Lead Business Systems Analyst

What You'll Do

You will be a senior technical leader responsible for designing scalable Workday solutions, with a primary focus on Core HCM and Talent & Performance. You will translate complex needs into efficient, user-centric system solutions and lead end-to-end solution design and strategy.

You will partner with HR, Total Rewards, Payroll, and IT to deliver programs that use Workday capabilities to support evolving business and people strategies.

Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Systems, you will be an individual contributor, combining technical leadership, collaboration, hands-on solution design, and techno-functional expertise.

This is a full-time, remote position with Avalara, open to candidates based in the United States.

How You will Improve Avalara

• Team Impact: Raises the capability of the People Technology function by introducing scalable system design, improving configuration quality, and mentoring others to operate at a higher technical standard.
• Growth: Ensure faster, more accurate compensation, performance, and talent decisions by reducing manual processes, improving data integrity, and promoting automation into core workflows.
• Customer (Employee) Impact: Improves employee and manager experience by simplifying processes, increasing transparency in rewards and performance, and delivering reliable, intuitive Workday solutions.

By strengthening the foundation of People Technology, this role directly improves execution thoughtfulness and operational scale across the organization.

Required Qualifications

• B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience in HRIS, People Technology, or enterprise systems roles
• 5+ years of hands-on Workday configuration experience
• Demonstrated expertise in Workday Compensation, Talent, Performance, and Core HCM
• Experience analyzing complex business problems and delivering scalable system solutions
• Projects and influence team members
• Experience with end-to-end HR processes, data structures, and system integrations

Bar Raiser Expectations

• Raise the standard of system design and: Deliver scalable, high-quality Workday solutions and improve how decisions are made through data, and clear tradeoff analysis.
• Create accountability and measurable outcomes: Hold self and partners to required standards ensuring delivery of outcomes that improve efficiency, data accuracy, and user experience.
• Simplifies and scales operations: Reduces complexity in processes, standardizing and automating to improve maintainability and scalability.
• Improve team capability and long-term impact: Mentors others, challenge assumptions, and leave systems, and team performance stronger than they were before.

AI Bar Raiser Expectations

• Apply AI to accelerate system delivery: Use AI to improve requirements gathering, solution design, testing, and documentation, reducing delivery timelines while maintaining high quality.
• Create data-driven insights: Uses AI to analyze Workday and HR data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities that improve outcomes.
• Automate and scale operations: Implement AI-driven automation across testing, data validation, reporting, and workflows to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and improve scalability.
• Create measurable and responsible AI impact: Identifies high-value AI use cases, measure outcomes, ensure secure and compliant usage, and elevates team adoption of AI best practices.

What Your Responsibilities Will Be

Responsibilities

• Build Workday solution design for Total Rewards and HCM: Deliver scalable, maintainable system configurations across Performance, Talent, Compensation, and Core HCM that reduce complexity and ensure global consistency.
• Translate complex business problems into system solutions: Identify gaps, inefficiencies, and risks in current processes and implement automated solutions that improve speed, accuracy, and scalability.
• Lead projects: Guide large-scale enhancements and programs across HR, Payroll, Finance, and IT, ensuring agreement, execution quality, and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure system quality and reliability: Manage system testing strategy and release readiness, delivering defect-free deployments that meet our requirements.
• Improve and simplification: Reduce manual work, eliminate redundant processes, and standardize configurations to improve operational efficiency and maintainability.
• Be a technical and functional leader: Act as the primary escalati