Director, Payroll Applications & Technology - 1662

aKube; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Zohorecruit seeks a Director of Payroll Applications & Technology for Culver City, CA. Hybrid work arrangement (3-4 days onsite) with a 5‑month duration ending 2027‑03‑26; rate up to $100/hr on W2. Must have 10+ years in payroll systems, HRIS, or workforce management and strong leadership experience.

The role focuses on strategy, reliability, and modernization of payroll platforms, ensuring end-to-end payroll data integrity and secure integrations across US and Canadian requirements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in payroll systems, HRIS, workforce management, payroll technology, or related enterprise applications.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, technical health, operating model, and roadmap for payroll and workforce management applications.
• Lead modernization efforts focused on reliability, automation, observability, analytics, security, and user experience.
• Establish standards for application configuration, integrations, reporting, automation, security, and controls.
• Ensure payroll-related integrations and data flows are reliable, documented, monitored, and supportable.
• Lead technical investigation and resolution of complex payroll, timekeeping, integration, data, calculation, access, and financial posting issues.
• Drive critical incidents through containment, root-cause analysis, permanent resolution, validation, and preventive action.
• Lead payroll technology implementations, releases, cutovers, go-lives, and stabilization activities.
• Build and develop a strong payroll technology team through coaching, cross-training, documentation, and succession planning.
• Manage vendors, contracts, statements of work, service levels, budgets, and delivery commitments.
• Partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, Security, Audit, integration teams, and other business stakeholders.
• Maintain technical documentation, testing evidence, support procedures, runbooks, change controls, and audit-ready materials.
• Ensure payroll technology solutions meet payroll, tax, security, privacy, SOX, and audit requirements.

Skills

Payroll systems

HRIS

Workforce management

Payroll technology

Technical leadership

Vendor management

Budget management

Communication to leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

SQL

APIs

Secure file transfers

Data validation

Testing

Releases/Cutovers

Stabilization

Job description

Director, Payroll Applications & Technology - 1662

Culver City, United States | Posted on 10/06/2026

Onsite/ Hybrid/ Remote: Hybrid (3-4 days a week onsite) - No Flex in this

Duration: 5 Months (End date: 0 3/26/2027)

Rate Range: Upto $100/hr on W2

Work Authorization: GC, USC, All valid EADs except H1B, OPT, CPT

Must Have:

• 10+ years of experience in payroll systems, HRIS, workforce management, payroll technology, or related enterprise applications.
  
• Hands-on experience configuring, administering, troubleshooting, or implementing enterprise payroll or workforce management platforms.
  
• Strong end-to-end payroll knowledge, including Hours-to-Gross, Gross-to-Net, payroll controls, integrations, and U.S. and Canadian payroll requirements.
  
• Experience leading complex production incidents, root-cause analysis, and technical resolution across applications, integrations, and data.
  
• Experience with integrations, APIs, secure file transfers, SQL, data validation, testing, releases, cutovers, and stabilization.
  
• Experience leading technical teams, contractors, managed service providers, and vendors.
  
• Experience managing technology budgets, vendor performance, and business-critical application environments.
  

Responsibilities:

• Own the strategy, technical health, operating model, and roadmap for payroll and workforce management applications.
  
• Lead modernization efforts focused on reliability, automation, observability, analytics, security, and user experience.
  
• Establish standards for application configuration, integrations, reporting, automation, security, and controls.
  
• Ensure payroll-related integrations and data flows are reliable, documented, monitored, and supportable.
  
• Lead technical investigation and resolution of complex payroll, timekeeping, integration, data, calculation, access, and financial posting issues.
  
• Drive critical incidents through containment, root-cause analysis, permanent resolution, validation, and preventive action.
  
• Lead payroll technology implementations, releases, cutovers, go-lives, and stabilization activities.
  
• Build and develop a strong payroll technology team through coaching, cross-training, documentation, and succession planning.
  
• Manage vendors, contracts, statements of work, service levels, budgets, and delivery commitments.
  
• Partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, Security, Audit, integration teams, and other business stakeholders.
  
• Maintain technical documentation, testing evidence, support procedures, runbooks, change controls, and audit-ready materials.
  
• Ensure payroll technology solutions meet payroll, tax, security, privacy, SOX, and audit requirements.
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience.
  
• Strong experience supporting business-critical payroll or workforce management applications.
  
• Proven experience leading technical teams and complex enterprise application environments.
  
• Strong knowledge of payroll integrations, application support, troubleshooting, testing, and production operations.
  
• Ability to communicate technical issues, risks, priorities, and decisions to senior leadership.
  

Nice to Have:

• Hands-on experience with Infor WFM.
  
• Hands-on experience with UKG Payroll.
  
• Experience with both Infor WFM and UKG Payroll.
  
• Workday Core HCM and Compensation experience.
  
• SAP Finance experience.
  
• Cognos, Power BI, SQL, advanced Excel, or similar reporting and analytics tools.
  
• Experience supporting complex U.S. and Canadian payroll environments.
  
• Experience with union and non-union payroll populations.
  
• Knowledge of entertainment-industry collective bargaining agreements.
  
• Experience with payroll technology migrations, implementations, and large-scale go-lives.
  
• Experience using automation, scripting, monitoring, analytics, or AI-enabled tools.
  
• Agile, Scrum, ITIL, project management, payroll, or relevant platform certifications.