Workday HR Technology Analyst

Title: HR Technology Analyst
Location: Houston, TX (West Side)
Duration: Direct Hire
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holder, or Authorized to Work in the US

• Bachelor's degree in a related field of study or equivalent years of related work experience required.

• 3+ years of demonstrated HR Systems (HCM/HRIS/HRIT) experience or 5+ years of functional experience required.
• 2+ years of development and/or configuration experience within Workday's Human Capital Management system is strongly preferred.
• Advanced Workday training (BIRT, Studio, Report Writer, Calculated Fields, etc.) is strongly preferred for this role.

• Strong working knowledge of HR technology and functional HR processes.
• Demonstrated experience developing, documenting and configuring business processes, advanced calculated fields, and reporting in Workday is preferred.
• Proven ability to develop detailed configuration specification documentation.
• Strong technical aptitude; analytical with excellent problem‑solving abilities and creative resolution skills.
• Ability to prioritize, remain calm under pressure, pay attention to detail and make decisions independently based on fact‑based data and analysis.
• Excellent time‑management skills, able to work on multiple projects and meet deadlines in a fast‑paced environment.
• Strong presentation and communication skills; comfortable interacting across all management levels.
• Customer service oriented; interpersonal with effective listening, speaking and writing skills.
• Ability to work well and function autonomously as needed; work well with teams.
• Self‑motivated, with the ability to meet and exceed position requirements under minimal direction and supervision.
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office programs required; advanced Excel skills including data validation, formulas, macros, and pivot tables preferred.
• Utilize discretion and judgment to maintain confidentiality of sensitive data.

• Collaborate in the ongoing design, configuration, deployment, and upgrades of the human capital management application, Workday; including business process configuration, conditional logic‑based rules, and code‑based system configurations and validations.
• Work in partnership with peers and business partners to ensure a consistent focus on production support, service requests, and roadmap initiatives to ensure a balanced delivery of service and solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Design and implement process improvements to increase efficiencies and ensure reliability.
• Review system data on a regular basis to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and completeness; perform any necessary data clean‑up and sanitization.
• Support system upgrades, enhancements, regression testing, validation, and overall performance; analyze software releases to assess impact of new features.
• Create, validate, and execute all test scenarios for recommended configuration changes and ensure that all business processes are fully tested to guarantee all business requirements have been met.
• Understand, document and communicate impact of configuration changes to all business processes across the platform and the system users.
• Serve as the Workday subject matter expert to internal customers; provide Tier 2 technical support for production support issues including researching and resolving technical problems, unexpected results or process flaws; recommending solutions or alternate methods to meet requirements.
• Develop advanced reports using Workday Report Writer and create and maintain dashboards for ongoing customer needs.
• Develop Workday calculated fields and conditional rules.
• Train new system end users as well as support development of user procedures, job aids, guidelines and documentation.
• Create and process Workday EIBs to load data to support HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Compensation and other areas as needed.
• Understand and support existing integrations with external vendors and other internal departments and applications.
• Maintain data integrity in systems by participating in developing processes to audit, analyze, resolve and prevent future issues.
• Responsibilities may change; team member may be required to perform other…