Program Manager, Federal Payroll Modernization

The Opportunity:

A Federal shared services provider delivers payroll for approximately 605,000 Federal employees across more than 150 agencies. To address inefficiencies in fragmented and aging payroll systems, it is implementing a scalable, cloud-based payroll solution that improves automation, data quality, userexperienceand compliance, with implementation for the full customer base targeted within eighteen months.

This position supports the core implementation call order, which covers discovery and fit-gap analysis, solution design and configuration, data migration, interface development, testing and parallel payroll validation, and cutover throughhypercare. In this role you will manage delivery of the assigned scope — data migration, interfaces, and legacy payroll analysis and parallel validation — including schedule, staffing, deliverables, subcontractadministrationand Government acceptance. Travel up to 25%.

Work is performed remotely from within the United States, with periodic on-site presence as the assignment requires.

Responsibilities:

• Manage delivery of the assigned scope, including schedule, resources,risksand dependencies

• Establish andmaintainscope baselines and manage change control

• Manage deliverable preparation, qualityreviewand Government acceptance

• Manage subcontract administration, performancereportingand second-tier subcontractors

• Manage staffing,onboardingand personnel security processing for the assigned scope

• Identify,trackand escalate risks and issues through program governance

• Support cutover,hypercareand transition to sustainment for the assigned scope

Qualifications:

Required:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to obtain andmaintaina Public Trust clearance

• Bachelor's degree and 7 years of relevant experience.Additionalexperience may be substituted for degree.

• 7 or more years managing delivery of IT programs, including delivering as a subcontractor within a multi-company team where another company held technical delivery leadership

• Experience managing fixed-price or deliverable-based scope, including baselining, changecontroland formal deliverable acceptance

• Federal program delivery experience, including deliverable standards, government acceptanceprocessesand past performance reporting (CPARS)

• Experience staffing and ramping a program through federal suitability determination and equipment provisioning constraints

• Demonstrated experience holding a scope boundary under commercial pressure and escalating constructively through a governance forum

Desired:

• ERP, HCM or payroll implementation delivery, particularly Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, or federal payroll, federalHRor federal shared services

• Managing data conversion and integration workstreams specifically

• A system replacement requiring parallel-run validation and a formal go/no-go acceptance decision

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, orSAFeor other scaled agile delivery certification