Principal Consultant-Deployment & Governance Manager

Role – Principal Consultant

Technology – Oracle Fusion HCM, Orbit, Deployment Readiness, Testing, Training, Cutover and Transition

Location – United Kingdom

Job Description

The Deployment & Governance Manager will lead deployment of the Solution across Early Adopter User Organizations and subsequent deployment waves. The role is responsible for ensuring that each User Organization is prepared to adopt, test, validate, train, implement and operationally transition to the solution.

The role acts as the primary programme lead for User Organization deployment activities and governs readiness across people, process, technology, data, training, communications, operational support and program controls.

Your role

You will provide direct leadership to Senior Readiness Leads, User Organization Deployment Leads, Governance Leads, Cutover & Transition Leads, and Readiness & Adoption Teams. You will establish a consistent deployment approach, drive accountability for readiness outcomes, manage escalations and provide consolidated reporting across deployment waves.

Success will be measured through adoption, user readiness, deployment milestones, go-live stability, benefits realization, User Organization satisfaction, reduced hyper care issues and successful transition into business-as-usual operations.

Responsibilities:

User Organization Deployment Leadership

• Establish the deployment approach for each User Organization.

• Develop deployment roadmaps and wave plans.

• Manage deployment schedules, milestones and dependencies.

• Lead User Organization engagement throughout the deployment lifecycle.

• Ensure consistency of deployment standards and approach across all User Organizations.

• Drive program-wide deployment readiness governance.

Leadership of Senior Readiness Leads

• Set deployment priorities and define readiness criteria.

• Provide leadership and direction to Senior Readiness Leads assigned to User Organizations.

• Review progress and readiness outcomes across all User Organizations.

• Resolve escalations and drive accountability for delivery.

• Ensure consistent deployment standards across all waves.

• Consolidate deployment and readiness reporting for program governance.

Senior Readiness Leads will operate as the primary deployment representatives within each User Organization and report to the Deployment & Governance Manager.

User Organization Readiness Management

Establish and govern readiness assessments, ensuring each User Organization achieves agreed thresholds before progressing to deployment.

Business Readiness

• Leadership commitment

• Deployment sponsorship

• Operational preparedness

• Process adoption

Organizational Readiness

• Change readiness

• Communications readiness

• Stakeholder engagement

• Local governance

Functional Readiness

• Oracle Fusion HCM processes

• Orbit processes

• Reporting processes

• Local business procedures

Technical Readiness

• Interfaces

• Infrastructure dependencies

• Security requirements

• Access management

Operational Readiness

• Service Desk preparedness

• Support model readiness

• Hypercare planning

• Transition readiness

Testing Governance

Lead User Organization participation in testing and ensure formal testing sign-off is achieved before deployment approval.

• UAT readiness assessments, planning and coordination.

• Business validation planning and test execution governance.

• Defect prioritization, escalation and UAT reporting.

• Business sign-off management.

• User Organization participation in SIT validation and UAT execution.

• End-to-end business scenario testing and operational acceptance testing.

• Deployment readiness validation.

Training, Change and Adoption Leadership

Own deployment-related training and adoption outcomes, working closely with Change, Communications, Training and Benefits Realization teams.

• Execute the training strategy and govern the Train-the-Trainer approach.

• Lead user education planning and readiness communications.

• Track adoption and training outcomes.

• Engage Change Champions and executive stakeholders.

Cutover and Go-Live Governance

Lead governance for go-live preparation and deployment execution in accordance with agreed controls and deployment criteria.

• Cutover planning and deployment governance.

• Dress rehearsal governance and readiness reviews.

• Go / No-Go recommendations and executive deployment reporting.

• Deployment risk management and escalation.

• Hypercare coordination and transition into business-as-usual operations.

Required

• Should have minimum 8-12 years of experience as project manager

Preferred

• Should be excellent planner when it comes to perform release planning and other delivery planning.
• Should have excellent problem-solving skills
• Responsible for Coaching and mentoring team members
• UK Public Sector transformation experience.
• Experience deploying workforce, HR, payroll or enterprise cloud solutions.
• Familiarity with Oracle Fusion HCM and associated workforce processes.
• Experience supporting multi-organization deployment programmers.
• Knowledge of change, training, adoption and benefits realization practices.

Personal

Besides the professional qualifications of the candidates, we place great importance in addition to various forms personality profile. These include:

• High analytical skills
• High customer orientation

Why Infosys

Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation.

With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.

“All aspects of employment at Infosys are based on merit, competence and performance. We are committed to embracing diversity and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Infosys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.”