At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, we’re revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.
The Manager – Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) System will lead the engineering team responsible for the architecture, delivery, maintenance, and operational reliability of HCM integrations and related application capabilities. This role will own the HCM roadmap execution, including integrations, Visual Builder enhancements, workflow approval processes, security roles, engineering execution, production support, and all other team development activities while ensuring alignment with business priorities and the broader Oracle transformation.
Partnering closely with the Senior Integration Engineer – HCM Applications, business stakeholders, and external implementation partners, this leader will maintain continuity across existing HCM operations while delivering scalable solutions for future business needs. The ideal candidate combines strong people leadership with deep technical expertise, sound operational judgment, and experience managing complex enterprise transformations. Strong, clear communication is required for interacting with internal and external teams as well as leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Lead HCM integration engineers across HCM applications to deliver outstanding, innovative solutions.
- Strong technical skills and background to develop integrations, apply visual builder enhancements, understand/provision security roles, understand workflow notifications/approvals, in addition to other HCM activities.
- Own roadmap planning, prioritization, resource allocation, and delivery across BAU, existing HCM application maintenance, and transformation initiatives.
- Oversee integrations supporting recruiting, onboarding, benefits, payroll, core hr, learning, and performance management.
- Manage Visual Builder Studio enhancements to meet customer requirements.
- Partner with the Senior Integration Engineer to establish architectural direction and engineering standards across HCM and OIC development.
- Ensure consistent practices for design reviews, code quality, testing, deployments, monitoring, documentation, and change management.
- Own production support and serve as the primary management escalation point for critical HCM application and integration issues.
- Establish support coverage, on-call rotations, escalation paths, recovery procedures, and primary/secondary ownership for critical systems.
- Lead HCM integration delivery for the Oracle transformation, including testing, cutover readiness, and post-launch stabilization.
- Manage Deloitte and other implementation partners and vendors, ensuring clear accountability, delivery quality, and knowledge transfer.
- Partner with business stakeholders to manage requirements, dependencies, and competing priorities; communicate progress, risks, and resource needs to leadership.
- Ensure adherence to security, employee data privacy, access controls, SOX requirements, and change-management processes.
- Reduce key-person dependencies through cross-training, documentation, and succession and coverage planning.
- Work with internal and external partners to complete challenging projects, on time, and with scalable solutions.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- 15+ years of progressive experience in enterprise application engineering, HCM technology, or integrations, including 4+ years managing engineering teams.
- 8+ years of managerial experience managing combination of onshore/offshore resources
- Proven experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers and managing employees, contractors, and geographically distributed teams.
- Significant experience leading enterprise HCM integrations across benefits, payroll, retirement, equity administration, identity, and employee data management.
- Strong expertise in Oracle HCM Cloud OCI, OIC, Oracle HCM APIs, HCM Extracts, HDL/HSDL, and related integration technologies.
- Strong knowledge of REST/SOAP APIs, web services, middleware/iPaaS, SFTP/file-based integrations, batch processing, and event-driven integrations.
- Solid experience using pgp encryption/decryption capabilities.
- Strong understanding of server connectivity using ssh keys.
- Working knowledge of HCM security roles, areas of responsibility, workflows, Fast Formulas, value sets, RTF/XSLT templates, and Visual Builder Studio.
- Demonstrated ability to guide architecture, evaluate technical decisions, and establish scalable and maintainable engineering practices.
- Proven experience supporting business-critical production systems, including incident management, root-cause analysis, monitoring, and operational improvement.
- Experience balancing business as usual needs with large projects, major implementations, migrations, or transformation initiatives.
- Experience managing implementation partners and vendors, including delivery oversight, knowledge transfer, and transition to internal support.
- Strong understanding of data security, privacy, access controls, and handling of sensitive employee information.
- Experience partnering with HR/HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Security, and Enterprise Technology stakeholders.
- Experience with Oracle Fusion Financials a plus.
- Experience with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.x on an AIX platform would be beneficial.
- Excellent prioritization, communication, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical risks and delivery tradeoffs.
- Experience using Jira for SDLC, backlog management, sprint planning, and reporting. Experience leading daily standups when needed as well as sprint ceremonies.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience operating in a SOX-controlled enterprise environment and leading HCM platform transformations is a plus.
- Self motivated leader, looking to proactively identify and solve blockers.
Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $140,490-$156,100; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location. Minimum wage for the position will always be met.
Perks that You Need to Know About:
Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions). Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave; medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits; 401(k) plan; flexible spending accounts (FSAs); commuter program; life and disability insurance; Maven (a support system for new parents); Carrot (fertility benefits); UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network); Employee Assistance Program; and pet insurance.
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