Workday Senior Product Specialist

The Product Systems Senior Specialist is an expert in a given HR product area, accountable for the requirements gathering, solution design, coordination of the configuration and deployment with other system teams or third parties, and the implementation and adoption of the solution.

The Product Systems Senior Specialist works closely with functional SMEs and Process Owners to understand business operations, analyze technology issues and identify improvement opportunities, which then are translated into technology solution designs based on tooling and market best practices.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Scan the latest technology trends in the given HR product area and share these (proactively) with the functional owners.

  
  

• End to end ownership of product development from requirements gathering to implementation and adoption

  
  

• Independently Implement new features & managing changes in existing products

  
  

• Ensure alignment and sign off on tech changes by stakeholders (incl BAS, Projects, Change Requests)

  
  

• Focus on Mid to High Complexity people system implementations

  
  

• Working on technology implementation projects with impact to the People Functions, IT Service, Finance, etc.

  
  

• Ensure the IT infrastructure is compliant with GDPR legislation, IT Security standards and IT Architectural design principles.

  
  

• Work with the Senior Product Systems Manager and People Systems Architects to ensure solutions are flawlessly integrated into People Systems and technology landscape and roadmaps and overall Booking.com ERP architecture and roadmaps/plans.

  
  

• Work closely together with functional owners and People Systems teams (System Architecture, Application Management and Integration) to ensure maximum value delivery through solution adoption and continuous improvement activities.

• Ensure alignment on solutions for enabling internal stakeholders, support solution evaluation, manage solution planning and delivery

  
  

• Align on objectives, monitor the status of SOX compliance and remediation plans with the Audit teams

  
  

• Mentor junior specialist on different technical solutions

  
  

• Ensure all the services in place, review new contracts and vendors for optimal solution for the people systems

  
  

• Ensure alignment on People (System) Architecture and Integration strategy is aligned to business strategic priorities

Requirements of special knowledge / skills

• Knowledge of Recruitment Systems (ATS/CRM) and/or Enterprise systems (Workday)

• Experience with other HR information systems, preferably with cloud solutions (e.g. ServiceNow, Docebo, Workday, SAP, Mulesoft, etc.)

  
  

• Workday TA module, Workday HCM module, Workday job architecture

  
  

• Very strong process and technology expertise within the given HR product area