Workday Administrator - HCM, Payroll & Intergrations

The Workday Administrator – HCM, Payroll & Integrations, serves as a business partner to functional stakeholders, accountable for configuring, maintaining, and optimizing Workday HCM and Payroll to support accurate, compliant, and efficient people operations, while also building and supporting the Workday integrations across HCM and Financials that keep data flowing between Workday and payroll, benefits, banking, and other business systems. This role balances day-to-day Workday administration with proactive advisory, ensuring our Workday HCM environment evolves in lockstep with Evergreen’s strategy and operating model.

Hands‑on experience administering Workday HCM and Payroll, along with strong Workday integrations experience, is required for this role;
Workday reporting experience is a plus. The person in this role actively contributes to our culture of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and supported. Success in this role requires the ability to thrive in a fast‑paced environment, adapt to change, and support company growth. Trusted relationships across Evergreen and with partners are essential, along with professionalism, and a collaborative mindset that reflects Evergreen’s values (Care Personally, Extend Grace, Be Responsive, Take Ownership, Be Transparent, Innovate).

The salary range for this position starts at $110,000, depending on experience, in addition to bonus eligibility and a comprehensive benefits package.

Build trusted relationships with teams across the business to understand needs, priorities, and constraints. Facilitate intake conversations, discovery workshops, and solution design sessions to gather business requirements, evaluate feasibility, and align on new functionality, Workday feature releases, and potential future module deployments. Translate business challenges and goals into clear system requirements, technical specifications, and scalable process and configuration designs that meet compliance needs and can be supported in Workday.

Proactively anticipate needs and identify gaps before issues arise, advising stakeholders on best practices, system capabilities, and trade‑offs to support informed decision‑making. Prioritize enhancements by balancing user experience, strategic impact, capacity, and operational risk.

Configure and maintain the Workday tenant, ensuring a stable, secure, and scalable environment that supports daily HR and Payroll operations. Map business processes end‑to‑end to identify dependencies, bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and user pain points, then design optimized workflows and automations that reduce manual work, eliminate rework, improve accuracy, and shorten cycle times. Monitor system performance, identify issues proactively, and resolve defects through structured troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis.

Manage end‑user incidents and service requests: triage, prioritize, and resolve them within agreed service expectations, escalating to Workday or third‑party vendors as needed. Coordinate release cycles, including environment refreshes, regression testing, deployment validation, and stakeholder communication. Test, measure, and iterate on configuration and workflow changes using success metrics, user feedback, and operational outcomes. Document configurations, changes, workflows, and best practices for clear knowledge transfer.

Build, configure, and deploy Workday integrations using EIB, Core Connectors, and Workday Studio to connect Workday HCM and Financials with payroll, benefits, banking, and other downstream systems. Test integrations end to end in…