Sr IT Project Manager with Oracle EBS

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead and manage large-scale Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) upgrades and enterprise application transformation initiatives. 

Key Skills / Requirements

The ideal candidate will play a critical role in managing end-to-end Oracle EBS upgrade projects, coordinating cross-functional teams, overseeing project governance, and ensuring successful delivery within approved scope, schedule, and budget. Candidates should have experience managing multiple workstreams, technical dependencies, testing, cutover, vendor relationships, and executive stakeholder communications.

Key Responsibilities – Project Leadership & Planning

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  • Hands-on project management experience leading at least two full-lifecycle Oracle EBS upgrades or major Oracle EBS transformation initiatives.
  
  
  
  

• Experience managing complex enterprise projects involving multiple workstreams, integrations, business functions, and technical dependencies.


• Strong understanding of Oracle EBS architecture, functional modules, integrations, customizations, environments, and upgrade dependencies.


• Proven ability to manage the complete project lifecycle, including planning, design, build, testing, deployment, hypercare, and project closure.


• Experience developing and managing integrated project plans, milestones, critical paths, schedules, budgets, resources, and dependencies.


• Strong knowledge of project governance, RAID management, change control, escalation processes, status reporting, and executive dashboards.


• Experience coordinating application, database, infrastructure, integration, security, and third-party compatibility activities.


• Experience overseeing SIT, regression, performance, security, and UAT testing, including defect management and business readiness.


• Proven experience managing cutover planning, mock cutovers, go/no-go decisions, production deployment, command-center activities, and post-go-live stabilization.


• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience facilitating executive steering committees and cross-functional governance meetings.


• Experience managing implementation partners, consulting organizations, Oracle resources, contractors, and third-party vendors.


• Ability to manage project financials, forecasts, resource capacity, project metrics, and delivery commitments.


• Working knowledge of SDLC, release management, testing methodologies, and IT change-control processes.


• Experience with project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8–11 years of relevant IT project/program management experience, with experience managing large-scale enterprise application implementations, upgrades, or transformations.


• Experience managing Oracle EBS Release 12.2.x upgrades.


• Familiarity with Oracle EBS functional areas, integrations, customizations, and supporting Oracle technologies.


• Experience working in regulated environments and supporting global or multi-business-unit deployments.


• PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Scrum, or other relevant project/program management certifications.


• Experience with Thermo Fisher project governance is a plus.