Manager — HR Information Systems, HR (HRIS)_Chennai_10 to 12 Years

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; Chennai; Sur place; INR 4 500 000 - 9 000 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Chennai seeks a Manager — HR Information Systems, HR, to own the Workday platform end to end. You will lead the HRIS team as senior authority worldwide, partner HRBPs, Group Rewards, HR Shared Services and Payroll, and govern releases and data security.

You will drive platform direction, governance, and audits while collaborating with partners and stakeholders across regions.

Qualifications

• Over 12–15+ years in HR information systems with hands-on Workday expertise.
• Experience leading an HRIS team for at least 3 years.
• Proven ownership of multiple Workday modules—Absence, Benefits and Talent.
• Global release governance experience (R1/R2) with feature-enablement decisions.
• Strong command of business process framework, calculated fields, EIB, reporting and security.
• Track record leading new entity onboarding end-to-end, including data migration and cutover.
• Strong HR knowledge to translate policy into system design.
• Multi-country governance experience and senior stakeholder management across regions.

Responsabilités

• Own HRIS strategy and roadmap across Absence, Benefits, and Talent modules.
• Oversee release governance for Workday R1/R2.
• Maintain system integrity and data governance across modules, including security and access controls.
• Lead demand and change governance forums and standard templates.
• Act as programme owner for new business unit onboarding.
• Own major incident governance and audit responses for HRIS.
• Manage relationships with Workday and implementation partners.

Connaissances

Workday expertise

HRIS team leadership

Release governance

Data governance

Security model

Cross-country governance

Stakeholder management

Description du poste

Job title : Manager — HR Information Systems, HR

Skill : HRIS

Experience Required : 10 to 12 Years

To own the Workday platform end to end — configuration, data integrity, security, release governance and continual improvement — and to lead the HRIS team as the senior functional and technical authority partnering HRBPs globally, Group Rewards, HR Shared Services and Payroll. The Manager sets platform direction, owns the release and change agenda, and is accountable for system integrity and the standards and templates the enterprise runs on.

Key responsibilities

• Own the HRIS strategy and roadmap across the Absence, Benefits and Talent modules; prioritise the enhancement pipeline by value, risk and effort and keep it aligned to the enterprise technology strategy.
• Own release governance for the half-yearly Workday releases (R1 and R2): make feature-enablement decisions aligned to policy and risk, set regression strategy, and hold go/no-go authority.
• Own system integrity and the data governance framework across all modules, including the security model and the segregation-of-duties controls.
• Own the demand and change governance forum (intake, prioritisation, change advisory board), and the standards, naming conventions and configuration templates the team builds to.
• Act as programme owner for new business unit onboarding — from requirements discovery through configuration, data migration, cutover and hypercare.
• Own major incident governance, root cause analysis sign-off, and the HRIS response to internal audit, external audit and control reviews.
• Manage the relationships with Workday and implementation partners, including support contracts, escalations and roadmap engagement.
• Lead, develop and resource the HRIS team (team leads and specialists); own capability build, cross-skilling, succession and the coverage model for the Singapore shift.
• Own the advisory partnership with HRBPs, Group Rewards, HR Shared Services and Payroll, translating policy and ways of working into system direction.
• Own the HRIS budget, licence position and productivity commitments.

Must-have skills and experience

• 12 - 15+ years in HR information systems, including deep hands-on Workday experience and at least 3 years leading an HRIS team or platform.
• Proven ownership of multiple Workday modules — Absence, Benefits and Talent — across configuration, security and reporting.
• Demonstrated ownership of global release governance (R1/R2), including feature-enablement decisions, regression strategy and go/no-go.
• Strong command of the business process framework, calculated fields, EIB, reporting and the security and
• Track record leading new entity or business unit onboarding end to end, including data migration, cutover and hypercare.
• Strong functional HR knowledge — able to translate HR policy and ways of working into system design.
• Multi-country governance experience and confident senior stakeholder management across regions.

Good-to-have skills and experience

• Workday certification(s) across one or more supported modules.
• PeopleSoft or other legacy HCM background.
• M&A, divestiture or large-scale business unit onboarding experience.
• Exposure to RPA or workflow automation strategy.