Akamai Technologies

HR Technology Programs & Digital Transformation Leader – Contract

Akamai Technologies

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudOracle

About the role

  • Lead enterprise-scale HR technology programs ensuring alignment to business priorities, risk mitigation, and value realization
  • Act as a senior program leader for HR digital transformation initiatives, including roadmap development, sequencing, dependency management, and executive communications
  • Partner closely with HR, IT and external vendors to coordinate delivery across complex, interdependent workstreams
  • Provide strategic oversight of Oracle Cloud HCM initiatives, with specific focus on Time & Labor and Absence Management (experience preferred)
  • Proactively surface risks, issues, and trade-offs, offering clear recommendations and solution paths
  • Translate business and HR needs into clear program plans, milestones, and success measures
  • Operate as a connector and integrator, ensuring consistency, governance, and alignment across regions and functions
  • Bring a continuous-improvement mindset, identifying opportunities to enhance delivery models, governance, and ways of working
  • Support future team growth and capability building as the function evolves

Requirements

  • Have proven experience in senior-level program or portfolio management, ideally within HR Technology, Digital Transformation, or Enterprise Systems
  • Possess solid working knowledge of Oracle Cloud HCM
  • Have demonstrated success operating in a global, matrixed environment, influencing outcomes without formal authority
  • Possess exceptional ability to lead through complexity, ambiguity, and change
  • Have a solid executive presence with the confidence to challenge, influence, and advise senior leaders
  • Be highly analytical and solution-oriented, with the ability to quickly assess issues and drive pragmatic outcomes
  • Have excellent communication skills; able to translate complex topics into clear, actionable insights
  • Be comfortable moving between strategic thinking and detailed execution
  • Have prior experience supporting large-scale HR transformations or cloud migrations
  • Have background working with external implementation partners or system integrators
  • Have familiarity with HR operating models, shared services, or global governance structures
Benefits
  • This is a 12-month contract with the possibility of converting to a full-time permanent position at Akamai

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
program managementportfolio managementOracle Cloud HCMdigital transformationHR technologycloud migrationsrisk mitigationdependency managementgovernancecontinuous improvement
Soft skills
executive presenceanalytical skillscommunication skillsinfluencingproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingadaptabilityleadershipcollaborationchange management