Director, Workday Recruiting and Onboarding

The Director of Workday Recruiting and Onboarding serves as the enterprise owner of the platform, accountable for architecture, strategy, and lifecycle management of these modules. The role initially leads successful implementation delivery and transition into long-term optimization, governance, and continuous innovation. This leader combines deep technical expertise with strategic vision to drive scalable, high-impact HR technology solutions that enhance operational performance and user experience across the organization.

Success in this role requires close partnership with HR, IT, and business leadership to translate complex requirements into resilient system design and sustainable processes.

• Serve as enterprise technical owner and subject matter authority for Workday Recruiting and Onboarding, ensuring architecture, configuration, and system design align with business strategy.
• Define and execute the strategic roadmap, driving feature adoption, integrations, and platform optimization across the Workday modules under their responsibility.
• Execute and lead complex configuration, enhancement, and automation initiatives to improve scalability, system performance, and user experience.
• Evaluate current-state processes and architecture to deliver innovative, best-practice solutions that streamline operations and support growth.
• Partner with HR and cross-functional leadership to influence enterprise HR technology decisions and translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Oversee delivery of cross-functional projects, ensuring governance, quality standards, and architectural consistency.
• Manage vendor and third-party solution relationships to ensure reliable, secure, and strategically aligned service delivery.
• Establish governance and performance monitoring practices to maintain system integrity, data quality, and operational health.
• Provide expert consultation on escalated technical challenges and architectural decisions.
• Lead and mentor technical staff to build scalable delivery capability and continuous improvement.

• Demonstrated ability to anticipate, analyze, and architect solutions for complex HR and technology challenges in an enterprise environment.
• Advanced program, project, and change leadership skills, with a track record of aligning diverse stakeholders and driving large-scale initiatives to completion.
• Bachelor's degree in related field (Information Systems, HR, Business Administration, or similar).
• 8+ years of experience in HR Systems / HR Operations roles.
• Workday certification(s).

• Advanced functional and technical expertise in Workday Core HCM, Recruiting, and Onboarding, including architecture design, configuration strategy, business process framework, and integrations.
• Demonstrated success driving HR technology process improvement, automation, and system modernization initiatives.
• Experience managing complex vendor and partner relationships, including Workday and third-party solution providers.
• Strong knowledge of Workday Recruiting partner technologies (e.g., Paradox, eSkill, Hired Score) and integration best practices.
• Experience operating in a global, matrixed environment with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Executive-level communication and influence skills, with the ability to align senior leadership around technical and business decisions.
• Track record of building high-trust cross-functional partnerships to deliver enterprise technology outcomes.

Our goal is to support the wellbeing of you and your families—physically, emotionally, and financially. We offer market competitive benefits (including pension), gym and family friendly options. We also offer professional development programme, wellness, recognition, community volunteering initiatives, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements. A strong commitment to continuous improvement, championing best-in-class system experiences through thoughtful architecture, configuration, and process design.