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Functional Consultant Lead

IBM

Posted on Dec 5, 2025

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Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio

Your role and responsibilities

We are seeking a highly skilled Enterprise Applications Functional Lead to oversee, enhance, and support our core business platforms including Oracle, Workday. This role serves as the strategic and technical lead for application development, integrations, and business functionality across various client-facing systems. The ideal candidate brings a strong blend of Functional expertise, technical understanding, system analysis, New technology feature development and strong project management.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Expertise

Lead the end-to-end support, configuration, and optimization of Oracle and Workday application environments.
Strong knowledge and experience working on various M&A projects
Serve as the primary technical SME for cross-platform issues, integrations, and performance enhancements.
Guide the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and reliable system architecture across enterprise applications.
Act as a techno-functional liaison between business teams, IT, and external partners to ensure system capability aligns with functional requirements.
Analyze business processes and recommend improvements leveraging Oracle and Workday features and best practices.
Support configuration, testing, troubleshooting, and release management activities for HR, finance, and operational modules.
Manage and optimize integrations between Oracle, Workday, and other client systems.
Ensure data integrity, access controls, and compliance with internal governance policies.

Leadership & Collaboration

Lead a small team of analysts/developers providing direction, coaching, and technical mentorship.
Conduct root-cause analysis sessions, technical reviews, and performance assessments.
Partner with business stakeholders, application owners, and infrastructure teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
Manage vendors and coordinate activities for upgrades, patches, integrations, and system releases.

This job can be performed from anywhere in the US.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

12+ years of experience in enterprise application development, support and Functional leadership roles.
Deep expertise in:

Oracle Applications (ERP / HCM / Financials or relevant modules)
Workday (HCM, Finance, Integrations, Reporting)
Strong experience in HR, Payroll, Benefits integrations
Functional experience and process configuration knowledge in HR module of workday
M&A Experience and handled at least 2-3 large acquisition/divestiture projects

Strong techno-functional understanding of business processes across HR Function
Basic knowledge with integrations (REST, SOAP, APIs, middleware), data flows, and troubleshooting complex application issues.
Strong SQL\PLSQL expertise with analytical level skillset
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Demonstrated experience managing stakeholders and supporting client-facing systems in a fast-paced environment.
Workday HCM Certifications.
Experience leading cross-functional initiatives or enterprise transformation programs.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.