Functional Consultant Lead

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio.

We are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Applications Functional Lead to oversee, enhance, and support our core business platforms including Oracle and Workday
. This role serves as the strategic and technical lead for application development, integrations, and business functionality across various client-facing systems. The ideal candidate brings a strong blend of Functional expertise, technical understanding, system analysis, New technology feature development and strong project management.

• Lead the end-to-end support, configuration, and optimization of Oracle and Workday application environments.
• Strong knowledge and experience working on various M&A projects.
• Serve as the primary technical SME for cross-platform issues, integrations, and performance enhancements.
• Guide the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and reliable system architecture across enterprise applications.
• Act as a techno-functional liaison between business teams, IT, and external partners to ensure system capability aligns with functional requirements.
• Analyze business processes and recommend improvements leveraging Oracle and Workday features and best practices.
• Support configuration, testing, troubleshooting, and release management activities for HR, finance, and operational modules.
• Manage and optimize integrations between Oracle, Workday, and other client systems.
• Ensure data integrity, access controls, and compliance with internal governance policies.

• Lead a small team of analysts/developers providing direction, coaching, and technical mentorship.
• Conduct root-cause analysis sessions, technical reviews, and performance assessments.
• Partner with business stakeholders, application owners, and infrastructure teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Manage vendors and coordinate activities for upgrades, patches, integrations, and system releases.

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US.

Bachelor's Degree.

12+ years of experience in enterprise application development, support and functional leadership roles.

Deep expertise in:

• Oracle Applications (ERP / HCM / Financials or relevant modules)
• Workday (HCM, Finance, Integrations, Reporting)
• Strong experience in HR, Payroll, Benefits integrations
• Functional experience and process configuration knowledge in HR module of Workday
• M&A Experience and handled at least 2-3 large acquisition/divestiture projects

Strong techno-functional understanding of business processes across HR Function.

Basic knowledge with integrations (REST, SOAP, APIs, middleware), data flows, and troubleshooting complex application issues.

Strong SQL/PLSQL expertise with analytical level skillset.

Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Demonstrated experience managing stakeholders and supporting client-facing systems in a fast-paced environment.

Workday HCM Certifications.

Experience leading cross-functional initiatives or enterprise transformation programs.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours.

Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.