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Staff HRIS Analyst, People Technology - Workday

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remote staff full-time Remote, US
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First indexed 18 Apr 2026

Description

As a Staff Human Resources Information Systems Analyst, People Technology - Workday, you'll own the HRIS product roadmap, drive system evolution, and build scalable solutions that reduce friction and improve reliability, usability, and insight across the People technology landscape.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Owning the HRIS product roadmap, proactively identifying gaps, championing improvements, and driving system evolution that reduces friction and enables scale across People operations.
  • Pushing past surface-level requests to diagnose root needs, challenge assumptions, and co-design solutions that are durable, efficient, and built to last.
  • Leading Workday configuration, release readiness, and testing for annual People programs and system updates to support on-time launches and smoother releases.
  • Building and governing integrations across the People technology ecosystem, including troubleshooting issues and improving system reliability and uptime.
  • Defining and enforcing security and access governance practices across People systems, navigating SOX ITGC requirements with fluency.
  • Creating reports, dashboards, and analyses that help stakeholders make faster, more informed decisions with clearer and more reliable people data.
  • Driving mass data changes, policy rollouts, and system updates with careful testing and strong attention to detail.
  • Elevating system capability across the organization, enabling users and building toward a self-sufficient workforce that gets the most from the tools available to them.

To succeed in this role, you'll bring:

  • Deep, hands-on Workday expertise across HCM, compensation, benefits, time tracking, talent, performance, and security.
  • An AI-forward approach to people technology, actively experimenting with and applying AI tools to automate workflows, accelerate analysis, and eliminate manual work.
  • Experience building and scaling people technology in a public company environment with working knowledge of SOX ITGC requirements.
  • A product ownership mindset, including defining problems, evaluating tradeoffs, and owning outcomes.
  • Strong integration experience, including Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) and related Workday ecosystem tools.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to turn complex system logic into clear requirements, decisions, and stakeholder updates.
  • Sound judgment in assessing business impact, downstream effects, and change management implications when designing system changes.
  • Consulting instincts and presence, leading design discussions, navigating ambiguity, and earning trust as the person stakeholders come to when they need a true thought partner.
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