Senior IT Project Manager - Oracle EBS Upgrade - REMOTE (Pittsburgh, PA, US)

Req ID: 389163

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We are currently seeking a Senior IT Project Manager - Oracle EBS Upgrade - REMOTE to join our team in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US-PA), United States (US).

We are seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager to lead a complex, enterprise-scale Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) upgrade from initial planning through production deployment, hypercare, and stabilization.

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of IT project/program management experience , including hands-on leadership of at least two full-lifecycle Oracle EBS upgrades or major Oracle EBS transformation initiatives .

This role will be responsible for managing the overall scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, dependencies, governance, vendors, testing, cutover, and stakeholder communications . The Project Manager will coordinate across business, functional, application, technical, database, infrastructure, integration, security, testing, and third-party teams to ensure successful delivery.

The successful candidate should be comfortable working with senior business leaders, IT leadership, Oracle/support organizations, system integrators, implementation partners, contractors, and third-party vendors in a complex enterprise environment.
Day to Day Responsibilities:

- Lead the end-to-end Oracle EBS upgrade lifecycle , including planning, assessment, design, build, remediation, testing, deployment, hypercare, stabilization, and project closure.

- Develop and maintain the overall upgrade strategy, roadmap, delivery milestones, and integrated project schedule.

- Coordinate activities across Oracle EBS applications, databases, infrastructure, integrations, security, customizations, environments, and third-party applications .

- Ensure application, technical, infrastructure, and business workstreams remain aligned throughout the upgrade.

- Manage upgrade dependencies, compatibility considerations, customization remediation, integration readiness, and environment planning.

Project Planning & Delivery Management

- Develop and manage the Integrated Project Plan , including milestones, critical path, dependencies, resources, budgets, and delivery schedules.

- Manage multiple concurrent workstreams across business and technology organizations.

- Track project progress against scope, schedule, budget, quality, and resource commitments.

- Identify schedule conflicts, resource constraints, and cross-workstream dependencies and drive them to resolution.

- Ensure project deliverables, documentation, approvals, and stage-gate requirements are completed according to agreed timelines.

Governance, RAID & Change Control

- Establish and manage effective project governance and operating cadence .

- Maintain comprehensive RAID logs covering Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies .

- Drive risk identification, mitigation planning, issue resolution, and appropriate escalation.

- Establish and manage project change-control processes , including assessment of scope, schedule, resource, and financial impacts.

- Facilitate project governance meetings, leadership reviews, and decision-making forums.

- Provide clear and concise project health reporting, milestone tracking, and executive dashboards.

Testing Governance

- Lead overall testing governance across:
- System Integration Testing (SIT)

- Regression Testing

- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

- Performance Testing

- Security Testing

- Coordinate testing schedules, environment readiness, business participation, and entry/exit criteria.

- Oversee defect management, prioritization, resolution, and escalation.

- Ensure critical business processes, integrations, customizations, and interfaces are appropriately validated before production deployment.

- Drive business and operational readiness