IT Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Own the Technical Delivery Plan and Governance
• Develop and maintain the end-to-end technical delivery plan, aligned with the programme plan, Magnisol methodology and Dayforce delivery approach.
• Coordinate technical delivery across architecture, environments, infrastructure, security, integrations, testing, deployment and service transition.
• Own governance for technical deliverables, risks, dependencies, issues, assumptions, decisions and change requests.
• Provide clear reporting on technical progress, readiness, risks, resources and delivery status to programme governance forums.
• Drive Integrations from Design Through Deployment
• Own the end-to-end delivery of all inbound and outbound Dayforce integrations, covering requirements, design, build, testing, deployment and support readiness.
• Coordinate internal teams, Magnisol, Dayforce and third-party vendors to agree designs, specifications, mappings, dependencies and delivery responsibilities.
• Ensure technical designs and integration documentation are reviewed, approved and maintained in line with Weir architecture, security and governance standards.
• Manage integration risks, defects, changes and readiness evidence through to deployment and sign-off.
• Coordinate Testing, Cutover and Go-Live Readiness
• Coordinate technical support and resource readiness across system integration testing, Payroll parallel testing, user acceptance testing, operational readiness testing and production verification.
• Ensure technical and integration defects are prioritised, resolved, retested and closed, with readiness clearly reported.
• Lead technical cutover planning, including deployment runbooks, rehearsals, rollback plans, checkpoints and go/no-go evidence.
• Coordinate technical deployment, go-live and hypercare activities across internal teams and suppliers.
• Establish the Support Model and Lead the Transition into BAU
• Define and implement the Dayforce technical support model, including ownership, escalation paths and service management processes.
• Coordinate operational readiness, knowledge transfer and handover into business-as-usual support teams.
• Ensure support documentation, technical runbooks, knowledge articles and readiness checklists are complete and approved before handover.
• Lead service transition through hypercare to agreed operational acceptance and closure.
  
  

Essential

Job Knowledge, Education & Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering technical projects within a complex enterprise or SaaS environment.
• Strong experience managing end-to-end integration delivery, from requirements and design through build, testing, deployment and support.
• Strong stakeholder and vendor management skills, with the ability to coordinate delivery, manage dependencies and resolve issues across business, IT and supplier teams.
• Hands-on experience coordinating testing, cutover, go-live activities and service transition into business-as-usual support.
  
  

Tools & Prior Experience

• Essential experience working with middleware platforms and integration technologies, ideally MuleSoft, together with APIs, file-based integrations, single sign-on solutions and complex enterprise application landscapes.
• Experience working with Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, SharePoint Microsoft Project, Microsoft 365 or equivalent tools.
• Experience supporting system integration testing, deployment activities, cutover execution and operational readiness.
• Experience defining support models, service transition frameworks and operational support arrangements.
  
  

Desirable

• Experience delivering Dayforce, Workday, Payroll, HRIS, Time & Attendance or Finance system enterprise application implementations; experience with Dayforce, Workday, Payroll, HRIS, Time & Attendance or Finance systems is advantageous but not essential.
• Experience working within global Payroll transformation programmes.
• Understanding of Payroll operations, Payroll integrations, statutory reporting, finance interfaces and managed service operating models.
• Project management, service management or technical certification such as PRINCE2, PMP, ITIL, Agile, Azure or equivalent.
  
  

Location

Remote – Must be able to work in the Australia timezone

Reporting Line

Reports to the Head of Global Payroll Services, with day-to-day alignment to the Project Manager and programme delivery governance.