources, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

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

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.