Workday Sr. Solutions Architect
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Workday Sr Solutions Architect
End to End Configuration + HCM, Recruiting, Security, Payroll
About the Role:
The Workday Sr Solutions Architect will be a key member of the HR Technology and Analytics team, responsible for ensuring that our HRIS systems meet the strategic and operational needs of the organization and partner with the Director, HR Technology to develop and maintain the HR Technology roadmap. The Sr Solutions Architect will oversee end to end configuration, while supporting HCM, Recruiting, Security, and Payroll themselves. In this role, you will drive continuous improvement by recognizing the needs of HR and the business, identifying gaps and potential fits, and managing the creative solutioning and delivery. A successful solutions architect will champion collaboration across the HR Technology team to identify and consider cross functional impacts to any design or configuration improvement.
The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of Workday’s cross functional complexities, security, configurations, and best practices, coupled with strong analytical skills and the ability to translate business requirements into effective system solutions.
What You Get To Do Every Day:
- As a Workday expert, provide support to Workday functional owners and end users by diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving complex (Tier 2 escalation) system issues and problem areas
- Turn business requirements into technical requirements and proposed Workday solutions while treating every challenge as an opportunity for improvement and efficiency
- Evaluate and drive deployment of feature releases and functionality to identify opportunities to improve and optimize the use Workday, ensuring HR and business requirements are met (serve as subject matter expert on current and upcoming Workday capabilities)
- Develop long term, scalable business process design enhancements, reports, and dashboards that will advance Workday adoption and ease of use
- Deploy creative solutioning to accommodate for gaps between business needs and system capabilities
- Develop and coach the junior members of the HR Technology team.
- Partner with HR and IT leaders to seek out opportunities for continuous improvement and develop long term scalable solutions that help improve HR processes and streamline user experience by rethinking existing configurations and deploying new features
- Partner with IT in the implementation and management of integrations with Workday
- Partner with Workday Support Team to ensure up-to-date documentation of system functions, processes and capabilities
- Act as an active member for the Workday community - staying ahead of Workday updates, fixes and resolutions and make recommendations for continuous improvement
Workday HCM + Recruiting
- Responsible for the ongoing design, deployment, and maintenance of Workday HCM business process Workflows, job application templates, questionnaires, etc that impact Pre-Hire to Retire
Workday Payroll
- Configure and maintain Workday Payroll processes, including payroll calculations, tax configurations, deductions, and earnings codes
- Create ad-hoc reports and integrations needed in support of on-going payroll processing
- Lead the design, configuration, and implementation of Workday Payroll enhancements and solutions,
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