Workday Payroll Architect

• Owns the architecture and configuration for the payroll ecosystem

• Create and maintain payroll eligibility rules, payroll calculations, earning and deduction codes, pay components, and pay component groups for multiple companies

• Maintain payroll system configuration to process garnishments, pretax/post‑tax deductions, retro pay, off‑cycle payrolls, bonuses, and year‑end processing

• Create and validate federal, state, and local tax configurations ensuring legal compliance

• Partner with functional teams including Benefits, Absence, Compensation, and HCM to drive efficient and accurate payroll processing

• Partner with Workday integration developers on all integrations impacting payroll

• Develop custom reports including but not limited to Standard, Advanced, and Matix reports

• Identify opportunities to enhance payroll efficiency, accuracy, automation, and employee experience

• Complete payroll inputs and payroll EIBs

• Lead new configuration testing and deployment into our production tenant

• Lead regression testing for new Workday releases

• Complete data audits to ensure data integrity in all aspects of payroll

• Maintain and improve payroll dashboards to empower the payroll processing team

• Assist HCM Manager with preparing change management plans and creating guides for end users

• Test AI features such as Workday’s Payroll Agent and assist with overall innovation enhancements

• 4-8 years of Workday Payroll configuration experience

• Experience with US Payroll taxes

• Understanding of touchpoints between Benefits, Absence, HCM, and Payroll