PeopleSoft Project Manager

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R8322

Full time

Onsite

As a People Soft Project Manager, you will lead the governance, planning, and delivery of People Soft PUM upgrades and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) migration initiatives, overseeing project execution, vendor management, stakeholder engagement, risk mitigation, and cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery within scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives.

We are looking for a People Soft Project Manager to 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 People Soft upgrade and cloud migration projects while ensuring business continuity and compliance with organizational standards.

This position will be contract and hybrid in New York, NY.

Only work authorizations without a need for sponsorship now or in the future will be considered.

• Lead governance and end-to-end delivery of People Soft PUM upgrade and OCI migration programs, driving execution through Agile or Hybrid methodologies while managing scope, risks, dependencies, issues, and change requests
• Establish project governance structures, reporting cadences, decision-making frameworks, and escalation procedures to ensure effective program oversight and stakeholder alignment
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, budgets, dependency tracking, and risk registers while monitoring project health against scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives
• Coordinate steering committee meetings, executive status reviews, and leadership reporting to ensure timely milestone delivery, informed decision-making, and successful program outcomes
• Serve as the primary point of contact for implementation partners while overseeing vendor performance, deliverables, milestones, resource commitments, and contractual obligations
• Review and challenge project plans, estimates, technical approaches, and delivery schedules to ensure alignment with project objectives and organizational requirements
• Drive vendor accountability for project execution, issue resolution, risk mitigation, and adherence to established quality and delivery standards
• Validate vendor deliverables and acceptance criteria while proactively escalating delivery risks, delays, and quality concerns as needed
• Oversee People Soft PUM and People Tools upgrade initiatives across HCM, FSCM, ELM, Pensions, and other People Soft applications while coordinating fit-gap analyses, impact assessments, and customization retrofit strategies
• Partner with business stakeholders to support requirements validation, testing, training, deployment activities, and overall change readiness throughout the upgrade lifecycle
• Ensure testing plans, defect management processes, production readiness activities, and quality standards are effectively executed and managed by Oracle and project teams
• Track upgrade progress, risks, dependencies, and go-live readiness to support successful deployment and business continuity
• Oversee the migration of People Soft environments from on-premises infrastructure to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), including migration strategy development, cutover planning, disaster recovery readiness, and infrastructure preparedness
• Coordinate internal infrastructure, security, networking, database, and application teams to ensure alignment, execution readiness, and successful delivery of migration objectives
• Monitor migration risks and implement mitigation strategies while managing OCI architecture reviews, security compliance requirements, disaster recovery planning, and performance optimization
• Ensure successful migration execution, operational readiness, post-production stabilization, and support transition planning through close collaboration with cloud engineering and technical teams
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, IT leadership, Oracle, system integrators, and third-party vendors, facilitating executive steering committee meetings and project governance reviews
• Manage vendor deliverables, contractual obligations, and service-level agreements, as well as communicate project risks, mitigation…