Information Technology Project Manager

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

Location: Dallas, TX | Work Arrangement: Hybrid - 4 days onsite

Optomi, in partnership with a large enterprise organization, is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the implementation of Oracle Recruiting Cloud. This individual will oversee a complex migration from a legacy applicant tracking system and coordinate multiple workstreams across Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, HRIS, IT, and an external implementation partner.

The ideal candidate has successfully managed an Oracle Recruiting Cloud or comparable enterprise ATS implementation through the full project lifecycle. This person should be comfortable bringing structure and accountability to complex initiatives, communicating with executive stakeholders, and driving timely decisions when priorities or requirements are unclear.

What the Right Candidate Will Enjoy

• Leading a highly visible, enterprise-wide HR technology transformation.
• Owning a complex implementation from initiation through post-go-live stabilization.
• Partnering closely with HR, Talent Acquisition, HRIS, IT, and executive leadership.
• Managing an external implementation partner and multiple interconnected workstreams.
• Improving recruiting, onboarding, candidate, and hiring-manager experiences.
• Building the governance and structure necessary to keep a critical initiative on track.

Experience of the Right Candidate

• Demonstrated experience managing an HRIS, HCM, recruiting-platform, or enterprise ATS implementation end-to-end.
• Experience with Oracle Recruiting Cloud or Oracle HCM Cloud is strongly preferred.
• Candidates with implementation experience across other enterprise ATS platforms may also be considered.
• Familiarity with recruiting, onboarding, compliance, requisition approval, candidate, and hiring-manager workflows.
• Experience coordinating HR, HRIS, IT, technical SMEs, and third-party implementation vendors.
• Strong command of project plans, RAID logs, resource plans, decision logs, status reports, and executive dashboards.
• Experience managing data migration, testing, cutover, go-live, and Hypercare activities.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Ability to drive decisions, accountability, and progress in a complex, fast-paced environment.

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.