Job Post Title
Solutions Architect
Job Post Summary
Seeking a Solutions Architect to review 2023-2024 cycle, understand desired changes for 2024-2025 cycle, consult on solution/best practice and configure and implement solutions.
Job Post Description
Job Description
- Will serve in a HR technology role to support Workday advanced compensation cycle.
- Consultant will review 2023-2024 cycle, understand desired changes for 2024-2025 cycle, consult on solution/best practice and configure and implement solutions.
- In addition to the annual cycle, consultant will work on miscellaneous defect and enhancement projects in compensation, core HR or US payroll functional areas.
- Will be responsible for functional and technical guidance and consulting throughout the lifecycle of each project, including design, impact analysis, configuration, security, testing and implementation.
- Will research and evaluate options, recommend alternative solutions, impacts, prioritize deliverables and drive each unit of work to completion.
- Role is focused on "Core Compensation" and "Advanced Compensation"
- Will work closely with HR compensation SMEs to prioritize work, plan deliverables, translate complex global business requirements into system solutions and configuration, as well as system developers on integration and other technical design considerations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in a similar role
- Previous Workday implementation or support required.
- Strong knowledge of Workday, with experience configuring and supporting Advanced and Core Compensation and one or more of the additional functional areas - benefits or US payroll.
- Workday HCM solution architect with previous experience implementing or supporting complex advanced compensation cycle.
- Experience supporting or implementing either benefits or US Payroll.
- Adept at testing and troubleshooting integration issues and defining requirements for new integrations
- Experience loading data with Workday EIBs
- Strong consulting and communication skills needed to work with HR leaders and partners and review and prioritize work and offer solutions
- Project management skills
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work well with business subject matter experts and technical resources to deliver work on time according to project schedule.
- Knowledge of system capabilities, usually acquired through formal training or experience, is required to assess automation and configuration possibilities
- Organizational skills are required to develop and monitor project plans as well as organize time/juggle competing priorities effectively
- Ability to work under tight deadlines, handling multiple assignments simultaneously is essential
- Familiar in areas such as Talent management, Merit pool planning, business processes related to employee terminations, etc.
- Autonomous/Independent - able to take requirements, then design, test & deploy solutions
- A techno-functional resource would be ideal
Duration: 7months Potential extension
IV: 3rounds
70% solutioning expertise and experience with navigating advanced compensation cycles, and propose changes, assess and implement tasks, core HCM, key focus on core comp than advanced comp
Product expertise, ability to work independently, take directions, requirements, work with the group of design and test solutions, deploy the solutions, Project management skills, clearly articulate time lines, resource needs, reporting status, independent Project management skills is important to complement the techno-functional skills
Not much integration/configuration. There is an IT team for this
Min 3year experience
Advanced Compensation, bonus planning cycle, merit cycles, how they intersect with Performance assessment and talent management experience
- Hiring Manager: Mike McLellan (delegate) Denyse Reese (HM - didn't attend)
- Location: 181 W. Madison, Chicago, IL, US, 60603 (Hybrid: Tuesday - Thursday)
- Duration/Conversion: 7 Months minimum (likely to extend/convert based on performance; goal is to convert)
- Work Schedule/On-call/OT: 40 hours/week, M-F, flexible start time (7:30/8:30am - 5:00/5:30pm)
- Target start date: ASAP
- Interviews: Likely 3 rounds
- Education/Certifications: Bachelor's required for conversion to FTE
Role/Project Description & Details
- Several compensation/payroll/benefit changes coming up for year-end
- Need expertise in areas of advanced comp & payroll cycles
- Focus is "Core Compensation" and "Advanced Compensation"
- More "functional"/business/process work vs. "technical"/integration/configuration work
- A techno-functional resource would be ideal
- Translating business requirements to process/system designs
Required Skills/Qualifications
- Strong knowledge of Workday, with experience configuring and supporting Core Compensation, Advanced Comp functional areas
- Top 3:
- Workday HCM capabilities/solutions, focusing business processes related to core and advanced compensation
- Autonomous/Independent - able to take requirements, then design, test & deploy solutions
- Foundational project management skills - coordination, status reports, organization, etc.
- 3-5 years' minimum experience in a similar role
Strongly Preferred Skills/Qualifications
- Familiar in areas such as Talent management, Merit pool planning, business processes related to employee terminations, etc.
Loosely Preferred Skills/Qualifications
- Experience with technical HCM implementations/integrations
- Related certifications
