Job Details

University IT (UIT), part of the Business Affairs organization at Stanford University, delivers enterprise technology services that enable research, teaching, administration, and healthcare. UIT is advancing a multi-year strategy to modernize critical business platforms through adoption of cloud-first enterprise solutions.

UIT is seeking a technically accomplished Systems Manager, HR Systems to lead operational delivery for the University’s Human Capital Management ecosystem, with primary responsibility for Oracle Fusion HCM. This role blends hands-on technical leadership with people management, guiding analysts and developers in building scalable, secure, and resilient enterprise and custom HR solutions that support institutional priorities.

Core Responsibilities:

• Provide architectural and technical leadership across Oracle Fusion HCM, including configuration strategy, extensions, integrations, data architecture, and development of custom HR solutions where platform capabilities require augmentation.
• Manage, mentor, and grow a cross-functional team of analysts and developers while serving as the senior technical escalation point.
• Establish design standards, integration patterns, and development frameworks that promote reuse, scalability, maintainability, and effective custom solution delivery.
• Guide solution decisions across the full delivery lifecycle (analysis, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and optimization).
• Partner with enterprise architecture and platform teams to align HR solutions with institutional cloud, integration, and security strategies.
• Lead technical roadmap planning, balancing modernization initiatives, technical debt reduction, and delivery of business capabilities.
• Ensure solutions meet expectations for performance, security, compliance, and operational supportability.

Key Duties:

• Oversee development of integrations, extensions, automations, custom applications, and reporting using Oracle Fusion tools and enterprise integration platforms.
• Drive architectural reviews, code quality standards, and design governance across the HR systems portfolio, including custom-built solutions.
• Translate complex business requirements into enterprise-grade solution architectures and pragmatic implementation approaches spanning SaaS configuration and custom development.
• Define and promote best practices for environment management, release processes, testing strategy, and DevOps alignment within SaaS and custom application ecosystems.
• Lead vendor and partner technical engagement, including design validation and delivery oversight.
• Collaborate with teams across the university to deliver cohesive, enterprise-wide solutions and shared platform capabilities.
• Identify opportunities for optimization, automation, and strategic custom solution development to address gaps or enhance user experience.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of progressive IT experience spanning enterprise application architecture, configuration, development, and delivery of custom business solutions.
• 5+ years delivering solutions within Oracle Fusion HCM (e.g., Payroll, Time & Labor, Core HR, or related modules).
• Demonstrated experience designing and building custom HR applications, extensions, or middleware services that complement SaaS HCM platforms.
• Proven experience leading technical teams and establishing architectural direction for cloud-based enterprise platforms.
• Experience supporting hybrid HCM landscapes and transformation initiatives.
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft HCM and experience supporting or migrating legacy PeopleSoft environments is strongly preferred.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Deep understanding of Oracle Fusion HCM architecture, security model, extensibility framework, and integration patterns.
• Hands-on familiarity with Oracle Fusion development and integration capabilities (REST/SOAP APIs, HDL/HSDL, BI Publisher, OTBI, Fast Formulas, and PaaS extensions).
• Experience building custom HR solutions using modern development frameworks, low-code platforms, or PaaS services integrated with enterprise HCM ecosystems.
• Experience defining solution patterns for data integration, event-driven workflows, and cross-system orchestration.
• Strong grasp of cloud architecture principles, identity and access management, and secure integration design.
• Ability to perform architectural trade-off analysis and guide teams toward pragmatic, supportable solutions.
• Solid understanding of SDLC, DevOps practices, and release management in SaaS and custom development environments.
• Familiarity with PeopleSoft architecture, data structures, and integration approaches to support coexistence or migration strategies.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence technical direction across diverse teams and stakeholders.

Education & Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, MIS, or a related field preferred and five years of work experience, or a combination of education and relevant experience.

The expected pay range for this position is $178,547 to $210,723 per annum.