PeopleSoft Techno-Functional Lead - Remote (No H1B and CPT )

Job Description

Role Summary

The PeopleSoft Techno-Functional Lead owns end-to-end delivery leadership across PeopleSoft implementation, upgrade, enhancement, and AMS/production-support programs. The role blends deep functional process knowledge with strong technical depth and delivery-management capability to drive solution design, stabilization, release governance, stakeholder management, and continuous improvement across HCM, Payroll, FSCM, Supply Chain, or Campus Solutions as applicable.

Functional Leadership

• Lead business requirement workshops, discovery sessions, and fit-gap analysis with client stakeholders.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable, standards-aligned PeopleSoft solutions.
• Provide cross-module consulting across HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Time & Labor, Absence Management, Financials, and Supply Chain.
• Validate business impact, process dependencies, and configuration impacts for enhancements and support issues.
• Drive process optimization and the adoption of PeopleSoft leading practices.

Technical Leadership

• Review and approve technical designs, development approaches, and customization strategies.
• Provide oversight across PeopleCode, Application Engine, Application Packages, Component Interface, Integration Broker, SQR, BI Publisher, PS Query, and Fluid/UI development.
• Govern integrations with third-party systems, middleware, payroll providers, IAM/AD, and ERP/GL platforms.
• Enforce architecture standards, coding standards, security, and performance-tuning practices.

Delivery, Release & Support Governance

• Own overall AMS/support delivery for PeopleSoft applications and integrations.
• Lead P1/P2 incident governance, service-restoration planning, and coordinated issue resolution.
• Drive RCA, recurring-issue elimination, backlog governance, and SLA/KPI reporting.
• Govern PUM image adoption, PeopleTools upgrades, patching, retrofits, and release readiness.
• Support SIT/UAT cycles and ensure smooth, low-risk production deployments.

Team & Stakeholder Leadership

• Manage onsite and offshore teams, shifts, escalations, and capacity planning.
• Mentor functional and technical consultants and conduct quality assurance reviews.
• Manage stakeholder expectations, steering-committee updates, and executive communication.
• Drive automation, knowledge management, and continuous-improvement initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 10+ years
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• PeopleSoft Experience: 10+ years of PeopleSoft techno-functional experience with proven end-to-end delivery.
• Leadership Experience: 5+ years in a lead / people-management capacity across onsite–offshore models.
• Project Experience: Demonstrated experience in PeopleTools/application upgrades and integration projects.

Functional / Domain Skills

• End-to-end HCM process expertise: Core HR, Payroll, Benefits, Time & Labor, Absence Management, Compensation, Position Management.
• FSCM process knowledge: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Billing, Purchasing, eProcurement, Asset Management, Project Costing.
• Business process mapping, requirement gathering, fit-gap analysis, and solution design across multiple modules.
• Statutory, regulatory, and compliance-driven configuration and impact assessment.

Technical Development Skills

• PeopleTools 8.5x/8.6x, Application Designer, PeopleCode, Application Engine, Application Packages.
• Component Interface, File Layout, Approval Workflow Engine (AWE), and Approval Framework.
• Fluid UI, Tiles, WorkCenters, Dashboards, Pivot Grids, and Related Content framework.
• Design review and code-quality governance across the development team.

Architecture & Integration

• Integration Broker design (service operations, messaging, routing, monitoring) and REST/SOAP web services.
• Integrations with third-party payroll providers, IAM/AD, banking, tax, and ERP/GL platforms.
• Middleware / Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), SSO, and data conversion / migration strategy.

Database & Performance

• Strong SQL and PL-SQL: stored procedures, query optimization, and indexing strategies.
• Performance tuning using trace files, App Engine logs, and Performance Monitor (PMU) analysis.

Upgrade & Lifecycle

• PeopleTools and application upgrades, PUM image adoption, and Change Assistant.
• Patching, retrofits, release readiness, and post-deployment support governance.

Delivery & Governance

• AMS / ITIL service management: incident, problem, change, and release management.
• SLA/KPI reporting, RCA, backlog governance, estimation, and risk management.
• Agile / Scrum delivery and onsite-offshore coordination.

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Onsite-offshore team leadership, mentoring, and quality assurance reviews.
• Stakeholder management, executive / steering-committee communication, and presentation skills.
• Client-facing consulting and workshop facilitation.

Preferred / Good-to-Have

• Cloud hosting (OCI / AWS / Azure) and PeopleSoft security architecture.
• ELK / OpenSearch, and DevOps / CI-CD practices.