- Lead the end-to-end delivery of the Oracle EBS upgrade, from planning and impact assessment through deployment, stabilization, and hypercare.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering scope, schedule, resources, budget, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables.
- Coordinate multiple workstreams across business, functional, technical, infrastructure, security, integration, and testing teams.
- Manage RAID logs, dependencies, issues, change control, decisions, and escalation processes throughout the project lifecycle.
- Oversee testing activities including integration testing, regression testing, UAT, and performance testing.
- Lead cutover planning, Go/No-Go readiness, production deployment, and post-production stabilization.
- Coordinate remediation of Oracle EBS customizations, integrations, technical dependencies, and other upgrade impacts.
- Manage implementation partners, consulting organizations, Oracle/support partners, system integrators, and third-party vendors.
- Track project financials, budgets, resource plans, and delivery commitments.
- Provide clear project updates, executive reporting, risk assessments, and recommendations to business and IT leadership.
- Facilitate decision-making across stakeholders and ensure critical risks, issues, and dependencies are addressed in a timely manner.
- Ensure project delivery follows established SDLC, release management, testing, governance, and IT change-control processes.
- Drive successful delivery within approved scope, schedule, and budget while minimizing business disruption during deployment and stabilization.
- 8+ years of IT project or program management experience supporting large enterprise application implementations, upgrades, or transformations.
- Hands-on project management experience leading at least two full-lifecycle Oracle EBS upgrades or major Oracle EBS transformations.
- Experience managing ERP or enterprise application upgrades in mid- to high-complexity environments involving multiple workstreams, integrations, business functions, and technical dependencies.
- Strong understanding of Oracle EBS architecture, modules, integrations, customizations, environments, and upgrade dependencies.
- Experience managing impact assessments, customization remediation, integration and regression testing, UAT, performance testing, cutover, deployment, and hypercare.
- Demonstrated experience leading large cross-functional teams and complex, multi-workstream enterprise projects.
- Strong experience managing integrated project plans, RAID logs, dependencies, change control, cutover planning, and executive reporting.
- Experience managing system integrators, implementation partners, consulting organizations, and third-party vendors.
- Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, risk management, and problem-solving skills.
- 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.
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience managing Oracle EBS Release 12.2.x upgrades.
- Strong familiarity with Oracle EBS functional areas, integrations, customizations, and supporting Oracle technologies.
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $83,250- $112,500 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
401(k) plan and contributions
Long-term/Short-term Disability
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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