Release and Cutover Manager, Oracle Cloud HCM

This is a remote position. Release and Cutover Manager, Oracle Cloud HCM Contract, six months. 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027. UK, remote based. Day rate and IR35 determination being confirmed. A major UK financial services organisation is running an optimisation programme across a live Oracle Cloud HCM estate. Payroll runs inside the same tenant, and the dependencies reach into finance systems, integrations, reporting platforms and downstream applications. They want one person to own the route to live end to end. What you would own The environment approach across development, SIT, UAT and production, and the cross-system plan that maps Oracle HCM environments to every connected application and interface. You decide what gets into a controlled environment and what does not, which means holding the gate against project change, business as usual change, regulatory change and vendor change at the same time. Integrated release planning and implementation planning. Cutover governance, rollback and contingency, and post-implementation validation. Retrofit governance, so configuration, code and integrations stay aligned across environments and releases. Alignment of Oracle's quarterly updates with the programme's own releases, payroll cut-offs and testing cycles. The contract window covers two mandatory Oracle updates and the March payroll year end, so the calendar is most of the job. You work alongside project managers, product owners, architects, test managers, service management