Senior HRIS Specialist - HCM - Integrations (Workday)

The HRIS Specialist – HCM & Integrations administers, configures, and leads Workday HCM, integrations, security, and reporting. This role combines deep Workday technical and functional expertise with strong stakeholder management, communication, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving to deliver scalable, compliant HR technology solutions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the Workday HCM, security, reporting and integrations expert, ensuring platform stability, quality, and best-practice configuration.
• Configure and optimize Workday HCM business processes, security, tenant setup, reporting, and analytics capabilities.
• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain Workday integrations using Core Connectors, EIB, REST/SOAP APIs, XML/XSLT, Studio, and Document Transformation (DT).
• Design and maintain custom reports that serve as data sources for outbound integrations, including web service-enabled reports (RaaS) consumed by downstream systems and vendors.
• Maintain integration reliability through monitoring, alerting, error handling, bi-annual release impact analysis, regression testing, and production support.
• Design, build, and maintain advanced Workday reports (Advanced, Matrix, Composite) and dashboards including complex calculated fields using Report Writer, BIRT/Report Designer, and analytics tools.
• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain Workday security groups—including role-based, aggregation, segment-based, and Integration System Security Groups (ISSGs) and configure domain and business process security policies in alignment with company and regulatory data privacy requirements. Partner with HR, Payroll, Finance, IT, vendors, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, compliant Workday solutions
• Identify automation and process-improvement opportunities across employee lifecycle workflows, data governance, security, and compliance.
• Lead test planning, defect resolution, documentation, user enablement, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement across HRIS.

KNOWLEDGE & ATTRIBUTES

• Deep hands-on Workday HCM configuration expertise, including business process design, condition rules, eligibility rules, calculated fields, testing, and release impact assessment.
• Strong knowledge of Workday integrations, advanced reporting, analytics, tenant management, regression testing, documentation, and production support.
• Strong understanding of HR processes, Payroll dependencies, data governance, compliance, audit controls, security, and integration impacts. Strong critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to design creative, scalable Workday solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and consultative communication skills, including the ability to clarify needs, influence decisions, and translate complex requirements into practical outcomes.
• High attention to detail and ethical standards, with a strong commitment to data confidentiality, security, and responsible HR technology governance.
• Self-starter and creative problem solver with continuous improvement mindset.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS & CERTIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field.
• Workday certification or Workday Pro accreditation preferred.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of progressive HRIS experience, including hands-on Workday HCM configuration, business process design, testing, release management, production support, and functional ownership.
• 5+ years of hands-on Workday integration experience across HR, Benefits, and Payroll, including EIB, Core Connectors, RaaS, REST/SOAP, XML/XSLT, Studio, and Document Transformation (DT).
• Experience delivering and supporting HR, Benefits, and Payroll vendor interfaces, global HR, payroll, total rewards, time, and absence initiatives.
• Advanced Workday reporting experience, including creating complex calculated fields, using Report Writer, BIRT, Dashboards, Prism Analytics, and preferably Workday Extend.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end HR and Payroll processes, Workday configuration, security, reporting frameworks, data structures, and dependencies.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and creative problem-solving in solution design, balancing configuration, process dependencies, data impacts, compliance, user experience, and scalability.
• Project management experience leading HR technology initiatives through planning, prioritization, scoping, testing, change management, deployment, issue resolution, and stakeholder communication.
• Experience with SDLC methodologies, release/change management, Agile delivery, and fast-paced global operating environments.
• Strong stakeholder management, cross-functional collaboration, customer focus, and communication skills with a commitment to high-quality outcomes.

Compensation Pay Range

For roles residing in the US, we share pay and benefit levels to support pay transparency requirements. For other countries, we are more than happy to share our competitive pay and benefit levels during the interview process.

This is a remote position that requires reliable internet connection and electricity. A monthly stipend is provided to cover expenses associated with working remotely and use of a personal mobile device, if applicable.

NTT Global Data Centers Americas, Inc. offers competitive compensation based on experience, education, and location. Base salary for this position is:
$116,400 - 140,000

All regular full-time employees are eligible for an annual bonus; payout is dependent upon individual and company performance.

Employees receive paid time-off, medical, dental, and vision benefits, life and supplemental insurance, short-term and long-term disability, flexible spending account, and 401k retirement plan to create a rich Total Rewards package.