# Staff HRIS Analyst, People Technology - Workday

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote, US
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/8490129002
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_779b09fc-db5

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Workday
- HCM
- Compensation
- Benefits
- Time tracking
- Talent
- Performance
- Security
- AI
- Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)
- SOX ITGC