Oracle Cloud Time & Absence Lead

Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is built on trusted client relationships, global collaboration, and delivering transformative business outcomes. As part of our team, you’ll partner with leading organizations across industries to solve complex challenges and unlock value through cloud, AI, and digital transformation initiatives. Leveraging IBM’s deep industry expertise, innovative technologies, and strategic partnerships, you’ll help clients modernize operations, accelerate growth, and achieve sustainable success.

At IBM Consulting, curiosity, innovation, and continuous learning are at the heart of everything we do. We empower our people to challenge conventional thinking, embrace new ideas, and deliver impactful solutions that drive measurable results. Our inclusive and growth-focused culture supports your professional development, values diverse perspectives, and provides opportunities to build a rewarding career while making a meaningful impact for clients around the world.

Your role and responsibilities
As Oracle Cloud Time & Absence Lead, you will design, implementation, and optimize Oracle Cloud HCM Time and Absence Management solutions. Working closely with clients and project stakeholders, you will facilitate requirements gathering workshops, analyze business processes, identify solution gaps, and recommend leading practices that drive operational efficiency while reducing long-term maintenance and support efforts. This role requires strong functional expertise in Oracle Cloud Time and Labor and Absence Management, excellent client-facing communication skills, and proven experience delivering successful Oracle HCM Cloud implementations.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

Lead Requirements & Design Workshops:
Facilitate business process discovery sessions, gather and validate requirements, identify gaps, and recommend scalable Oracle Cloud solutions aligned with industry best practices.

Solution Design & Configuration:
Design, configure, prototype, test, and deploy Oracle Cloud Time and Absence solutions to meet client business requirements and compliance needs.

Provide Functional Leadership:
Serve as the subject matter expert for Time and Absence Management, guiding clients and project teams through solution design decisions, configuration options, and process improvements.

Drive Testing & Deployment:
Support system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), defect resolution, data validation, and deployment activities to ensure successful project delivery.

Client Advisory & Best Practices:
Educate clients on Oracle Cloud HCM capabilities, leading practices, and emerging features while identifying opportunities to enhance business value and adoption.

Stakeholder Communication:
Provide regular project status updates, risks, issues, and mitigation plans to engagement managers and client stakeholders.

Knowledge Sharing & Continuous Learning:
Maintain expertise in Oracle Cloud HCM Time and Absence functionality through ongoing training, certification, and collaboration with delivery teams to promote knowledge sharing and capability development.

Mentorship & Team Support:
Guide junior consultants and contribute to solution reviews, quality assurance activities, and delivery excellence initiatives.

Required technical and professional expertise

* Oracle Cloud Time & Absence Expertise:
Proven experience implementing and supporting Oracle Cloud Time and Labor and Absence Management solutions, including requirements analysis, configuration, prototyping, testing, and deployment in complex business environments.

* Business Process Transformation:
Strong understanding of workforce management processes with the ability to assess current-state operations, identify improvement opportunities, and design scalable solutions that enhance efficiency, compliance, and user experience while minimizing ongoing maintenance.

* Oracle Cloud Solution Design:
Expertise in Oracle Cloud HCM configuration, functional design, and application best practices, with the ability to translate business requirements into effective and sustainable technology solutions.

* Consulting & Stakeholder Management:
Demonstrated consulting experience leading workshops, facilitating requirements-gathering sessions, conducting gap analyses, and presenting solution recommendations to business and technical stakeholders.

* Testing & Implementation Delivery:
Experience supporting end-to-end project life cycles, including solution design, system…