Description
Oracle Technical Cloud Project Manager - ERP & HCM - South London - Contract - 6 months+ £600/day
Dimensions of the Role
- Ensures that delivery is technically coherent and meets required technical standards as regards integration of the cloud based solution into the council's IT infrastructure.
- Act as the point of co-ordination between the client, the systems integration partner (SI) and other technology teams including the corporate ICT team and third party supplier.
- Work collaboratively with the SI, project team and internal stakeholders to support each phase of the implementation to time and quality; working with the SI to secure stakeholder sign-off at all stages.
- Ensures that the technical aspects of system security are set up in line with the requirements of the corporate ICT policy
- Specifies non-functional requirements for the new system including the ownership of the business continuity plan and procedures for planned system downtime for Oracle functionality upgrades.
- Develop plans to ensure all necessary preparation and execution tasks and dependencies are included.
- Manage all aspects of specific work packages.
- Work with stakeholders to ensure Design; Delivery; Technical Build; testing; reporting requirements etc are managed and delivered to date and time.
- Work with key stakeholders to manage the deployment of all aspects of the project assigned to Identify and mitigate potential risks for delivery of products
- Ensure there are resources and skills within the sub-projects for which responsible
- Operate as a full member of the team; supporting the Programme Manager and other team members as directed to project manage all aspects of specific work packages
- Manage communications with all stakeholders
- Manage risks to the programme's successful outcome
- Completion of the high level plan through to Go Live and BAU handover.
- Point of contact for all escalated technical issues.
- Identifies and owns technically based risks.
- Oversees data migration and manages escalated issues.
- Manages the technical process of ongoing report setup and production, managing internal council resources to support using the Oracle Cloud reporting toolset.
- Manages the technical setup of interfaces with the new system and owns issues arising, working with the SI and other technical stakeholders to resolve.
Key experience/skills
- Proven experience working with Oracle Cloud or Oracle ERP and with knowledge of managing data migration exercises and setting up and maintaining interfaces and their associated controls with other systems.
- Knowledge of Oracle or Oracle Cloud reporting tools, their setup and management to support regular and ad hoc reporting requests
- Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling a technical project workstream within a wider programme
- Good knowledge of programme and project management methods eg Agile/PRINCE2
- Experience in the delivery of projects; with particular emphasis on the management of suppliers and stakeholders
- Experience of governance and risk control frameworks
- Good planning and organisational skills
- Experience of stakeholder management at all levels, including senior stakeholder management
- Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, must be a team player and able to work with and through others
- Able to grasp and articulate the project vision and objectives quickly and efficiently and positively communicate this with the project team and its stakeholders.
Oracle Technical Cloud Project Manager - ERP & HCM - South London - Contract - 6 months+ £600/day