Solution Architect - Global Payroll And EUPT

Vallum Associates; Old Warren; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Vallum Associates in Reading, UK, seeks a Solution Architect for Global Payroll and EUPT. The contract role focuses on designing enterprise payroll solutions across countries, integrating Workday with external providers, and ensuring GDPR-compliant governance.

You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, define global payroll templates, support transformation programmes, and enable pay transparency reporting across European markets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Deep payroll domain expertise across multiple countries and jurisdictions.
• Experience with payroll transformation programmes and vendor consolidation.
• Experience with Workday HCM, data integration and regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver enterprise-scale payroll solutions across multiple countries.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to communicate complex technical concepts clearly.
• Define global payroll templates and operating models with country deviations.
• Architect secure payroll integrations and data flows with external providers.
• Ensure GDPR compliance, governance and traceability for payroll data.

Skills

Payroll domain

Workday HCM

Workday integration

Data governance

GDPR compliance

EU Pay Transparency

Tools

Workday Prism

Workday reporting

SFTP

Encryption

Job description

The Role: Solution Architect - Global Payroll and EUPT

Location: Reading, UK

Position Type: Contract Inside IR35

Remote work option Available: 3- Days Work from Office

Job Description:

Essential Experience

• Proven experience (5yrs +) designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions across platforms, products, or domains.
• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical peers and stakeholders alike.
• Payroll Domain Expertise
• Proven experience designing and delivering global payroll solutions across multiple countries, payroll providers and legislative jurisdictions.
• Deep understanding of end-to-end payroll processes including gross-to-net calculations, taxation, statutory deductions, pensions, benefits, payroll controls and reconciliation.
• Experience defining global payroll templates, common payroll operating models and management of country-specific deviations.
• Experience with payroll transformation programmes involving payroll vendor consolidation, platform replacement or country migrations.
• Experience designing payroll finance integrations including payroll journals, costing, accruals, reconciliation and General Ledger posting.
• EU Pay Transparency & Reward Expertise
• Strong understanding of EU Pay Transparency Directive requirements, including pay gap reporting, employee right-to-information requests and regulatory disclosure obligations.
• Experience designing solutions supporting pay equity analysis, compensation reporting and transparency reporting across multiple European markets.
• Ability to model and govern reward, compensation, payroll, benefits and workforce data required for EUPT reporting.
• Experience supporting complex reporting requirements spanning multiple countries, legal entities and regulatory frameworks.

Workday & P&C Technology Expertise

• Experience architecting solutions using Workday HCM, Workday Compensation and Workday reporting capabilities.
• Experience with Workday Prism and enterprise data hub patterns for consolidating payroll, HCM, reward and workforce data.
• Experience designing solutions integrating Workday with multiple external payroll providers and non-Workday HR platforms.

Integration & Data Architecture

• Experience designing secure payroll integration architectures using SFTP, encryption, managed file transfer and batch processing patterns.
• Strong knowledge of payroll file ingestion, transformation, standardization and harmonization processes across multiple payroll vendors.

Security, Compliance & Governance

• Strong understanding of GDPR, payroll data security, data retention and audit requirements.
• Experience designing solutions handling highly sensitive colleague payroll and compensation information with appropriate security controls and segregation of duties.
• Experience establishing data quality, governance and traceability controls for regulatory reporting solutions.

Preferred Payroll Experience

• Delivered enterprise Cloud Pay payroll transformations within a large multinational retailer.
• Experience working with multiple European payroll providers and payroll outsourcing partners