Senior PeopleSoft HCM Consultant

Experience level: mid senior level.

About You

You are a senior-level PeopleSoft HCM Consultant with strong technical and functional expertise, capable of analyzing complex enterprise environments and identifying opportunities to optimize and automate HCM processes.

You bring a consultative and advisory mindset, combining deep PeopleSoft knowledge with strong analytical and communication skills. You are comfortable working independently, navigating ambiguity, documenting technical solutions, and presenting recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.

You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.

• Senior-level experience as a PeopleSoft HCM Consultant with strong hands-on technical and functional expertise.

• Proven experience working with PeopleSoft HCM implementations in complex enterprise environments.

• Strong functional knowledge of PeopleSoft Payroll, Health & Welfare, and Benefits modules.

• Strong hands-on experience with PeopleTools.

• Proven experience designing and implementing automation within PeopleSoft environments.

• Ability to assess existing PeopleSoft business processes and identify automation opportunities using native PeopleSoft capabilities.

• Experience defining automation requirements and estimating process complexity and implementation effort.

• Strong technical documentation skills, including automation plans, process approaches, timelines, and tooling recommendations.

• Experience preparing technical documentation for formal IT governance or technical review processes.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently in complex and ambiguous environments.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to present and defend technical recommendations.

• Experience working in consulting, advisory, or client-facing environments.

• Fluent English proficiency.

Nice to Have

• PeopleSoft HCM and/or PeopleTools certification.

• Experience using AI or Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Claude, or similar tools for technical analysis, documentation, process optimization, or automation.

You Will Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities

• Review and analyze existing PeopleSoft HCM business processes.

• Identify and recommend automation strategies using native PeopleSoft functionality.

• Define automation requirements, approaches, dependencies, and complexity for HCM processes.

• Develop detailed automation plans covering scope, approach, timelines, tools, assumptions, and implementation considerations.

• Create clear and structured technical documentation to support review and decision-making processes.

• Establish repeatable documentation and automation planning approaches based on stakeholder feedback.

• Support the planning and prioritization of automation initiatives.

• Design and implement PeopleSoft configurations and custom solutions as implementation activities progress.

• Support testing, troubleshooting, defect resolution, and technical validation.

• Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to understand requirements and provide recommendations.

• Senior-level experience working with PeopleSoft HCM in complex enterprise environments.

• Strong functional knowledge of Payroll, Health & Welfare, and Benefits.

• Hands-on technical expertise with PeopleTools.

• Experience designing and implementing automation within PeopleSoft environments.

• Experience assessing HCM processes and defining technical automation solutions.

• Strong consulting, stakeholder management, and technical documentation skills.

• Fluent English proficiency.

About Us

We Are Engineered Different.

At Applaudo, talented people design, build, and scale meaningful, AI-powered solutions that create real business impact. As an AI-native organization, we collaborate across design, development, cloud, data, and artificial intelligence to turn ideas into scalable products that transform how companies operate, make decisions, and grow.

We are building a high-performance culture grounded in five values:  Empowering Excellence, Collaborative Teamwork, Unsolicited Respect, Consistent Transparency, and Efficient Communication . These define how we work, how we support one another, and how we hold ourselves accountable.

Applaudo is a place for people who want to learn fast, take ownership, and work alongside strong teams they are proud to belong to. Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally, investing in modern ways of working, and leading AI-native transformation at scale.