HR and Payroll Systems Modernization Portfolio Project Manager

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Technology Consulting

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Ability to Obtain Public Trust

• Manage individual projects under the Strategic Project Management Office, including HR and Payroll modernization initiatives, data migration efforts, system integrations, and enterprise modernization projects.
• Draft and maintain integrated project plans, executive strategic roadmaps, risk management strategies, and cross‑functional timelines, resource plans, and critical paths.
• Provide regular program updates, risks, concerns, and executive‑level insights to senior leadership.
• Coordinate with application leads, functional owners, integrators, and technical teams to ensure dependencies, system impacts, and timelines are fully understood and managed.
• Facilitate recurring program meetings, workshops, and working sessions to drive alignment, decision‑making, and issue resolution.
• Publish agendas, meeting minutes, action items, risks, and decisions for all PMO‑led meetings.
• Maintain a comprehensive RAID log and a formal Risk Management Plan encompassing resource risks, technical risks, data migration risks, workaround strategies, and design impacts.
• Track more than 100 system integrations (Payroll inbound/outbound, HR application changes, SAP, UAP, EEB, PIM, S/4
  
  HANA) across multiple modernization efforts.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and maintain an up‑to‑date stakeholder register across all active projects.
• Prepare communications, briefings, status reports, and executive‑ready presentation material.
• Support coordination across parallel modernization initiatives such as Retirement Modernization, SAP‑to‑Cloud Migration, SSoT data model changes, HR BI modernization, performance modernization, JBM decouple, ATS modernization, and related HR/Payroll transformation efforts.

• Minimum of six (6)+ years of relevant experience, examples include: program or project management supporting enterprise‑scale, multi‑year IT modernization or business transformation initiatives for payroll or HR system portfolios.
• A Bachelor’s degree is required.
• US Citizenship is required due to client project requirements.
• A PMP‑Project Management Professional certification is required.
• Proven ability to manage large programs with multiple work streams, high interdependencies, and executive visibility.
• Strong command of industry‑standard PM methodologies (PMP, Agile, hybrid approaches) and enterprise project management tools.
• Demonstrated success in:
  • Building and maintaining complex project schedules
  • Managing cross‑functional teams
  • Leading executive‑level briefings
  • Facilitating working sessions and driving decision‑making
• Excellent organizational, documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to anticipate issues, conduct risk analysis, and build mitigation plans across technical, functional, and schedule dimensions.
• Experience in IT PMO for a large payroll technology implementation or a large human capital management technology implementation.
• Experience coordinating with multiple technical and business teams simultaneously (HR, Payroll, Financial Systems, Data Engineering, Integration Platforms, Cloud Operations).
• Ability to work with highly complex legacy‑to‑cloud transition programs, particularly those involving parallel operations and large‑scale data migration.

• Agile Certification (such as PMI‑ACP, Certified Scrum Master, or equivalent) is preferred.
• Hands‑on familiarity with Service Now HR workflows or HR process modernization initiatives.
• Prior involvement in implementing Single Source of Truth (SSoT) data architectures.
• Change management, communications strategy, or organizational readiness expertise.
• Federal consulting experience and/or managing PMO environments with technical SMEs and analyst support teams.
• Technology certifications relative to IT Modernization initiatives or associate disciplines such as (but not limited to) AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals, COMPTIA Security+, CompTIA Cloud Essentials, Fin Ops Practitioner, etc.
• Experience in:
  • Direct experience with SaaS Payroll solutions (Ceridian, Workday, Oracle, SAP Success Factors, or similar)
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