HRIS Consultant (Workday) at Zendesk – Austin, Texas

Location: Austin, Texas, United States of America | Remote, Texas, United States of America

Requisition ID: R34717

Position_Type: Full time

Job DescriptionWho We’re Looking For

We are seeking a Consultant level HRIS Analyst who is as comfortable designing and building a best-in-class global business process as they are diving into the ticket queue to solve a complex errors. You are someone who leads the evolution of our Workday landscape but remains deeply "hands-on" in the system. You don't just fix problems; you document the "why" and bring junior team members along for the ride. We need a versatile Workday expert who has the breadth to see how changes impact across the broader ecosystem and a desire to continue developing.

What You’ll Be Doing

• End-to-end Configuration: Own the end-to-end configuration for Workday Recruiting (Business Process, Reports, Integrations, Gem Overlay, and Security) while maintaining "day-to-day" ticket workload across supported modules.

• Mentorship & Cross-Training: Act as a technical escalation point for junior analysts. You will lead "knowledge transfer" sessions and build documentation to ensure the team is cross-trained and that no single person is a "single point of failure."

• System Evolution: Lead the technical roadmap and guide best practice configuration for supported modules, ensuring we are maximizing our Workday investment through biannual releases and feature adoption.

• Production Support: Troubleshoot complex issues involving Calculated Fields, Business Processes, and Security Groups with a focus on root-cause analysis and permanent solutions.

• Stakeholder Partnership: Partner with business stakeholders to translate "people strategy" into technical reality, managing expectations and delivering results in an agile environment.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years in HRIS, with 3+ years of deep Workday configuration experience.

• Module Expertise: 2+ years of deep configuration experience within Recruiting. Flexibility and experience in Core HCM, Reporting, and US Benefits is highly preferred. Experience with the Gem overlay to Workday recruiting is a bonus.

• Technical "Heavy Lifting": Expert-level skills in Reporting, Calculated Fields, and EIBs. You must be comfortable managing data loads and complex logic independently.

• Testing & Documentation: A disciplined approach to UAT, regression testing, and creating "living" technical documentation that the whole team can use.

What Will Set You Apart

• The "No Task Too Small" Mentality: You take pride in a clean ticket queue and high user satisfaction scores.

• Natural Teacher: You have a track record of coaching more junior peers and helping them level up their configuration skills.

• Solution Architect Mindset: You can look at a messy manual process and visualize the automated Workday solution, then actually build it.

• Technical Translation: The ability to explain complex technical "Workday-speak" to non-technical stakeholders

• Curiosity: Naturally curious and solutions-driven, with a history of taking ownership and driving tasks forward with minimal direction

The US annualized base salary range for this position is $122,000.00-$182,000.00. This position may also be eligible for bonus, benefits, or related incentives. While this range reflects the minimum and maximum value for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations, the offer for the successful candidate for this position will be based on job related capabilities, applicable experience, and other factors such as work location. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only (or OTE for commissions based roles), and do not include bonus, benefits, or related incentives.

Hybrid: In this role, our hybrid experience is designed at the team level to give you a rich onsite experience packed with connection, collaboration, learning, and celebration - while also giving you flexibility to work remotely for part of the week. This role must attend our local office for part of the week. The specific in-office schedule is to be determined by the hiring manager.

The intelligent heart of customer experience

Zendesk software was built to bring a sense of calm to the chaotic world of customer service. Today we power billions of conversations with brands you know and love.

Zendesk believes in offering our people a fulfilling and inclusive experience. Our hybrid way of working, enables us to purposefully come together in person, at one of our many Zendesk offices around the world, to connect, collaborate and learn whilst also giving our people the flexibility to work remotely for part of the week.

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