Workday Systems Analyst

Advocate Aurora Health
Oak Brook, IL, United States
27 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
2 years minimum
Compensation
$73,840.0 - $110,760.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Data Analysis System Configuration Data Auditing Data Integrity Release Management Systems Integration Reliability of Systems Lasttests HR Software Workday Business Process Information Technology
+5 more
Data Management Workday HRIS EIB Workday Reporting Workday

Job description

This opportunity offers the chance to lead moderately complex Workday initiatives that support key HR processes across the teammate lifecycle, including hiring, onboarding, learning, movement, compensation, absence, and separation. The Systems Analyst Senior will independently manage assigned priorities, translate business needs into thoughtful Workday solutions, and ensure configurations align with enterprise standards, governance, security, and best practices.

In this role, you’ll serve as a trusted technical resource and consultative partner, helping stakeholders understand system capabilities, trade-offs, and impacts while designing solutions that improve usability, consistency, data integrity, and operational effectiveness. Leveraging strong Workday knowledge and hands-on configuration experience, you’ll play a key role in enhancing HR technology solutions that support workforce operations and elevate the teammate experience.

What You’ll Do

  • Independently support and lead the configuration, maintenance, and optimization of assigned Workday modules.
  • Partner cross-functionally with HR, IT, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable Workday configurations.
  • Configure and optimize Workday business processes, security, eligibility rules, notifications, reporting, and related system functionality.
  • Lead moderately complex initiatives with minimal support while managing assigned work, priorities, timelines, and deliverables.
  • Support HR process design and ensure Workday solutions align with governance, best practices, enterprise standards, and teammate experience goals.
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of cross-functional system solutions in partnership with HR and IT.
  • Evaluate and apply digital capabilities across varied systems and domains to improve HR service delivery and workforce operations.
  • Ensure solutions adhere to architectural, security, compliance, privacy, and governance standards.
  • Support system reliability, data integrity, release management, testing, and operational sustainability.
  • Evaluate digital and AI-enabled solutions by assessing readiness, data integrity, integration capability, and operational viability.
  • Use workforce data and reporting insights to support decision-making, compliance, and continuous improvement.
  • Balance stakeholder needs with Workday capabilities, system constraints, and enterprise standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • 2-4 years of Workday or HRIS experience.
  • Strong hands-on Workday configuration experience across Workday modules.
  • Experience with Workday Business Process Framework, security, eligibility rules, notifications, and system governance.
  • Advanced Workday reporting knowledge, including calculated fields, dashboards, and data analysis.
  • Foundational knowledge of integrations, EIBs, data audits, and system impacts.
  • Understanding of Workday release management, testing standards, and implementation best practices.
  • Strong understanding of employee lifecycle processes, including hire, movement, compensation, absence, and separation.
  • Ability to translate HR and business needs into system designs that balance capability, teammate experience, and operational feasibility.
  • Strong consultation skills with the ability to explain system trade-offs, constraints, and implications to HR and business partners.
  • Commitment to workforce data stewardship, confidentiality, privacy, and appropriate use of employee data.
  • Ability to design and refine Workday interactions that improve usability, consistency, adoption, and the overall teammate experience.
  • Interest in digital and AI-enabled capabilities that support HR systems, workforce operations, and enterprise scalability.

Preferred

  • Workday Pro Certification or active progress toward certification.
  • Experience supporting multiple Workday modules in a complex enterprise environment.
  • Experience partnering with HR, IT, and business stakeholders on cross-functional system initiatives.
  • Experience supporting Workday reporting, dashboards, calculated fields, integrations, business processes, security, and release testing.
  • Familiarity with emerging technologies, digital tools, and AI-enabled solutions that enhance HR service delivery and workforce insights.

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