Enterprise HR Tech Project Lead: Oracle Recruiting Cloud

Optomi; Fort Worth (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Optomi, in partnership with a large enterprise, seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead the Oracle Recruiting Cloud implementation and oversee a complex ATS migration across HR, Talent Acquisition, HRIS, IT, and an external partner.

The ideal candidate will bring structure and accountability to the initiative, communicate with executives, govern multiple workstreams, and drive timely decisions in a fast-paced hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• Experience managing an HRIS, HCM, recruiting-platform, or enterprise ATS implementation end-to-end.
• Experience with Oracle Recruiting Cloud or Oracle HCM Cloud preferred.
• Ability to coordinate HR, HRIS, IT, SMEs, and third-party vendors.
• Strong command of project plans, RAID logs, resource plans, decision logs, status reports, and executive dashboards.
• Experience data migration, testing, cutover, go-live, and Hypercare.

Responsibilities

• Own the full implementation lifecycle, including scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, dependencies, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Establish and maintain project governance, including change control, escalation paths, decision tracking, and milestone-review cadences.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business leadership, internal project teams, and the external implementation partner.
• Coordinate participation across design, configuration, integrations, data conversion, testing, training, deployment, and stabilization.
• Lead regular project-status and steering-committee reviews with executive sponsors.
• Communicate milestone progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, and budget impacts clearly and proactively.
• Manage scope changes by evaluating their impact on timing, resources, and budget and ensuring decisions are formally documented.
• Coordinate legacy-system data migration, internal validation, mock conversions, reconciliation, and business sign-off.
• Organize SIT and UAT activities, including test schedules, business resources, defect triage, retesting, and milestone approvals.
• Lead cutover planning, go-live execution, Hypercare, and the transition into ongoing operational support.

Skills

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Agile delivery

Waterfall delivery

Hybrid delivery

Project governance

RAID logs

Tools

Oracle Recruiting Cloud

Oracle HCM Cloud

HRIS systems

Job description

Optomi, in partnership with a large enterprise, seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead the Oracle Recruiting Cloud implementation and oversee a complex ATS migration across HR, Talent Acquisition, HRIS, IT, and an external partner.

The ideal candidate will bring structure and accountability to the initiative, communicate with executives, govern multiple workstreams, and drive timely decisions in a fast-paced hybrid environment.