Job Description
Job description
Job Title: Oracle HCM Functional and Technical Lead
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £72,080 per annum (£7+,611 is achieved after 12 months successful performance in the role)
Working Hours: 35 Hours per week
Working Pattern: Monday-Friday/Hybrid
Location: Liverpool
If you share our values and are excited about making a significant impact at Riverside, please ensure you attach a current CV and covering letter. At Riverside we recruit to potential not just on skills and experience, so we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the essential criteria on the job description.
The difference you will make as Oracle HCM Functional and Technical Lead
Riverside Digital and Technology embeds DevOps as a key method of its delivery approach and principles, the value that it delivers relies on maintaining a certain cadence, so the role holder will make sure that all members of their DevOps Chapter work well together to deliver that value.
Understand and leverage Oracle technologies within Oracle HCM. Own set of modules cradle-to-grave in a DevOps focused environment. Lead the end-to-end Agile delivery of any Oracle config and build elements, ensuring delivery within approved budget, timescales and quality and compliance standards, managing a product backlog with continuous delivery. Manage 3rd party suppliers, and key stakeholders across the Riverside Group.
About you
We are looking for someone with relevant IT qualifications, equivalent to Batchelors Degree or above. A proven Oracle Cloud HCM knowledge, and experience supporting HR functions in Oracle HCM across a medium to large-scale Oracle Cloud
Why Riverside?
At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference – enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For +0 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.
We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.
Working with us, you’ll enjoy:
• Competitive pay & generous pension
• 28 days holidays plus bank holidays
• Flexible working options available
• Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
• A wide range of benefits
Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside:
We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues.
This role also falls under our Ethnic Diversity guaranteed interview scheme. If you are Ethnically Diverse and demonstrate you meet the minimum criteria for the role you will be guaranteed an interview.
Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
Role Profile
• Be proactive in understanding and leveraging Oracle technologies and methodologies, assessing impact and benefits within assigned modules and business areas
• Provide order of magnitude estimates of both cost and resource at Discovery phase, based on high-level scope and requirements. Support project teams in refining those estimates through subsequent phases of the delivery methodology
• Ensure the appropriate planning and provision of Oracle environments for all support, enhancement and change activities, managed through the Oracle console
• Ensure non-functional requirements are established and met, and provide assurance and reporting of progress, risks and issues across all design, development, test, deployment and warranty phases
• Work with architects, business analysts and other developers (potentially including third parties) to translate business requirements into Solution Design Documents that best achieve the target capabilities and leverage the technology, data and integration effectively
• Collaborate in technical design reviews to ensure configuration and customisation follows Oracle and wider industry best practice, and to ensure they are designed, developed, tested, deployed and maintained to meet requirements
• Perform Oracle configuration through sandboxes, and maintain expertise in advanced programming concepts across PL/SQL and Fast Formulas
• Design, develop, test, document and deploy high-performance, reusable, and reliable configuration and customisation in line with Oracle best practices across technologies and methodologies
• Perform unit testing of any internal configuration or customisations, oversee appropriate unit testing of external configuration, and collaborate with Change Leads and QA Analysts to ensure QA standards are met across performance and volume testing, systems integration testing and user acceptance testing
• Manage key risks and issues across assigned modules and business areas, establishing risk mitigation or acceptance by accountable stakeholders
• Provide service and support including service requests, incidents, problem and change, proactively managing performance, availability and resilience
• Deliver the quarterly releases, identifying any technology or methodology changes that will impact assigned modules or business areas, and championing the approval, prioritisation and adoption of enhancements
• Manage Oracle as a vendor through proactive relationships with service, account management and customer success teams, and manage Oracle partners across development and support activities
• Be responsible for the Audit and compliance of the system, ensuring Oracle good practice is met in accordance with the Group’s policy, procedures and principles across logical access and change management
• Ensure that all information security requirements, including data protection, are met in accordance with the Group’s policy, procedures and statutory requirements.
• Respond flexibly to any necessary changes in work priorities, undertake other duties when requires and participate in an on-call rota if required
Person specification
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential
• Relevant IT qualifications, equivalent to Batchelors Degree or above
• Proven Oracle Cloud HCM knowledge
• Experience supporting HR functions in Oracle HCM across a medium to large-scale Oracle Cloud implementations, including key HR concepts, functional guidance and technical build for at least 3 of HCM, Payroll, Absence, Expenses, Learning, Performance, Recruitment
• Experience across Waterfall, Agile and DevOps approaches and methodologies
• Knowledge of data migration, integration, test and release strategies in relation to Oracle
• Experience of developing Oracle OTBI dashboards and reports
• Knowledge of the Oracle Cloud quarterly release cycle and key activities
• Proven experience of working with Oracle as a vendor, and with an implementation / support partner
Desirable
• completion of at least one full Oracle Cloud HCM implementation
• Oracle Cloud HCM certification
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Data Conversion
• Experience with Oracle Analytics Cloud
• Experience of Oracle Cloud delivered Web Services (SOAP & REST)
• Experience with Oracle Identity Manager, MS Active Directory, and Identity Propagation
• Experience with Oracle Cloud SaaS Security
• Experience of Java development
Job Title: Oracle HCM Functional and Technical Lead
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £72,080 per annum (£7+,611 is achieved after 12 months successful performance in the role)
Working Hours: 35 Hours per week
Working Pattern: Monday-Friday/Hybrid
Location: Liverpool
If you share our values and are excited about making a significant impact at Riverside, please ensure you attach a current CV and covering letter. At Riverside we recruit to potential not just on skills and experience, so we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the essential criteria on the job description.
