Job Title: Senior ERP Project Manager – PeopleSoft & Oracle Cloud (OCI)
Location: 2 Broadway Manhattan, NYC - Hybrid
Experience: 15+ years
Job Summary
- We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager with over 15 years of IT and ERP project management experience, including extensive expertise in People
- Soft applications, People
- Soft Update Manager (PUM) upgrades, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) migrations.
- The ideal candidate will lead large-scale People
- Soft transformation initiatives, manage cross-functional teams, engage with executive stakeholders, and ensure successful delivery of modernization programs involving People
- Soft applications, databases, middleware, and cloud infrastructure.
The Project Manager will be responsible for planning, governance, risk management, resource coordination, vendor management, and end-to-end execution of PeopleSoft upgrade and cloud migration projects while ensuring business continuity and compliance with organizational standards.
Key Responsibilities
Program & Project Governance
- Lead overall governance of PeopleSoft PUM upgrade and OCI migration programs on behalf of the client organization.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of PeopleSoft upgrade and cloud transformation programs.
- Manage project scope, risks, dependencies, issues, and change requests.
- Drive project execution using Agile or Hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Ensure timely delivery of milestones while maintaining quality and budget objectives.
- Establish project governance structure, reporting cadence, decision-making processes, and escalation procedures.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, budgets, dependencies, and risk registers.
- Monitor project health and ensure adherence to approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.
- Coordinate steering committee meetings and executive status reviews.
- Provide regular project status reporting to executive leadership and steering committees.
Vendor Oversight & Management
- Serve as the primary point of contact for implementation partners.
- Oversee vendor performance, deliverables, milestones, resource commitments, and contractual obligations.
- Review and challenge project plans, estimates, technical approaches, and delivery schedules proposed by Oracle Consulting.
- Ensure vendor accountability for project execution, issue resolution, and risk mitigation.
- Validate completion and acceptance of vendor deliverables.
- Escalate delivery risks, delays, and quality concerns as necessary.
PeopleSoft PUM Upgrade Management
- Oversee PeopleSoft PUM and PeopleTools upgrade initiatives across HCM, FSCM, ELM, Pensions and other PeopleSoft applications.
- Coordinate fit-gap analysis, impact assessments, retrofit strategies, and testing cycles.
- Coordinate business stakeholder participation in requirements validation, testing, training, and deployment activities.
- Monitor customization retrofit strategies and impact assessments.
- Ensure testing plans, defect management processes, and production readiness activities are adequately executed by Oracle.
- Track upgrade progress and readiness for go-live.
OCI Migration Leadership
- Oversee migration of PeopleSoft environments from on-premises infrastructure to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Review migration strategy, cutover plans, disaster recovery planning, security architecture, and infrastructure readiness.
- Coordinate internal infrastructure, security, networking, database, and application teams.
- Ensure operational readiness and support transition planning.
- Monitor migration risks and ensure appropriate mitigation strategies are implemented.
- Manage OCI architecture reviews, security compliance, disaster recovery planning, and performance optimization.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, database, network, security, and cloud engineering teams.
- Ensure successful cutover planning, migration execution, and post-production stabilization.
Stakeholder & Vendor Management
- Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, IT leadership, Oracle, system integrators, and third-party vendors.
- Facilitate executive steering committee meetings and project governance reviews.
- Manage vendor deliverables, contractual obligations, and service-level agreements.
- Communicate project risks, mitigation plans, and strategic recommendations to senior management.
Risk, Financial & Contract Management
- Manage project budgets, forecasts, invoices, and vendor expenditures.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and dependencies.
- Monitor compliance with contractual obligations, service-level agreements, and project governance requirements.
- Ensure change requests are evaluated and approved through established governance processes.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- 15+ years of project management experience in enterprise ERP environments.
- 10+ years of PeopleSoft project delivery experience.
- Proven experience managing multiple PeopleSoft PUM upgrade projects.
- Proven experience leading PeopleSoft migrations to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Strong knowledge of PeopleSoft Architecture, PeopleTools, PUM, Lifecycle Management, and Change Assistant.
- Experience managing large-scale infrastructure modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of Oracle Database, WebLogic, Integration Broker, and PeopleSoft environments.
- Demonstrated success managing projects with budgets exceeding $5M and multiple stakeholder groups.
- Experience working with executive leadership and steering committees.
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP Certification.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Certifications.
- Agile/Scrum Certification.
- Experience with HCM, FSCM, or ELM implementations/upgrades.
- Experience with cloud security, disaster recovery, and high-availability architectures.
- Experience with public sector, higher education, healthcare, or large enterprise environments.
- Experience managing Oracle Consulting or other major system integrators.
- Knowledge of procurement, contract management, and vendor governance.
Required Skills
Functional & Technical
- PeopleSoft PUM Upgrades
- PeopleTools Upgrades
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
- Oracle Database Administration
- WebLogic Administration
- PeopleSoft Architecture
- Cloud Migration Strategy
- ERP Modernization
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Performance Optimization
Project Management
- Program Management
- Portfolio Management
- Budget & Financial Management
- Risk Management
- Resource Planning
- Executive Communication
- Vendor Management
- Governance & Compliance
- Agile/Scrum Methodologies
- PMP Certification.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Certifications.
- Agile/Scrum Certification.
- Experience with HCM, FSCM, or ELM implementations/upgrades.
- Experience with cloud security, disaster recovery, and high-availability architectures.
- Experience with public sector, higher education, healthcare, or large enterprise environments.
- Experience managing Oracle Consulting or other major system integrators.
- Knowledge of procurement, contract management, and vendor governance.
