Workday Hris Specialist

Azelis India; Bogotá; On-site; COD 1,000,000,000 - 1,400,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Azelis India seeks a dedicated Workday Product Owner to drive functional ownership across HR technology capabilities and maintain a clear product backlog aligned with the global HRIS strategy.

You will partner with Group HR, Regional HR, IT, and vendors to deliver scalable, well-governed HR solutions while safeguarding data quality and security across Workday configurations.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Workday Product Owner or similar role.
• Strong stakeholder management across HR, IT and vendors.
• Knowledge of HR policies, data governance and security principles.

Responsibilities

• Act as the functional owner for assigned Workday product areas and related HR technology capabilities within the global HRIS landscape.
• Maintain the product vision, backlog, priorities and improvement roadmap in alignment with the Global HRIS strategy.
• Prioritise enhancements, defects and continuous improvement opportunities based on business value and risk.
• Lead functional configuration for Workday enhancements and process changes.
• Coordinate testing, releases and change management to ensure successful deployments.

Skills

Workday

Product ownership

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

HRIS

SQL

Job description

Purpose statement

To own the functional lifecycle, continuous improvement and effective use of assigned Workday product areas, ensuring they remain reliable, scalable, well governed and aligned with Azelis' global HR processes and business needs. The Workday Product Owner translates HR and business requirements into practical system solutions, manages the product backlog and priorities, safeguards configuration and data quality, and partners with Group HR, Regional HR, IT, vendors and other Product Owners to deliver an effective employee, manager and HR user experience. Product ownership is capability-based rather than permanently tied to a specific Workday module. Product assignments may rotate over time based on business priorities, team capacity, development needs and the overall HRIS operating model.

Key accountabilities

Product Ownership & Governance

• Act as the functional owner for assigned Workday product areas and related HR technology capabilities within the agreed global HRIS landscape.
• Maintain the product vision, backlog, priorities and improvement roadmap in alignment with the Global HRIS strategy.
• Prioritise enhancements, defects and continuous improvement opportunities based on business value, user impact, risk and delivery capacity.
• Ensure product decisions align with global HR policies, process standards, data governance, security principles and the agreed HRIS architecture.
• Maintain appropriate primary and secondary product coverage across the team to support continuity when ownership rotates.

Functional Solution & Configuration

• Partner with Group and Regional HR stakeholders to understand needs, challenge requirements constructively and identify scalable solutions.
• Translate business requirements into clear functional specifications, process designs, acceptance criteria and configuration approaches.
• Evaluate solution options and balance global standardisation with legitimate local business or regulatory requirements.
• Lead or perform functional configuration for approved Workday enhancements and process changes.
• Assess cross-product, reporting, integration, security and data impacts before recommending changes.
• Maintain configuration documentation, solution decisions, functional specifications and operational knowledge materials.

Product Operations & Continuous Improvement

• Own functional resolution of incidents, defects and service requests within assigned product areas, including root-cause analysis and corrective action.
• Provide expert support for complex issues escalated from Regional HR, HR operations, IT or service-desk teams.
• Monitor recurring issues and user pain points and convert appropriate findings into backlog items or process improvements.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate HR processes through effective use of Workday and connected technologies.
• Identify and manage product technical debt and recurring process or system issues, proposing sustainable solutions.

Release, Testing & Change Management

• Assess functional impacts of Workday releases and planned system changes and identify required configuration, testing, documentation and communications.
• Coordinate functional testing, regression testing, user acceptance testing and business readiness for releases and enhancements.
• Ensure changes are appropriately reviewed, approved, tested, documented and communicated before production deployment.
• Validate post-release outcomes and coordinate resolution of defects or unexpected impacts.

Data, Security & Integrations

• Monitor data quality within assigned product areas and support controls that improve accuracy, completeness, consistency and timeliness.
• Partner with reporting and analytics colleagues to ensure product structures and data support reliable workforce reporting and insights.
• Support functional definition, testing and validation of integrations between Workday and connected business systems.
• Apply agreed security, access and segregation-of-duties principles and support access reviews, audit requests and remediation activities.
• Assess downstream reporting, integration and compliance impacts when product configuration, organisational structures or processes change.

Stakeholder & Delivery Partnership

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