The difference you will make as Oracle HCM Functional and Technical Lead
Riverside Digital and Technology embeds DevOps as a key method of its delivery approach and principles, the value that it delivers relies on maintaining a certain cadence, so the role holder will make sure that all members of their DevOps Chapter work well together to deliver that value.
Understand and leverage Oracle technologies within Oracle HCM. Own set of modules cradle-to-grave in a DevOps focused environment. Lead the end-to-end Agile delivery of any Oracle config and build elements, ensuring delivery within approved budget, timescales and quality and compliance standards, managing a product backlog with continuous delivery. Manage 3rd party suppliers, and key stakeholders across the Riverside Group.
About you
We are looking for someone with relevant IT qualifications, equivalent to Batchelors Degree or above. A proven Oracle Cloud HCM knowledge, and experience supporting HR functions in Oracle HCM across a medium to large-scale Oracle Cloud
Why Riverside?
At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference – enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For +0 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.
We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.
Working with us, you’ll enjoy:
• Competitive pay & generous pension
• 28 days holidays plus bank holidays
• Flexible working options available
• Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
• A wide range of benefits
Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside:
We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues.
This role also falls under our Ethnic Diversity guaranteed interview scheme. If you are Ethnically Diverse and demonstrate you meet the minimum criteria for the role you will be guaranteed an interview.
Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
Role Profile
• Be proactive in understanding and leveraging Oracle technologies and methodologies, assessing impact and benefits within assigned modules and business areas
• Provide order of magnitude estimates of both cost and resource at Discovery phase, based on high-level scope and requirements. Support project teams in refining those estimates through subsequent phases of the delivery methodology
• Ensure the appropriate planning and provision of Oracle environments for all support, enhancement and change activities, managed through the Oracle console
• Ensure non-functional requirements are established and met, and provide assurance and reporting of progress, risks and issues across all design, development, test, deployment and warranty phases
• Work with architects, business analysts and other developers (potentially including third parties) to translate business requirements into Solution Design Documents that best achieve the target capabilities and leverage the technology, data and integration effectively
• Collaborate in technical design reviews to ensure configuration and customisation follows Oracle and wider industry best practice, and to ensure they are designed, developed, tested, deployed and maintained to meet requirements
• Perform Oracle configuration through sandboxes, and maintain expertise in advanced programming concepts across PL/SQL and Fast Formulas
• Design, develop, test, document and deploy high-performance, reusable, and reliable configuration and customisation in line with Oracle best practices across technologies and methodologies
• Perform unit testing of any internal configuration or customisations, oversee appropriate unit testing of external configuration, and collaborate with Change Leads and QA Analysts to ensure QA standards are met across performance and volume testing, systems integration testing and user acceptance testing
• Manage key risks and issues across assigned modules and business areas, establishing risk mitigation or acceptance by accountable stakeholders
• Provide service and support including service requests, incidents, problem and change, proactively managing performance, availability and resilience
• Deliver the quarterly releases, identifying any technology or methodology changes that will impact assigned modules or business areas, and championing the approval, prioritisation and adoption of enhancements
• Manage Oracle as a vendor through proactive relationships with service, account management and customer success teams, and manage Oracle partners across development and support activities
• Be responsible for the Audit and compliance of the system, ensuring Oracle good practice is met in accordance with the Group’s policy, procedures and principles across logical access and change management
• Ensure that all information security requirements, including data protection, are met in accordance with the Group’s policy, procedures and statutory requirements.
• Respond flexibly to any necessary changes in work priorities, undertake other duties when requires and participate in an on-call rota if required
Person specification
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential
• Relevant IT qualifications, equivalent to Batchelors Degree or above
• Proven Oracle Cloud HCM knowledge
• Experience supporting HR functions in Oracle HCM across a medium to large-scale Oracle Cloud implementations, including key HR concepts, functional guidance and technical build for at least 3 of HCM, Payroll, Absence, Expenses, Learning, Performance, Recruitment
• Experience across Waterfall, Agile and DevOps approaches and methodologies
• Knowledge of data migration, integration, test and release strategies in relation to Oracle
• Experience of developing Oracle OTBI dashboards and reports
• Knowledge of the Oracle Cloud quarterly release cycle and key activities
• Proven experience of working with Oracle as a vendor, and with an implementation / support partner
Desirable
• completion of at least one full Oracle Cloud HCM implementation
• Oracle Cloud HCM certification
• Experience with Oracle Cloud Data Conversion
• Experience with Oracle Analytics Cloud
• Experience of Oracle Cloud delivered Web Services (SOAP & REST)
• Experience with Oracle Identity Manager, MS Active Directory, and Identity Propagation
• Experience with Oracle Cloud SaaS Security
• Experience of Java development
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Oracle HCM Functional and Technical Lead position is now open for candidates interested in the Database Administrator sector. This role in Liverpool offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Database Administrator is a plus.
