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Technology Practice

Michael Baker International's Technology Practice partners with organizations to design, build, and scale innovative digital solutions that drive measurable business impact. The practice brings together product strategists, engineers, architects, data experts, and transformation leaders to solve complex challenges across cloud, data, AI, cybersecurity, enterprise platforms, and modern application development. It does more than implement technology; it translates business strategy into scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions. Technology teams work at the intersection of innovation and execution, helping clients modernize legacy systems, accelerate digital transformation, and unlock the full value of emerging technologies. The practice fosters a collaborative, growth-oriented environment where technologists are empowered to solve meaningful problems, continuously learn, and deliver high-impact outcomes.

What We're Looking For

Michael Baker International is seeking a Program Manager, ERP Transformation to join its Technology Practice in a Remote, United States capacity. In this senior-level role, you will lead the planning, execution, governance, and value realization of a complex Oracle Fusion ERP transformation, aligning business, IT, implementation partners, and executive stakeholders around integrated delivery, organizational readiness, and measurable modernization outcomes. This role is designed for a leader who can drive enterprise-scale program performance while maintaining discipline across scope, schedule, quality, risk, and stakeholder engagement.

• Remote in US. 
• Travel domestically as needed. 
• This position requires candidates to be U.S. Citizens or Lawful Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) due to federal contract requirements.

What You'll Do

• Lead the end-to-end Oracle Fusion ERP transformation program, delivering integrated scope, schedule, quality, and readiness outcomes from discovery through transition to support.
• Drive program governance through stage gates, RAID management, dependency tracking, decision logs, and executive reporting that enables timely decisions and disciplined delivery.
• Oversee the integrated master schedule, critical path, milestone attainment, and phase-entry and phase-exit criteria to keep the program aligned to business objectives.
• Govern program-level scope, change control, and requirements traceability to protect delivery integrity and prevent unmanaged scope growth.
• Direct Systems Integrator and vendor performance, ensuring deliverable quality, milestone acceptance, SOW alignment, and accountability to contractual commitments.
• Ensure testing, data migration, integration, and cutover activities achieve go-live readiness through structured planning, defect management, validation, and mock cutovers.
• Strengthen executive and steering committee alignment through clear dashboards, readiness scorecards, health reporting, and risk-based escalation.
• Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders across business, IT, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data governance, and compliance to support enterprise-ready solution decisions.
• Develop and drive organizational readiness, hypercare governance, and transition-to-support planning that improves adoption, continuity, and long-term value realization.
• Identify and advance AI, automation, analytics, and process modernization opportunities within the Oracle ecosystem to improve efficiency and business performance.

What You Need to Succeed

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business, Finance, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of program or project management experience.
• Minimum 7 years leading large ERP implementations or enterprise transformation programs.
• Experience with Oracle Fusion and at least 3 full implementations.
• Experience leading ERP programs through governance, testing, deployment, cutover, go-live, and transition to support.
• Experience managing Systems Integrators, vendor performance, SOW alignment, and executive stakeholders.
• Deep knowledge of Oracle Fusion ERP implementation lifecycles and PMO governance models.
• Strong capabilities in RAID management, change control, stage gates, testing governance, data migration, and cutover readiness.
• Ability to lead matrixed teams, communicate complex concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders, and facilitate executive decision-making.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational readiness skills, with the ability to travel domestically as needed.

Preferred:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification.
• Oracle Fusion Cloud experience across Financials, PPM, Procurement, HCM, EPM, integrations, reporting, and security design.
• Experience in professional services, engineering, or construction environments and with AI-enabled business transformation and advanced analytics.

Compensation

The approximate compensation range for this position is $124,000 to $165,000. This compensation range is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation is dependent upon factors such as education, qualifications, experience, skillset, and physical work location.

Why Choose Us

• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• 401 (k) Retirement Plan
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability
• Professional and personal development
• Generous paid time off
• Commuter and wellness benefits

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Michael Baker International, a leading provider of engineering and consulting services, including design, planning, architectural, environmental, construction and program management, has been solving some of the world's most complex infrastructure challenges for more than 85 years with a legacy of expertise, experience, innovation and integrity.
Based in Pittsburgh and with over 100 offices nationwide, we partner with clients on everything from roads, bridges, tunnels, mass transit, and airports, to water treatment plants, arctic oil pipelines, environmental restoration and specialized overseas construction. We serve as a trusted adviser to the communities we serve, making them safer, more accessible, more sustainable and more prosperous.
We provide visionary leadership in facilitating transformational change for our clients. Our work delivers differentiating innovations and dedicated experts who challenge the status quo and share a world of diverse experience and an impassioned entrepreneurial spirit. We deliver quality of life.
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