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The Developer - Oracle Cloud ERP - Human Capital Management role is a senior technical leadership position within our Shared Services department. You will own the end-to-end Oracle Cloud HCM solutions, translating enterprise workforce priorities into robust and integrated technology. Your expertise will be pivotal in shaping secure, scalable, and employee-centric solutions across Core HR, Talent Management, Payroll, Benefits, and Workforce Management.

Role purpose:

To provide senior technical leadership and end-to-end ownership of Oracle Cloud HCM solutions across the enterprise ERP landscape. The role translates enterprise workforce priorities into secure, scalable and integrated technology solutions across Core HR, Talent Management, Payroll, Benefits and Workforce Management.

The role is accountable for solution architecture, complex development and integration, technical governance, service reliability, data integrity, release quality and continuous improvement. It acts as a trusted technical adviser to HR, Technology, Finance, Risk, Internal Audit and implementation partners, ensuring Oracle Cloud HCM capabilities deliver measurable business value, strong controls, regulatory compliance and a simple employee experience.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

• Lead HCM technical architecture and solution design in line with Oracle Cloud best practices.

• Manage technical releases, deployments, testing, and production validation.

• Mentor developers and ensure coding standards, quality, and reusable solutions.

• Design, develop, customize, and implement Oracle Cloud ERP HCM solutions aligned with business requirements.

• Translate business needs into scalable technical solutions in collaboration with HR business analysts, functional consultants, and stakeholders.

• Develop, test, and deploy HCM integrations, interfaces, reports, extracts, workflows, and extensions

• Provide application support, troubleshooting, debugging, and timely resolution of technical issues.

• Configure and maintain HCM security roles, profiles, and access controls.

• Prepare and maintain technical specifications, solution designs, test plans, and deployment documentation.

• Support data migrations, system upgrades, patches, enhancements, and release activities.

• Provide technical guidance, end-user support, and knowledge transfer to ensure effective system adoption.

• Contribute to process improvements, change initiatives, and optimization of HR technology solutions.

• Evaluate emerging Oracle Cloud HCM capabilities and recommend innovative solutions to enhance HR operations and employee experience.

• Provide technical leadership across programs, projects and releases, including planning, estimation, risk management, testing, deployment, cutover, rollback and hyper care

• Partner with process owners to simplify HR processes and improve employee experience through workflow, self-service, automation and digital capabilities.

• Lead technical engagement with system integrators, managed service providers and Oracle specialists, ensuring quality, delivery and knowledge transfer.

• Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

• Strategic and commercial thinking, with the ability to connect HCM technology decisions to workforce priorities, service outcomes, risk, total cost of ownership and ROI.

• Strong technical leadership, architecture and engineering judgment in complex and ambiguous environments.

• Strong stakeholder influence and the ability to communicate complex technical matters in clear business language.

• Delivery leadership across complex, cross-functional programs and projects.

• Strong risk, security, privacy, data integrity and control mindset.

• Structured problem-solving, root-cause analysis and evidence-based decision-making.

• Innovation and continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to identify automation and platform optimization opportunities.

• Change leadership and ability to support adoption of new processes and technologies.

• Coaching, mentoring and knowledge-transfer capability.

• Strong understanding of enterprise HCM technology, integration, data, security, release and service-management practices.

• Business Competencies:

• Creativity and Innovation :

• Identifies opportunities to simplify processes, automate activities, reduce technical debt and leverage emerging Oracle capabilities to deliver sustainable business value..

• Business Know how

• Understands HR, payroll, workforce and enterprise processes and translates business priorities into practical technology solutions.

• Working with Change

• Adapts quickly to changing business priorities and technology advancements.

• Supports stakeholders through system changes and digital transformation initiatives.

• Promotes adoption of new technologies and business processes.

• Demonstrates resilience and flexibility in dynamic environments.

• Project and Program Management

• Provides disciplined technical leadership across planning, design, development, testing, deployment, risk management, cutover and benefits realization.

  Functional Competencies:

• Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM architecture and solution design.

• Oracle Core HR, Talent, Payroll, Benefits and Workforce Management.

• Oracle Integration Cloud and enterprise integration architecture.

• REST/SOAP APIs, HCM Extracts, HDL/HSDL, BI Publisher and OTBI.

• Fast Formula, SQL and PL/SQL.

• Oracle security, role-based access, data roles and segregation of duties.

• Data migration, data quality, reconciliation and master-data management.

• Cloud environment management, release management and quarterly Oracle updates.

• Incident, problem and service management.

• Agile, DevOps, source control and automated testing.

• Enterprise architecture, technical governance and solution documentation.

• Business process optimization, workflow, automation and employee experience

  Key performance indicator:

• Strategic delivery: Delivery of approved roadmap milestones within agreed scope, quality and governance requirements.

• Service reliability: Availability of critical HCM services and successful completion of scheduled interfaces and batch processes.

• Incident and problem management: Priority-incident resolution performance, reduction in recurring incidents and aged problems.

• Release quality: Production change success rate, post-release defects and completion of update impact assessments and regression testing.

• Integration and data quality: Interface success rate, reconciliation accuracy, data-quality exceptions and timely remediation.

• Security and compliance: Timely access reviews, closure of audit/security findings and compliance with segregation-of-duties requirements.

• Customer experience: Stakeholder and user satisfaction, adoption, service-request quality and usability feedback.

• Continuous improvement: Value delivered through automation, process simplification, platform optimization and technical-debt reduction.

• Documentation and resilience: Currency and completeness of architecture, designs, runbooks, interface catalogue, support handover and knowledge coverage.

Partner performance: Quality, timeliness and knowledge transfer delivered by vendors and implementation partners.

Financial Responsibility:

• Provide accurate technical estimates, solution options and investment assessments to support budget planning and investment decisions.

• Optimize Oracle Cloud HCM licenses, services, environments and partner capacity within the approved commercial framework.

• Challenge unnecessary customization and recurring support costs.

• Promote reusable, maintainable and standard platform capabilities.

• Reduce avoidable operational costs and business disruption through resilient design, automation, preventive maintenance and technical-debt reduction.

• Support realization of technology benefits, including reduced manual effort, improved controls, faster processing and enhanced user experience.

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Human Resources Information Systems or a related field.

• Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in enterprise applications or HCM technology, including at least 4 years of hands-on Oracle Fusion HCM Cloud delivery, integration or senior application ownership.

• Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM certification in one or more relevant modules.

• Oracle Integration Cloud or equivalent integration/API certification.

• Strong practical knowledge of Oracle Fusion HCM architecture and relevant modules, including Core HR and working knowledge of Talent, Payroll, Benefits and Workforce Management.

• Advanced experience with Oracle Integration Cloud, REST/SOAP APIs, HCM Extracts, HDL/HSDL, BI Publisher, OTBI, Fast Formula, SQL and PL/SQL.

• Experience with role-based security, data roles, segregation of duties, audit controls and secure integration design.

• Experience with data migration, environment management, quarterly update testing, release management, incident/problem management and production support.

• Working knowledge of Agile delivery, DevOps, source control, automated testing, IT service management and enterprise architecture governance.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, technical documentation, facilitation, negotiation and stakeholder-management skills.

• Desired

• Experience supporting cloud HCM in a large, regulated or multi-entity organization with complex payroll and statutory interfaces.

• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, identity and access management, data privacy, analytics or middleware technologies.

• ITIL, TOGAF, Agile/Scrum, DevOps, project management or information-security certification.

• Exposure to SAP SuccessFactors, Workday or other leading HCM platforms.

• Experience in complex, enterprise-scale transformation environments.