Solutions Architect, HRIS

Why Ryan?

Hybrid Work Options Award-Winning Culture Generous Personal Time Off (PTO) Benefits
14-Weeks of 100% Paid Leave for New Parents (Adoption Included)
Monthly Gym Membership Reimbursement OR Gym Equipment Reimbursement Benefits Eligibility Effective Day One
401K with Employer Match Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service Fertility Assistance Program Four-Week Company-Paid Sabbatical Eligibility After Five Years of Service We are seeking a skilled and experienced HCM Solutions Architect to join our People Technology team. In this role, you will be responsible for forward looking HCM Roadmap and influence the technology stack through your end-to-end expertise. You will also drive our optimization efforts through your domain and technology expertise.

The responsibility for this role includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of Workday and related solutions within our organization. You will collaborate closely with the People Group, and other stakeholders, including Finance and IT to ensure our Workday platform and related HCM solutions meet business requirements and enhance operational efficiency

The ideal candidate will have an expert level understanding of Workday and other HCM solutions’ cross-functional complexities, security, configurations, and best practices, coupled with strong analytical skills and the ability to translate business requirements into effective system solutions. This role is expected to influence, collaborate and develop best in class solutions.

This role will also be responsible for identifying AI and automation solutions to help us scale and provide a seamless and frictionless experience to team members

This is a hybrid role requiring 1-2 days a week in our Plano office.

Duties and responsibilities, as they align to Ryan’s Key Results People:

Stakeholder Engagement Serve as a strategic advisor to our People Group and other Stakeholders, translating complex business needs into scalable, maintainable solutions leveraging Workday and other related technologies.

Partner with stakeholders to define problem statements, assess business impact, and ensure alignment between technology solutions and business priorities.

Client:

Solution Design Collaborate with cross-functional global teams to gather requirements; analyze workflows and data needs; identify opportunities for people, process, and technology improvements; and, prioritize and refine requested improvements

Evaluate and shape new project and product requests for strategic fit, technical feasibility, and alignment with enterprise system design

Provide leadership on build vs. buy decisions, managing technical debt, scalability, and performance trade-offs.

Act as a thought partner and a mentor to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and excellence

Value:

System Configuration & Process Optimization Design, develop and oversee the application of innovative, scalable configuration standards and solutions that drive automation, efficiency, and long-term scalability

Ensure system and data integrity through expert-level configuration of security, business processes, calculated fields, condition rules, and validations

Design and optimize data flows between Workday and internal systems, ensuring data accuracy and process efficiency

Expert level Subject matter expert in more than one of the Workday modules - including HCM, Security, Learning, Absence, Compensation, Performance, Time Tracking, Analytics Configure Workday functionality based on business needs and best practices

Develop and execute test plans to ensure system integrity and data accuracy

Ability to design and deliver Workday Extend, PRISM and Agentic AI solutions

Lead Development, Support, and Continual Improvement Ability to be…