Job Summary:

The Senior IT Project Manager will lead complex, enterprise-scale Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) upgrade initiatives from initial planning through production deployment, hypercare, stabilization, and project closure. The role is responsible for managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, dependencies, governance, vendors, testing, cutover, and stakeholder communications while coordinating across business, functional, application, technical, database, infrastructure, integration, security, testing, and third-party teams. The successful candidate will work effectively with senior business and IT leaders, Oracle resources, system integrators, implementation partners, contractors, and external vendors in complex enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the end-to-end Oracle EBS upgrade lifecycle, including planning, assessment, design, build, remediation, testing, deployment, hypercare, stabilization, and project closure.
• Develop and maintain the upgrade strategy, roadmap, delivery milestones, and integrated project schedule.
• Coordinate Oracle EBS applications, databases, infrastructure, integrations, security, customizations, environments, and third-party applications.
• Ensure application, technical, infrastructure, and business workstreams remain aligned throughout the upgrade.
• Manage upgrade dependencies, compatibility considerations, customization remediation, integration readiness, and environment planning.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans covering milestones, critical paths, dependencies, resources, budgets, and delivery schedules.
• Manage multiple concurrent workstreams across business and technology organizations.
• Track project progress against scope, schedule, budget, quality, and resource commitments.
• Identify and resolve schedule conflicts, resource constraints, and cross-workstream dependencies.
• Establish and manage project governance and operating cadence.
• Maintain comprehensive RAID logs covering risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Drive risk identification, mitigation planning, issue resolution, escalation, and change control.
• Facilitate governance meetings, leadership reviews, and decision-making forums.
• Provide project health reporting, milestone tracking, dashboards, and executive-level status updates.
• Lead testing governance across System Integration Testing (SIT), regression testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), performance testing, and security testing.
• Coordinate testing schedules, environment readiness, business participation, and entry/exit criteria.
• Oversee defect management, prioritization, resolution, and escalation.
• Ensure critical business processes, integrations, customizations, and interfaces are appropriately validated before production deployment.
• Drive business and operational readiness for go-live.
• Develop and manage comprehensive cutover strategies and detailed cutover plans.
• Coordinate and lead mock cutovers and dress rehearsals to validate deployment procedures and timing.
• Establish production readiness and go/no-go criteria.
• Lead production deployment and command-center activities across participating teams.
• Coordinate business, application, infrastructure, integration, security, database, and vendor teams during cutover.
• Manage post-production hypercare and stabilization and ensure issues are prioritized and resolved effectively.
• Facilitate transition to steady-state production support and formal project closure.
• Serve as the primary project management interface across business and IT stakeholders.
• Facilitate executive steering committee meetings, project governance reviews, and cross-functional workstream meetings.
• Communicate project status, risks, dependencies, decisions, financials, and milestones to senior leadership.
• Drive timely decision-making and escalate critical issues when necessary.
• Build alignment among business stakeholders, technology teams, and external delivery partners.
• Coordinate internal teams, contractors, Oracle resources, implementation partners, consulting organizations, system integrators, and third-party vendors.
• Establish ownership and accountability for vendor deliverables and track partner commitments, dependencies, quality, and schedule performance.
• Facilitate resolution of cross-vendor and cross-team dependencies.
• Manage project budgets, forecasts, financial performance, and resource capacity.
• Monitor actuals against forecasts and identify financial or resource risks.
• Manage staffing requirements and capacity across multiple workstreams.
• Maintain project metrics, documentation, dashboards, and executive-level reporting.

Required Qualifications:
• 10+ years of IT Project or Program Management experience, including large-scale enterprise application implementations, upgrades, or transformation programs.
• 5-7 years of hands-on project management experience leading at least two full-lifecycle Oracle EBS upgrades or major Oracle EBS transformation initiatives.
• 5+ years of experience managing mid- to high-complexity ERP/application upgrade programs involving multiple business functions, integrations, technical dependencies, and workstreams.
• 5+ years of strong understanding of Oracle EBS architecture, modules, integrations, customizations, environments, and upgrade dependencies.
• Experience managing Oracle EBS upgrade activities including impact assessments, customization remediation, integration testing, regression testing, UAT, performance testing, cutover, production deployment, hypercare, and stabilization.
• Strong experience managing large cross-functional and multi-workstream teams.
• Proven experience developing and managing integrated project plans, RAID logs, dependency management, change control, testing governance, cutover plans, and executive reporting.
• Experience managing implementation partners, consulting organizations, system integrators, and third-party vendors.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation, risk management, and problem-solving skills.
• Working knowledge of SDLC, release management, testing methodologies, and IT change-control processes.
• Experience with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, or equivalent.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience managing Oracle EBS Release 12.2.x upgrades.
• Strong familiarity with Oracle EBS functional areas, integrations, customizations, and supporting Oracle technologies.
• Experience delivering ERP/application programs within regulated environments.
• Experience supporting global or multi-business-unit deployments.
• Experience working with geographically distributed business and technology teams.
• Experience with formal project and program management methodologies.
• Experience with enterprise project governance frameworks.
• PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Scrum, or similar project/program management certification.