Application Support Lead – HR & UK Payroll - EBS

About Us

Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group delivering complex, high‐impact projects across the globe. Our Business Systems and IT teams enable reliable, compliant, and effective operations by supporting critical enterprise applications. We provide a collaborative and structured environment with opportunities to lead, innovate, and support systems that underpin core business functions.

About the Role

The Application Support Lead – HR & Payroll is responsible for leading the support, stability, and continuous improvement of critical HR and Payroll applications across the organisation. The role provides technical leadership, subject‐matter expertise, and hands‐on support, while line‐managing and mentoring a team of application analysts. This position works closely with HR, Payroll, IT, and third‐party partners to ensure applications operate reliably, compliantly, and in line with service expectations.

Qualifications and Experience




- Strong experience leading or acting as senior escalation point within an application support function
- Proven background supporting Oracle HR & Payroll systems (Oracle E‐Business Suite, ideally R12)
- Demonstrated line management experience, including coaching, workload management, and performance oversight
- Experience coordinating payroll cycles, statutory updates, patches, and time‐critical deliveries
- Ability to work closely with business stakeholders and translate operational needs into system solutions

Technical Knowledge and Expertise
- Strong understanding of HR & Payroll business processes and system dependencies
- Hands‐on experience supporting Oracle HR, Payroll, OTL, SSHR, and related modules
- Proven experience with:
- Oracle Forms customisation
- Oracle Reports (debugging parameters, triggers, layouts)
- PL/SQL‐based logic, concurrent programs, fast formulas, flexfields, and workflows
- Ability to perform data investigation and troubleshootin

📌 Application Support Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 Balfour Beatty India
📍 Bengaluru