Description

Job Summary:

The IC-5 application engineer will play a critical role in a small team, delivering complex business capabilities using a portfolio of technology for HR. This role is responsible for driving the creation of scalable, integrated solution blueprints and quick prototypes that support key HR functions. The application engineer will lead the evaluation of new technologies, identify opportunities to simplify the ecosystem, and champion the adoption of native capabilities from enterprise licensed products. The ideal candidate is both technically skilled and strategically minded, with a passion for continuous innovation and simplification.

This position sits within the HR Platforms & Delivery Technology (HRPDT) organization, which oversees the design, delivery, and sustainment of Kaiser Permanente-s HR systems and platforms. Our team partners with product owners, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to ensure that our technology strategy aligns with business priorities. The position will contribute to critical initiatives including Oracle and Salesforce product extensibility, embedded AI enabled transformation, and long-term HR technology simplification. Our team values innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to scalable, secure, and user-centered design.

This senior level individual contributor is primarily responsible for serving as the lead technical expert on project teams, contributing to technical direction for varying technical solutions, and ensuring IT systems are effectively utilized.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Develops requirements, or leads a team of IT consultants in the development of requirements for complex or specialized process or system solutions which may span multiple business domains by partnering with stakeholders and appropriate IT teams (for example, Solutions Delivery, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture).
• Leverages multiple business requirements gathering methodologies to identify business, functional, and non-functional requirements (for example, SMART) across the enterprise.
• Leads and oversees the development and documentation of comprehensive business cases to assess the costs, benefits, ROI, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of complex solution proposals.
• Provides insight, guidance, and recommendations throughout the evolution of applications, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state by maintaining and leveraging a comprehensive understanding of how current processes impact business operations across the enterprise.
• Maps current state against future state processes.
• Defines the impact of requirements on upstream and downstream solution components.
• Provides insight and influence to senior management and business leaders on how to integrate requirements with current systems and business processes across the enterprise.
• Reviews, evaluates, and prioritizes value gaps and opportunities for process enhancements or efficiencies.
• Influences solution design by providing insight and consultation at design sessions with IT teams to help translate requirements into workable business solutions.
• Recommends and advocates for additional data and/or services needed to address key business issues related to process or solutions design.
• Participates in evaluating third-party vendors as directed.
• Drives continuous process improvement by leading the development, implementation, and maintenance of standardized tools, templates, and processes across the enterprise.
• Recommends and advocates for regional and national process improvements which align with sustainable best practices, and the strategic and tactical goals of the business.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, CIS or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in IT consulting, business analysis, or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Additional Requirements:

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7 years of experience designing and developing enterprise HR products, with hands-on in Oracle HCM Cloud modules (Core HR, Absence, Payroll, Benefits).
• Demonstrate good verbal and written communication with ability to develop and present high-impact solution blueprints, influence decision-makers, and guide product teams from concept to delivery.
• Strong understanding with building integrations, configuring agentic and embedded AI, data modeling, application extensibility frameworks and platform tooling.
• Self-driven and eager to learn and explore technology with business value context.

Primary Location: California,Pleasanton,Pleasanton Tech Cntr Building D

Additional Locations:

• Corona
• Lake Oswego
• Greenwood Village
• Atlanta
• Hyattsville
• Renton
• Honolulu

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard Worker Location: Flexible
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-IT-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: KPIT ADMIN - HRPDT INTEGRATION DV - 9601
Pay Range: $147200 - $190410 / year Kaiser Permanente is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not include the value of our total rewards package. Actual pay determined at offer will be based on years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills and geographic location along with a review of current employees in similar roles to ensure that pay equity is achieved and maintained across Kaiser Permanente. Travel: No Flexible: Work location is on-site at a KP location, with the flexibility to work from home. Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
Requisition #: 1393256

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