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Job Title: Oracle HCM Payroll Configurator & Integration Lead
Job Location: Pittsburgh, PA Onsite Day 1 in office
Job Duration: Contract
Job Description:
- Senior/Lead role
- 15 years of payroll technology experience (Oracle Cloud HCM Payroll focus)
- CPP certification (American Payroll Association) required
Overview
- Lead the design and delivery of Oracle Cloud HCM Payroll configuration and integrations in complex, multi-entity environments. Partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, Tax, and IT to ensure accurate payroll processing, compliant setup, and reliable end-to-end data flows.
Responsibilities
- Configure and support Oracle Cloud HCM Payroll (elements, balances, costing, payment methods, payroll flows, and key payroll controls).
- Design and build integrations using HCM Extracts, HDL, BI Publisher, REST/SOAP APIs, and Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) to/from time, benefits, tax, finance/GL, and third-party vendors.
- Ensure statutory and policy compliance (including year-end and multi-jurisdiction scenarios) and partner on audit readiness, reconciliations, and segregation-of-duties controls.
- Monitor and improve payroll run reliability and integration performance; troubleshoot production issues and implement long-term fixes.
- Lead testing (SIT/UAT/parallel payroll), release planning, and documentation; mentor analysts and engineers.
- Translate business requirements into scalable solutions; lead workshops, solution reviews, and stakeholder communication.
Required Qualifications
- 15 years of payroll technology experience, including hands-on Oracle Cloud HCM Payroll configuration and integrations
- Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) from the American Payroll Association (APA).
- Strong expertise in payroll configuration (elements/balances/costing/flows), Fast Formulas, and payroll integrations (Extracts/HDL/APIs/OIC)
- Proven delivery of large-scale payroll implementations or transformations (multi-entity and/or multi-jurisdiction)
- Deep knowledge of payroll compliance (tax withholding, garnishments, taxable wages, year-end processing)
- Strong controls mindset (audit readiness, RBAC/security, data privacy)
- Excellent troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across payroll configuration and integrations
- Strong communication skills and ability to lead cross-functional delivery
Preferred Qualifications
- Union payroll experience (premiums, shift differentials, collective bargaining)
- Integrations with timekeeping (UKG/Kronos or similar) and benefits/tax vendors
- Payroll costing and GL/ERP integrations
- CI/CD or automated testing for HCM artifacts (a plus)
- Parallel payroll testing and cutover planning
- Data governance and cross-system mapping experience
Skills
- Oracle Cloud HCM Payroll configuration (elements, balances, flows, costing)
- Fast Formulas; HCM Extracts; HDL; BI Publisher/OTBI
- Integration development (OIC, REST/SOAP, SFTP, JSON/XML)
- Release management and documentation; familiarity with version control
- SQL for validation, reconciliation, and troubleshooting
Education
- Bachelor's degree in a related field (advanced degree a plus)
ABOUT US
Apptad offers strategic consulting, enterprise information management and digital transformation services. With globally connected offices in US and India along with a team of trained and certified IT resources, Apptad ensures quick and effective delivery to its customers.Apptad is relentlessly reinventing the outlook of how companies leverage data.
With an effort to enable our customers the ability to solve biggest problems within their organization.We perceive our clients problems and respond with custom solutions instead of handing over boilerplate responses.
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