Senior HRIS Administrator (Workday)
At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift. If you are an Internal Candidate, please apply via our Internal Job Board. To thrive as a company and meet our impact goals, we must cultivate a culture of high-performance. We know managers are often the single-largest driver of employee satisfaction and growth, and our talent is our biggest asset. Because of that, we’ve identified consistent expectations for all of Guild’s people managers — helping you know what to expect from your experience here. Guild is hiring a
- *Senior HRIS Administrator (Workday)**
to be a critical technical resource within Guild's Enterprise Business Systems team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Business Systems. This role provides expert-level support and advanced configuration across Guild's Workday HCM ecosystem, working collaboratively with the Senior Manager and Workday Architect to deliver escalated support, functional configurations, and integration development. You will serve as a trusted technical partner to business owners and HR stakeholders, contributing your expertise to ensure our Workday environment is functionally sound, optimally configured, and aligned with the team's strategic roadmap.
- *Responsibilities
- *Support & Functional Expertise
- Application Support: Support across all Workday modules (HCM, Absence, Time Tracking, Benefits, Payroll, Talent). You will diagnose root causes, resolve configuration conflicts, and provide expert guidance to both end users and internal support teams.
- Proactive Issue Prevention: Identify systemic patterns in support tickets and collaborate with the team to translate them into configuration improvements, documentation enhancements, or training opportunities.
- *Functional Configuration & Business Enablement
- Configuration Delivery: Design, build, test, and deploy functional configurations across Workday modules in partnership with business owners. You will translate business requirements into technical solutions that align with Workday best practices.
- Business Process Optimization: Evaluate existing workflows and propose configuration enhancements that improve user experience, reduce manual work, and increase data integrity.
- Testing & Quality Assurance: Coordinate UAT for module changes and bi-annual Workday releases, ensuring business stakeholders have the tools and guidance to validate functionality before production deployment.
- *Advanced Reporting & Analytics
- Reporting Development: Design and maintain complex Workday reports, custom reports, calculated fields, and dashboards that enable data-driven decision-making.
- Self-Service Enablement: Provide training to business users to empower them to access real-time insights.
- Data Integrity Steward: Monitor Workday processes for anomalies, working cross-functionally to resolve data quality issues at their source.
- *Integration Development & Innovation
- Integration Partnership: Work closely with the Workday Architect to support the design, build, and maintenance of integrations using EIBs, Workday Orchestrate, and Connectors.
- Prism Analytics: Collaborate on the development and maintenance of Prism datasets that enrich Workday with external data sources, enabling advanced analytics and cross-system reporting.
- Orchestrations & Automation: Support the development of intelligent workflows using Workday Orchestrations to automate business processes, reduce manual touchpoints, and improve operational efficiency.
- AI & Enterprise Integration: Contribute to exploration and implementation of cutting-edge integrations between Workday and AI platforms (MCP/AI agents) and enterprise applications, partnering with the Architect to drive innovation in how Guild leverages its people data.
- *Platform Governance & Compliance
- Configuration Management: Maintain documentation of functional configurations, business process frameworks, and integration specifications in collaboration with the Enterprise Business Systems team. Support change management processes that align with IT control requirements.
- Security & Access Controls
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