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Sr HRIS Specialist

Job in Herndon, Fairfax County, Virginia, 22070, USA
Listing for: Airbus
Contract position
Listed on 2026-09-22
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
  • HR/Recruitment
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 69000 - 76000 USD Yearly USD 69000.00 76000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Sr HRIS Specialist (Contract)

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Job Description

Airbus Americas, Inc is looking for a Senior HRIS Specialist (Contract) to join our Human Resources team. The Senior HRIS Specialist will support the HR business strategy and initiatives of North America: from implementing Workday HCM capabilities - Benefits, Compensation, Absence Management, Time Management and Payroll. Additionally ensuring the maintenance and evolution of our current HRIS systems fitting the business evolutions, to leading the transition to a new technology suite and implementing a new operating model.

The HR specialist will leverage their expertise to influence business and technology design decisions, to serve as the subject matter expert with external vendors and partnering with HR, IM and Legal teams to ensure system compliance with federal and state regulations, data security, privacy requirements and local constraints. The Senior HRIS Specialist will closely collaborate with stakeholders and senior members and will report to the Head of HRIS for North America.

Your

Challenges
  • 50% Oversee and maintain optimal function of the HR systems, incl. administration, development, maintenance and upgrades to applications, systems and modules.
  • Facilitate the transformation of our HRIS roadmap onto Workday and Service Now and additional new HRIS technologies.
  • Perform detailed analysis of complex business process requirements and provide appropriate system solutions.
  • Design, customize, configure and test HR processes.
  • Proactively identify and propose business process and/or systems enhancements.
  • Provide support through reporting and technical expertise for internal/external audits.
  • Ensure HRIS system compliance with federal and state regulations, data security and privacy requirements.
  • Serve as a strategic partner and Subject Matter Expert representing Airbus interests with HRIS suppliers, vendors and service providers.
  • Evaluate new software versions, enhancements and plans for upgrades, assist in review and management of Workday releases, train others, as needed.
  • Work with SMEs, technical teams, and business process owners to research and evaluate alternatives, citing evidence in support of and making recommendations.
  • Manage and diagnose issues through ticket management and on-call support + Understand the details of Workday system and educate end users on best practices.
HR Data and Reporting
  • 10% Build reports to meet requests of the HR organization, Senior Leadership and Managers, identifying opportunities for automation and efficiencies along the way.
  • Proactively apply analytical and research skills to monitor trends and elevate issues.
  • Assist on the design, support and coordinate the development of business relevant analytics and processes; includes researching industry best practices, benchmarks and tools to incorporate into analytics practices.
  • Support HRBP’s by fielding questions about the HR tools.
  • Maintain HR databases, audit data, and propose business process improvements and automation.
  • Maintain the organizational management structure to ensure the hierarchy is accurate and reflects up-to-date information for positions, reporting relationships, compensation data, cost centers, EEO reporting, worker’s compensation, Global HR reporting, and alignment.
  • Assist in ensuring data audits, integrity, testing of system changes, report writing/running/scheduling, and analyzing data…
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