Workday Solutions Lead (Job ID: 2025-3584)

Overview

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The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.  

  

We bring together leading experts in government and academia from all over the world, rooted in open-minded inquiry and representing diverse points of view, who provide the highest quality research, policy recommendations, and analysis. Research topics cover a full range of public policy issues in economics, foreign policy, development, governance and metropolitan policy. 

  

With fair and transparent business practices, clear communication, mutual respect, and a collaborative atmosphere that offers both professional and personal development opportunities, Brookings offers an inclusive and welcoming workplace that values the efforts of all contributors. 

 

Brookings Technology Services provides a variety of services and support to Brookings employees, whether resident or non-resident, including:

• Providing support for Brookings-issued hardware, software, and phones
• Managing a pool of loaner equipment including laptops, tablets, and mobile phones
• Providing and supporting standard office and email software in addition to a variety of useful business tools and software
• Setup of user accounts and providing access (in-house and remotely) to documents, software and email

Position Location: This position is hybrid. Hybrid positions combine regular in-person presence at our Washington, DC office with the option of at least two days of remote work each week.

Responsibilities

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The Workday Solutions Lead will be directly responsible for designing, delivering, and supporting Workday solutions across Brookings—with a focus on configuring modules and developing integrations—and ensuring that the Workday platform delivers a secure and exceptional experience for Brookings staff. The Workday Solutions Lead will serve as a key member of the overall Workday Team, working closely with the Brookings Workday leader, Workday partners, BTech staff, and other stakeholders to ensure that Workday related development, configuration, and administration is executed to support governance policies and Workday roadmap initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess excellent Workday technical skills, particularly around configuring Workday modules, developing and managing integrations; project management and business analysis skills; and the ability to work effectively with multiple groups of stakeholders, both internal and external.

 

Workday Configuration and Development (60%)

• Work closely with Brookings Workday leadership, Workday partners, Brookings Finance and HR staff, BTech staff, and third-party vendors on full configuration and development life cycle for Workday (iterative rounds of requirements, design, build, test, and deploy). 

• Configure workday modules like HCM, Payroll, and Financials to meet the specific needs of the organization.

• Develop and manage integrations between Workday and other systems using tools like Workday Studio, EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder), Workday Web Services, custom solutions.

• Create custom reports and dashboards to provide insights and analytics for business users.

• Ensure data security and compliance by configuring security groups and roles.

• Participate in business requirements and design meetings and recommend and provide input on proposed system solutions. Work closely with Finance and HR technical and functional leads to confirm system designs meet stated business requirements.

• Conduct unit testing, system testing, and performance testing.

• Support Finance and HR leads in troubleshooting issues during user acceptance testing (UAT) and other types of end-to-end testing.

• Create and maintain detailed technical documentation to support design and ongoing maintenance of solutions.

• Coordinate closely with and support Finance and HR leads by performing project management functions including, but not limited to, providing level of effort estimates and target dates for technical deliverables; developing and adjusting technical plans, tasks, and overall workload to meet deadlines; reporting on project status; and raising/addressing issues and risks that may impact timelines, budgets, and quality.

• Serve as main point of contact with third-party vendors to coordinate all technical work.

• Work closely with Finance and HR technical and functional leads to continually ass