Associate Director, ERP Application Developer (Payroll & UKG) - Remote

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What will you be doing in this role? The Associate Director, Application Development – Payroll & UKG provides technology and product delivery leadership for enterprise Payroll and Workforce Management, with primary accountability for Oracle Fusion Cloud Payroll and UKG platforms. Working in partnership with Payroll, HR, Finance, and operational leaders, this role helps lead a product-oriented operating model in which multidisciplinary teams are organized around workforce capabilities, experiences, and measurable business outcomes rather than individual applications or projects. The Associate Director is accountable for technology strategy, platform stewardship, delivery execution, availability and capability of the technical resources needed to design, configure, integrate, test, deploy, and support the technology, operational reliability, and continuous improvement across Payroll and Workforce Management. Given the business-critical nature of these capabilities, this leader maintains rigorous operational governance while enabling persistent product teams to continuously improve business outcomes.

Product & Platform Strategy

• Partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, and operational leaders to define product strategies, roadmaps, priorities, and measurable outcomes for Payroll and Workforce Management.
• Translate business strategy, workforce needs, regulatory requirements, and user needs into sustainable technology capabilities.
• Establish persistent product roadmaps and backlogs that balance strategic transformation, optimization, regulatory requirements, technical health, and operational stability.
• Serve as the technology steward for Oracle Fusion Payroll and UKG, maximizing capabilities available through strategic platforms before introducing additional technologies or custom solutions.
• Evaluate Oracle- and UKG-delivered capabilities, roadmaps, configuration, extensibility, AI, automation, analytics, and agent-based capabilities before identifying residual capability gaps requiring other solutions.
• Ensure product and platform decisions align with enterprise architecture, ERP, Data & AI, cybersecurity, integration, and technology strategies.

Integrated Product Leadership

• Co-lead multidisciplinary Payroll and Workforce Management product teams with business/product leadership, bringing together functional, technical, integration, data, architecture, cybersecurity, change, and operational expertise.
• Establish clear accountability across product management, technology delivery, platform ownership, business process ownership, and operational support.
• Enable persistent teams to move from problem identification through discovery, design, delivery, adoption, measurement, and continuous optimization.
• Manage technology capacity across product teams based on enterprise priorities, roadmaps, dependencies, operational risk, and business value.
• Establish product governance and delivery practices that enable timely decision-making while maintaining appropriate controls for payroll and workforce-management processes.

Product Delivery & Operational Excellence

• Lead continuous delivery across new capabilities, platform releases, integrations, optimization, technical debt, regulatory changes, and production support.
• Maintain rigorous controls for testing, release readiness, change management, issue resolution, production support, and business continuity.
• Ensure end-to-end coordination across Oracle HCM, Payroll, UKG, Finance, identity/access, integrations, reporting, and enterprise data platforms.
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