Workday HRIS Specialist, Senior Principal ( Advanced and Integrations

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We are hiring an experienced Workday Technical and Functional Consultant to act as the single point of contact between our HR, Finance, IT and business stakeholders and the Workday delivery team. This is a hands-on configuration role, not a program management role: the successful candidate will have spent the last 10 years working inside Workday tenants, configuring solutions, building and troubleshooting integrations, and producing reporting that leaders actually use.

The role sits at the center of demand and delivery. Requests arrive from many directions and in many forms, from a one-line question about an eligibility rule to a multi-quarter programme of work. This person translates those requests into clear problem statements, sizes them honestly, and then distributes the work across the full delivery group, which spans our internal HRIS team members and our Workday consultant.

Part of that judgement is deciding at the point of intake which items should sit with the consultant from the start rather than being picked up internally and handed over later. Equally important is the ability to explain the resulting design back to the requesting team in plain business language, and to the delivery group in configuration terms.

• Serve as the single point of contact for all stakeholder groups raising Workday demand, running a consistent intake process rather than an ad hoc queue.
• Gather, challenge and document requirements from HR, Payroll, Finance, IT and business leaders, converting loosely worded asks into precise, testable problem statements.
• Translate business problem statements into functional and technical design for the team, and translate proposed Workday solutions back into language the requesting team can validate and sign off.
• Maintain a single prioritized demand backlog, agree sequencing with stakeholders, and communicate trade-offs when capacity is constrained.
• Run design walkthroughs, impact assessments and readiness sessions ahead of each Workday release.

• Own end-to-end configuration design across the Workday footprint, working hands-on in the tenant rather than directing others from a distance.
• Configure and troubleshoot business processes, condition rules, security groups, domain and business process security policies, calculated fields and eligibility rules.
• Assess downstream impact of every change across modules before it is built, and protect tenant hygiene through disciplined use of sandbox, sandbox preview and production migration practices.
• Define and enforce configuration standards, naming conventions, testing expectations and documentation for the team.

• Design, build and support integrations using EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Studio and web services, including error handling, monitoring and re-run procedures.
• Act as the technical authority on integration issues raised by vendors and downstream system owners, and drive root cause analysis to closure.
• Build advanced, matrix, composite reporting, and advise stakeholders on the right reporting approach rather than building every request as asked.
• Ensure reporting and integration outputs respect data privacy, segregation of duties and audit requirements.

• Assess the complexity, risk and effort of each incoming requirement and assign it to the right owner across the delivery group, which includes internal HRIS team members and our Workday consultant.
• Balance workload across internal team members and consultant capacity, track progress against commitments, and elevate early when a commitment is at risk.
• Review the work of internal team members and the consultant, provide technical coaching, and raise the overall configuration capability of the group.

• Decide at the point of intake, rather than mid-delivery, which items should go to the consultant from the start and which the internal HRIS team should own, based on complexity, specialist skill requirements, timeline pressure and internal capacity.
• Prepare scope and requirement documentation for consultant-delivered work, review the designs and deliverables that come back, and hold the consultant to quality and timeline expectations.
• Track the split between internal and consultant delivery, and advise leadership on where that boundary should sit as internal capability grows.

The candidate must…