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Technical Application Manager

IBM

IT

California City, CA, USA

Posted on Apr 2, 2026

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

The PeopleSoft Payroll Technical Application Manager leads the technical management, maintenance, and enhancement of a large-scale PeopleSoft-based Payroll solution. This role demands deep expertise in Oracle/PeopleSoft HCM applications combined with strong leadership, analytical, and communication skills to guide a cross-functional team. The position is critical to ensuring system stability, compliance, and continuous improvement while driving technical excellence across the platform.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

*Must reside in Canada, and be eligible for security clearance (minimum: Reliability Clearance).

*Minimum 7–10 years of progressive experience with PeopleSoft HCM Applications, including hands-on knowledge of Payroll, General Ledger, Time and Labor and related modules.

*Must have Technical or functional leadership experience, preferably within AMS environments.

*Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

*Candidate should have experience managing and supporting escalation calls.

*Coordinate and support application changes, patches, migrations, and maintenance activities.

*Collaborate closely with functional analysts, business stakeholders, and architects to resolve escalations and ensure timely issue resolution.

*Serve as a primary point of contact for application incidents, ensuring clear communication and proactive risk management.

*Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

*Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical information to non-technical audiences.

*Effective leadership, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.

Preferred technical and professional experience

*Experience with Canadian payroll implementations.

*Proven experience in several completed software development life cycles.

*Project Management experience.

*Bilingual - Speaks French & English

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

Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship. For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

The salary range for the position is based on a full-time schedule. Your ultimate salary within this range may vary depending on your job-related skills and experience for this position.

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