Manpower Hiring! Full Time Oracle HCM Cloud Data Migration Lead (Payroll - HR) | Contract in - Ricebowl

Responsibilities

Strategy & Planning

• Define and own the end-to-end Data Migration Strategy, including scope, approach, tooling, timeline and resource plan aligned to the overall programme schedule.
• Conduct legacy system assessment and data landscape analysis to identify volumes, complexity, data quality gaps and migration risk.
• Establish the Data Migration Governance Framework, including RACI, escalation paths, data sign-off protocols and cutover decision gates.
• Develop and maintain the Migration Project Plan (MPP), tracking progress against key milestones including mock migrations and dress rehearsals.
• Define data retention, archiving and disposal policies for historical records not migrated into Oracle HCM Cloud.

Design & Architecture

• Lead data mapping workshops with HR, Payroll and IT SMEs to produce comprehensive source-to-target mapping documents covering all HCM data objects (Core HR, Absence, Talent, Payroll Balances, Position, Assignment History, etc.).
• Design Oracle HCM Cloud HDL (HCM Data Loader) and HSDL (HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader) templates for all in-scope data objects, accommodating legacy data structures and transformation rules.
• Architect the historical data migration approach for payroll balance migration, ensuring year-to-date, period-to-date and statutory balances are accurately converted.
• Define data cleansing and enrichment rules, working with the client's HR Operations team to remediate systemic data quality issues prior to migration.
• Establish a robust data reconciliation and audit framework to validate migrated data against source systems.

Execution & Delivery

• Lead and manage a team of Data Migration Analysts and ETL developers through iterative extraction, transformation, loading and validation cycles.
• Oversee development of extraction scripts, transformation logic and HDL load programs, ensuring alignment with Oracle best practices and client IT standards.
• Plan and execute multiple mock migration cycles (typically 3–5), conducting lessons-learned reviews and continuous improvement of migration artefacts between cycles.
• Manage data migration cutover activities including freeze dates, delta extraction, final load sequencing, rollback procedures and go-live validation.
• Coordinate with Oracle Support and Accenture Oracle CoE to resolve data load errors, HDL exceptions and system-specific configuration issues.
• Produce and maintain a comprehensive Data Migration Artefact Library: strategy, mapping specs, transformation rules, DQ reports, sign-off logs and reconciliation evidence.

Stakeholder & Programme Management

• Serve as the primary point of contact for all data migration matters with client senior stakeholders, including HR Directors, CIO, and Data Protection Officers.
• Provide regular migration status reporting to the Programme Board, including RAG status, volume metrics, DQ KPIs and key risk/issue updates.
• Facilitate data sign-off workshops with business owners to obtain formal approval of migrated data prior to go-live.
• Collaborate with Oracle Functional Leads (Core HR, Payroll, Absence, Talent) to ensure migration sequencing respects functional dependencies.
• Manage third -party supplier relationships where legacy data extraction is performed by incumbent system vendors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Information Technology, Human Resources, or a related discipline
• Minimum 12–15 years of experience across HR technology consulting, enterprise data migration, and Oracle HCM Cloud implementations
• Proven experience leading the Data Migration workstream for at least 3 end-to-end Oracle HCM Cloud implementations from discovery through hypercare
• Hands-on experience with Oracle HCM Cloud Data Loader (HDL) and HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader (HSDL)
• Expertise in Oracle HCM modules including Core HR, Payroll, Talent Management, Absence, Position Management, and Assignment History
• Experience managing full payroll migration and payroll balance uploads within Oracle Cloud Payroll environments
• Good understanding of data migration methodologies, reconciliation processes, data quality frameworks, and governance controls
• Experience designing source-to-target mappings, transformation logic, cutover plans, reconciliation frameworks, and migration runbooks
• Familiarity with ETL processes, SQL, data transformation scripting, and enterprise integration concepts
Ability to manage multiple workstreams in large-scale transformation programmes with tight timelines and complex dependencies

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