Oracle Fusion HCM/Payroll Data Migration Lead (NPPV3 Eligible)

Role: Oracle Fusion HCM/Payroll Data Migration Lead (NPPV3 Eligible)

Work Location: Staffordshire - Ideally 5 days a week but we can be flexible

Hiring Type: Contract

Job Description:

Ideal Candidate Profile: A delivery-focused Oracle Fusion data migration professional who can lead the workstream at programme level while remaining fully capable of doing the detailed migration work themselves-from analysing a source extract and defining mappings to creating HDL files, fixing load errors, reconciling Fusion data and defending the results with evidence.

Required Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Strong hands-on experience delivering Oracle Fusion HCM and/or Payroll data migration activities.
• Strong understanding of Oracle Fusion HCM data structures, effective-dated data and dependencies between key migration objects.
• Practical experience preparing and loading data using Oracle HCM Data Loader (HDL); HSDL experience is beneficial.
• Ability to interpret HDL load errors, diagnose root causes and independently resolve or coordinate fixes.
• Strong SQL skills for data analysis, transformation, validation and reconciliation; PL/SQL experience is advantageous.
• Working knowledge of Oracle Fusion reporting capabilities, particularly BI Publisher and OTBI, for post-load validation and reconciliation.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel capability, including complex formulas, lookups, pivots, data cleansing, comparison and large-volume analysis; Power Query or similar analytical tooling is advantageous.
• Strong understanding of data mapping, transformation, cleansing, validation, reconciliation and migration quality controls.
• Experience working with HCM and Payroll functional teams and translating functional design/configuration into actionable migration requirements.
• Ability to analyse large and complex datasets, identify anomalies and explain data issues clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

HCM/Payroll Domain Knowledge

• The candidate should be comfortable working across a broad range of HCM and Payroll data domains. Depending on project scope, this may include:
• Enterprise structures and reference data (eg, legal employers, business units, departments, jobs, grades, locations and positions).
• Worker, person, work relationship, assignment and employment history data.
• Manager and organisational relationships.
• Payroll relationships, payroll assignments, elements, element entries, payment methods, bank information and payroll balances.
• Other HCM/Payroll objects and historical data required by the implementation.

Required Experience

• Proven experience leading data migration workstreams within Oracle Fusion HCM and/or Payroll implementation programmes.
• Demonstrable experience working directly with customer source-data teams where the customer owns Legacy extraction activities.
• Experience completing multiple migration cycles from initial mapping through mock loads, validation, reconciliation, defect resolution, cutover and final production load.
• Track record of personally performing data preparation, file creation, load execution and troubleshooting in addition to migration coordination.
• Experience presenting migration findings, data defects and resolution options to business users, functional consultants and programme leadership.

Desirable/Advantageous Skills

• Experience with UK Oracle Fusion Payroll implementations and payroll migration/reconciliation.
• Experience migrating from ResourceLink or other enterprise HR/payroll Legacy platforms.
• Knowledge of FBDI, REST/SOAP interfaces, Oracle Integration Cloud or broader Fusion integration patterns.
• Experience with data migration accelerators, ETL tools, Scripting languages or automation used to transform and validate high-volume migration data.
• Understanding of Oracle Fusion security and scheduled processes that can affect post-load data visibility or downstream processing.
• Experience with defect-management and delivery tools such as Jira, SpiraTest or similar platforms.