Deployment Lead – Global ERP Transformation, Finance & Records
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Salt Lake City • Utah • United States
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About the role
- Works with the Delivery Lead, PMO, and cross workstream leads to define end-to-end deployment strategy, schedule, and readiness criteria across releases.
- Defines and maintains deployment of work plans, cutover activities, milestones, and required personnel.
- Manages cross release and cross unit dependencies, deployment risks, and decision points.
- Coordinates deployment activities across business functions and ensures deployment planning aligns with enterprise calendars, regulatory constraints, and business readiness milestones.
- Provides deployment impact input into release of sequencing and scope of decisions.
- Leads objective deployment readiness assessments across: Application and configuration readiness, Data and integration readiness, Security, controls, and compliance readiness, Training and organizational adoption readiness
- Ensures executive sponsor awareness and commitment prior to go live.
- Partners with Change Management and Training leads to validate readiness assumptions and mitigate adoption risk.
- Works closely with the Test Lead to monitor system, integration, and user acceptance test outcomes.
- Validates adherence to quality management plans, release governance standards, and audit expectations.
- Defines and enforces go/no-go criteria based on pre-defined checklists and metrics; leads business readiness checkpoints and prepares for go/no-go decisions.
- Supports cutover planning, including business shutdown windows, freeze periods, and sequencing business activities.
- Coordinates post go live (hypercare) support activities across business, IT, and vendors, including triage, defect prioritization, and stabilization support.
- Defines stabilization entry/exit criteria and transition to steady-state support.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Project Management, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in deployment management, release management, or large‑scale enterprise system implementations.
- Demonstrated experience using structured ERP deployment methodologies
- Proven track record coordinating cross functional, multi-workstream teams.
- Strong planning, risk management, and dependency management skills.
- Excellent communication, planning, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to communicate deployment readiness and risk clearly to executive audiences.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP (strongly preferred)
- Experience supporting finance or regulated environments (controls, audit, compliance).
- Familiarity with organizational change management frameworks
- Experience with multi-‑release or phased ERP deployments rather than single big-bang go-‑lives.
Benefits
- Must be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and currently temple worthy.
- Please note that this job posting may close at any time without prior notice.
- Find out more about the many benefits of Church Employment at https://careers.churchofjesuschrist.org.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
deployment managementrelease managementERP deployment methodologiesrisk managementdependency managementplanningchange management frameworksmulti-release deploymentsOracle Fusion Cloud ERPquality management
Soft Skills
communicationstakeholder managementplanningcoordinationleadershiporganizational adoptionrisk mitigationexecutive communicationteam collaborationassessment
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Business AdministrationBachelor's degree in Information TechnologyBachelor's degree in Project Management