Workday Senior Solutions Architect

Corporate:
Light & Wonder’s corporate team is comprised of incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees.

Position Summary

The Workday Senior Solutions Architect at Light & Wonder (LNW) supports aspects which operate and enhance the core HCM, Security and reporting functions of Workday in a global business environment.  In addition to specific ERP related activities, the position will work with business leaders to collaborate and develop tactical and strategic HR operations plans. For day-to-day operations, the position will interact with the internal IT organization and external service providers to pursue multiple concurrent initiatives. 

Qualifications

The Workday Sr Solution Architect will serve as support to the primary People Technology liaison to the business to understand business needs and help prioritize and lead the delivery team. The Workday Sr Solution Architect will engage with the business community, both internal and external, to determine needs and identify opportunities for system improvements and maintain the business abreast of upcoming changes. The Workday, Lead Solution Architect will interact with the Platform functionality team, internal centers of excellence's (COE's), HRBP’s, networking teams and external vendors daily to perform the job functionalities.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Serve as a system administrator for Workday Core HCM, Security and Reporting and the go-to subject matter expert and provide Technical leadership to People Capability Operations and Business teams in all aspects of the Workday HCM.
• Participate and/or lead specific projects while working in an environment where we value Knowledge, Openness and Transparency.
• Stay abreast of emerging trends and new functionality in areas related to the Workday product.
• Work both independently and collaboratively with stakeholders and others across the team to define requirements and develop a robust solution.
• Work with functional teams for discovery and design sessions, as needed.
• Designing, development, testing and deployment of Core HCM, Business Process configurations, Security and Reporting
• Experience in designing and developing complex reports as required for some integrations as well as testing and support.
• Facilitate communication and information flow between business partners and project teams to refine requirements and deliver on project goals against long-term Roadmap
• Provide support to functional owners and end users by diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving complex system issues.
• Researches and minimizes reported problems or pain points within HR platforms, drives resolution of issues, analyzes security issues, and recommends corrective and proactive action.
• Establish and adhere to strong ADLC (Application development life-cycle practices and ensure they are followed for all projects. Introduce best practices in terms of Requirements gathering, business processing, and solution design.)
• Partner with internal team members to develop long-term scalable solutions that help improve HR processes and streamline user experience.  Build consensus around business processes, business rules, workflows, and design. Translate business objectives and user needs into clearly written requirements. 
• Partner with vendors on their software and cloud roadmaps, upgrades, restoration of service or resolution of problems.
• Create and maintain documentation on Functional Design Documents, and other materials.
• Implement testing to meet business requirements - perform system testing, and handle User Acceptance testing securing sign-off.
• Maintain reporting standards and coordinate reporting requirements across multiple Business Units
• Deliver training and create training materials as needed.
• Assist in ensuring that all development efforts stay within budget and are completed by agreed to deadlines.

Additional Job Description

• Bachelor’s degree required in Information Systems, BSEE, BSCE, BSEET, or BSCS.
• Workday Certification in Recruitment (must be current).
• Professional experience in business systems analysis/engineering, solution design and deployment experience.
• Advanced experience in Workday Functional Design and configuration development.
• Excellent working knowledge of Core HCM, Business Process Configuration. Security Administration and Reporting
• Good working knowledge of Core and Advanced Compensation, Benefits, Recruiting, Talent Management, Time Tracking, Absence Management,
• Workday Phase 1 & Phase 2 implementations experience required with a good understanding of functional design and testing concepts and workday business process framework frameworks
• Data conversion concepts and impacts on business processes.
• Knowledge of all phases of system development lifecycle, including, new skew implementation and production support
• Subject matter expert in the Software Development Lifecycle and operating systems for HCM
• US and Global data privacy laws, GDPR and Sarbanes Oxley compliance.
• JIRA, ServiceNow or similar ticketing system experience preferred.

Skills & Abilities

• Strong analytical skills, problem solving and troubleshooting abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with a focus on documentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment, especially with virtual geographically diverse teams.
• Highly organized with the ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively while demonstrating a sense of urgency.

What we can offer?

• Competitive salary and annual performance bonus
• 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays'
• Hybrid working: 2 days working from home, 3 days in the office
• 1 day paid leave to work on charitable projects
• 1 day paid for a Celebration of your choice
• Half Day for Health (encouraging you to take time away for you & your wellbeing)
• 5% employer pension contributions
• A reward platform offering a cycle to work scheme and shopping and lifestyle discounts/cashback
• Private Medical Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment.

Work Conditions

Light & Wonder, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “LNW”) are engaged in highly regulated gaming and lottery businesses.   As a result, certain LNW employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts.   In order to ensure LNW complies with its regulatory and contractual commitments, as a condition to hiring and continuing to employ its employees, LNW requires all of its employees to meet those requirements that are necessary to fulfill their individual roles.  As a prerequisite to employment with LNW (to the extent permitted by law), you shall be asked to consent to LNW conducting a due diligence/background investigation on you.
This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.