HR and Payroll Systems Modernization Portfolio Project Manager

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Posted Todayjob requisition :
35295
** Job Family:
** Technology Consulting
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* Travel Required:

** Up to 10%
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* Clearance Required:

** Ability to Obtain Public Trust
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* What You Will Do:

*** Manage individual projects under the Strategic Project Management Office, including HR and Payroll modernization initiatives, data migration efforts, system integrations, and enterprise modernization projects.
* Draft and maintain integrated project plans, executive strategic roadmaps , risk management strategies, and cross-functional timelines, resource plans, and critical paths
* Provide regular program updates, risks, concerns, and executive-level insights to senior leadership
* Coordinate with application leads, functional owners, integrators, and technical teams to ensure dependencies, system impacts, and timelines are fully understood and managed.
* Facilitate recurring program meetings, workshops, and working sessions to drive alignment, decision-making, and issue resolution.
* Publish agendas, meeting minutes, action items, risks, and decisions for all PMO-led meetings.
* Maintain a comprehensive RAID log and a formal Risk Management Plan encompassing resource risks, technical risks, data migration risks, workaround strategies, and design impacts.
* Track more than 100+ system integrations (Payroll inbound/outbound, HR application changes, SAP, UAP, EEB, PIM, S/4

HANA) across multiple modernization efforts.
* Manage stakeholder expectations and maintain an up-to-date stakeholder register across all active projects.
* Prepare communications, briefings, status reports, and executive‑ready presentation material.
* Support coordination across parallel modernization initiatives such as Retirement Modernization, SAP-to-Cloud Migration, SSoT data model changes, HR BI modernization, performance modernization, JBM decouple, ATS modernization, and related HR/Payroll transformation efforts.
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* What You Will Need:

*** Minimum of six (6)+ years of relevant experience, examples include: program or project management supporting enterprise‑scale, multi‑year IT modernization or business transformation initiatives for payroll or HR system portfolios.
* A Bachelor’s degree is required.
* US Citizenship is required due to client project requirements.
* A PMP
- Project Management Professional certification is required.
* Proven ability to manage large programs with multiple work streams, high interdependencies, and executive visibility.
* Strong command of industry-standard PM methodologies (PMP, Agile, hybrid approaches) and enterprise project management tools.
* Demonstrated success in:  + Building and maintaining complex project schedules  + Managing cross-functional teams  + Leading executive-level briefings  + Facilitating working sessions and driving decision-making
* Excellent organizational, documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
* Ability to anticipate issues, conduct risk analysis, and build mitigation plans across technical, functional, and schedule dimensions.
* Experience in IT PMO for a large payroll technology implementation or a large human capital management technology implementation.
* Experience coordinating with multiple technical and business teams simultaneously (HR, Payroll, Financial Systems, Data Engineering, Integration Platforms, Cloud Operations).
* Ability to work with highly complex legacy-to-cloud transition programs, particularly those involving parallel operations and large-scale data migration.
** What Would Be Nice To Have:
*** Agile Certification (such as PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Master, or equivalent) is preferred.
* Hands-on familiarity with Service Now HR workflows or HR process modernization initiatives.
* Prior involvement in implementing Single Source of Truth (SSoT) data architectures.
* Change management, communications strategy, or organizational readiness expertise.
* Federal consulting experience and/or managing PMO environments with technical SMEs and analyst support teams.
* Technology certifications relative to IT Modernization initiatives or associate disciplines such as (but not limited to) AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals, COMPTIA Security+, CompTIA Cloud Essentials, Fin Ops Practitioner, etc
* Experience in:  + Direct experience with SaaS Payroll solutions (Ceridian, Workday, Oracle, SAP Success Factors, or similar)  + Experience delivering analytics of BI modernization efforts (Databricks, modern reporting platforms, SAP Business Warehouse, etc)  + Experience implementing SAP for Human Capital Management to include migrating from SAP-HCM to SAP S/4 HANAThe annual salary range for this position is $-$. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and…