Senior Program Manager

Ashburn Consulting LLC; Falls Church (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashburn Consulting is seeking a visionary Senior Program Manager with deep HRIT and Oracle HCM Cloud expertise to lead enterprise migration, implementation, and long-term support. You will own the end-to-end roadmap, governance, and deployment while guiding technical design and day-to-day resolution of critical service requests.

You will coordinate with HR and IT executives and external partners, manage budgets, and mitigate deployment risks.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive techno-functional IT/HRIS program management experience.
• At least 6 years of direct experience with Oracle HCM Cloud products/solutions and large migrations.
• Leadership depth: 5+ years in a Program Manager role managing multi-stream programs.

Responsibilities

• Define the migration vision, delivery methodology, roadmaps, and governance.
• Establish program steering committees, KPI tracking, and risk management frameworks.
• Coordinate between HR leadership, IT executives, and external implementation partners.
• Own the program budget, ensuring cost controls and resource optimization.
• Identify and mitigate deployment risks, data loss, and go-live friction.
• Oversee technical design, data migration, data cleansing, and historical archiving.
• Guide integrations between Oracle Cloud HCM and third-party systems (OIC, Fast Formulas).
• Ensure compliance with data privacy and security standards, including rigorous testing.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder management

Data migration

Risk management

Governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/MIS/HR

Tools

Oracle HCM Cloud

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)

Job description

Company Description
We are seeking a visionary, highly technical Senior Program Manager who also is a business domain expert in HRIT to lead our enterprise-wide migration, implementation, and long-term support of Oracle Fusion HCM Cloud applications. In this high-impact role, you will bridge the gap between executive strategy and hands-on execution. You will own the end-to-end strategic roadmap, governance, and deployment of moving legacy HR systems to a unified Oracle Cloud HCM platform while directly leading the technical design, configuration, and day-to-day resolution of critical customer service requests.

Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership, Governance & Risk Management

• Define the vision: Shape the enterprise migration strategy, delivery methodology, Redwood UI rollout plans, and deployment roadmaps.
• Direct governance: Establish program steering committees, corporate risk management frameworks, and KPIs to track migration and platform health.
• Manage stakeholders: Act as the primary liaison between HR executive leadership, IT executives, and external implementation partners to map business processes.
• Control budgets: Own fiscal responsibility for the program budget, ensuring strict cost controls and resource optimization.
• Mitigate deployment risks: Proactively identify, track, and manage critical program risks, including business continuity disruption, data loss, and go-live deployment friction.
• Design contingency plans: Formulate robust rollback strategies, disaster recovery plans, and operational workarounds to protect core HR operations during cutover phases.

Technical, Implementation & Support Oversight

• Translate requirements: Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand functional requirements and translate them into technical design documents.
• Architect the cutover: Oversee complex data migration strategies, data cleansing protocols, and historical data archiving.
• Drive issue resolution: Diagnose, replicate, and resolve complex functional and technical issues for critical service requests to achieve complete customer satisfaction.
• Manage integrations: Guide technical teams on complex integrations and configurations between Oracle Cloud HCM and third-party systems using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and Fast Formulas.
• Ensure compliance: Guarantee that the migrated platform adheres to data privacy laws, data security frameworks, and rigorous unit testing parameters.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications

• Total Experience: 12+ years of progressive techno-functional IT/HRIS program management experience with at least 6 years of direct experience with Oracle HCM Cloud products/solutions, including a proven track record leading at least two full-lifecycle, large-scale migrations (10,000+ employees).
• Leadership Depth: Minimum 5 years in a Program Manager role managing multi-stream programs.

Additional Information
Education

• Degree: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Management Information Systems (MIS), Human Resources, or a related field.

Certifications

• Oracle Cloud HCM Certified Implementation Specialist (Highly Preferred)
• PMP (Project Management Professional) (Preferred)
• Prosci Certified Change Management Professional (To mitigate user adoption risks during software replacement) (Preferred)
• HRIP (Human Resources Information Professional) from IHRIM (nice to have)

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Ashburn Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. In compliance with the American with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request and accommodation in order to apply for a position with Ashburn Consulting, please e-mail [e-mail].”