Project Manager (PeopleSoft PUM Upgrades & OCI Migration)

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.