Applications Manager | Sunderland | Hybrid working (3 days in office)
We’re supporting a major UK organisation undergoing significant transformation, including a large-scale migration from Oracle E‑Business Suite to Oracle Fusion ERP. They are looking for an Applications Manager who can bring strong leadership, deep applications expertise, and stability across a complex, fast‑moving environment. This Applications Manager will oversee a diverse enterprise applications estate spanning Finance, HR, Operations and Customer/Commercial domains.
What you’ll be doing
* Leading and developing a multi‑disciplinary team across applications and platforms.
* Overseeing the performance, reliability, and security of a wide range of enterprise applications.
* Acting as the senior Applications Manager for a complex landscape.
* Supporting major programmes such as ERP migrations (including EBS → Fusion).
* Driving high standards across incident, problem, change and release processes.
* Overseeing integrations, data flows, upgrades, patching and platform lifecycle management.
* Working closely with Product, Architecture, and wider IT teams to deliver meaningful business change.
What we’re looking for
* Strong experience as an Applications Manager within a complex environment.
* Proven track record supporting ERP platforms (Oracle EBS, Fusion, or similar).
* Experience working on large‑scale migrations or transformation programmes.
* Exposure to integrations, APIs, automation, and modern engineering practices.
* Knowledge of underpinning Tech Services (Azure/AWS) is beneficial but not essential.
* Confident stakeholder engagement and the ability to simplify technical issues.
* Experience leading and developing application support or platform engineering teams.
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