Director, Payroll Tech & Applications — Automation & Reliability

aKube; Culver City (CA); Hybrid; 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

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.