Director, HCM Technology and Data

Role Overview

Executive Leadership and Advisory

• Lead the HCM Data and Technology workstream for data, architecture, integration, testing, security, and technical readiness.
• Advise client executives, HR leaders, technology stakeholders, and program leadership.
• Develop integrated data and technology strategies aligned with business and transformation objectives.
• Establish governance, delivery plans, risk management, quality controls, and executive reporting.
• Lead, mentor, and develop architects, consultants, analysts, and technical specialists.

Data Strategy and Governance

• Direct HCM data migration and governance across workforce, organizational, learning, position, and employee data domains.
• Oversee profiling, cleansing, transformation, validation, reconciliation, migration readiness, and deployment activities.
• Establish data ownership, stewardship, quality standards, governance processes, and long-term operating models.
• Advise on retention, archival, remediation, rationalization, and authoritative data-source strategies.

Architecture and Integration

• Provide executive oversight of HCM data architecture, integration strategy, and enterprise interoperability.
• Direct integrations among HCM platforms, payroll, finance, identity management, recruiting, learning, and reporting systems.
• Establish scalable architecture patterns for APIs, middleware, cloud integrations, ETL, and real-time data exchange.
• Lead architecture reviews and address security, privacy, scalability, performance, and operational support requirements.

Testing, Security, and Deployment

• Oversee testing, security validation, deployment readiness, and production cutover activities.
• Ensure compliance with cybersecurity, privacy, identity management, and data-protection requirements.
• Direct deployment, rollback, hypercare, stabilization, knowledge transfer, and transition-to-operations activities.
• Monitor program health, technical risks, defects, data quality issues, and readiness indicators.

Practice Leadership and Growth

• Contribute to business development, solution development, thought leadership, practice growth, recruiting, and client relationship management.
• Support proposals, technical strategy development, and executive presentations for future HCM transformation opportunities.

Required Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal or DoD Public Trust.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Engineering, HRIS, or a related field.
• At least ten years of relevant technology, data, enterprise systems, HR technology, or digital transformation consulting experience.
• At least five years leading complex HCM, ERP, HRIS, data migration, or enterprise integration programs.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams and managing senior client relationships.
• Experience with enterprise data migration, governance, profiling, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and cutover.
• Experience integrating enterprise platforms and working with APIs, middleware, ETL, file-based, batch, and real-time integration patterns.
• Experience directing testing, deployment readiness, technical risk management, operational transition, and executive recommendations.
• Experience supporting federal government or similarly complex public-sector organizations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant technology, data, engineering, HRIS, or related field.
• Knowledge of data security, privacy, role-based access, identity management, and system accreditation.
• Experience with Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, PeopleSoft, cloud data platforms, or cloud integration platforms.
• PMP, CDMP, enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, or HCM platform certification.
• Experience with federal HCM, HRIT, shared services, ERP, or enterprise HR modernization programs.
• Experience leading quality assurance, governance, workforce planning, staff development, business development, proposals, or solution development.

Benefits

• Benefits include medical, prescription, dental and vision insurance, paid holidays, retirement savings, leave programs, disability coverage, tuition reimbursement, learning opportunities, and other employee support programs.

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