Lead, People Solutions (Workday Technical Lead)

Sony Pictures Entertainment; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 142,400 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Annual incentive

Job summary

Sony Pictures Entertainment is seeking a Lead, People Solutions (Workday Technical Lead) in Culver City, California. This role involves being the technical owner of the Workday platform and ensuring its scalability and compliance. The candidate should have extensive experience in Workday, strong leadership skills, and the ability to manage stakeholder relationships effectively.

The position includes responsibilities such as defining technical strategies, managing integrations, and ensuring operational excellence across HR technologies. The anticipated base salary for this role ranges from $142,400 to $178,000, based on qualifications and experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise technology experience, including 7+ years of hands-on Workday technical roles.
• Knowledge of security governance, audit controls, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience supporting enterprise people ecosystems and third-party vendor integrations.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall technical health and stability of the Workday platform.
• Lead root cause analysis and remediation for production issues.
• Define and maintain the People Technology architecture roadmap.

Skills

Workday Security

Workday Integrations

Workday Architecture

Stakeholder management

Enterprise architecture experience

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, HRIS, or related field

Tools

Workday Studio

MuleSoft

Boomi

Informatica

Job description

Lead, People Solutions (Workday Technical Lead)

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Lead, People Solutions (Workday Technical Lead) to serve as the technical owner and architect of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Workday platform and People Technology ecosystem.

This role is responsible for defining and executing the technical strategy, architecture, governance, security model, integration framework, and operational support model across Workday and related HR technologies. The Lead will act as the organization’s primary subject matter expert and technical authority for Workday Security, Integrations, Data Architecture, and Platform Optimization.

The ideal candidate combines deep Workday technical expertise with strong leadership, stakeholder management, and enterprise architecture experience. This individual will partner closely with HR, Payroll, Talent, Finance, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, and external service providers to ensure the People Technology landscape remains scalable, secure, compliant, and aligned with business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Ownership & Operational Excellence

• Own the overall technical health, stability, performance, and scalability of the Workday platform including governance of Workday security and integrations architecture.
• Establish and maintain operational support processes, SLAs, monitoring standards, and incident management procedures.
• Lead root cause analysis and remediation efforts for critical production issues and integration failures.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on platform reliability, automation, and operational efficiency.
• Manage technical debt and platform optimization opportunities across the People Technology landscape.
• Ensure compliance with internal audit, SOX, GDPR, data privacy, and enterprise security standards; conduct periodic security audits and risk assessments.
• Establish integration standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices.
• Provide technical oversight and governance for AMS teams, including developers, integration resources, and support personnel.

Enterprise People Technology Architecture

• Define and maintain the People Technology architecture roadmap aligned with organizational goals and digital transformation initiatives.
• Evaluate business requirements and recommend scalable, secure, and sustainable technology solutions.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture teams to align People Technology strategies with broader enterprise technology standards.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and solution governance activities.
• Assess technical impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities across People technology platforms.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, technical standards, integration inventories, and data flow documentation.

Experience & Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise technology experience, including 7+ years of hands‑on Workday technical roles.
• Strong expertise in Workday Security.
• Strong expertise in Workday Integrations (Workday Studio, EIB, Connectors, PECI/PICOF, APIs).
• Strong expertise in Workday Architecture.
• Strong understanding of Workday business processes and data architecture.
• Experience supporting enterprise people ecosystems and third‑party vendor integrations.
• Knowledge of security governance, audit controls, and compliance frameworks.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, HRIS, or related field.
• Workday certifications in Integration, Security, HCM, or related areas.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks and HR digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience with other HR/People Technologies like learning platforms (Cornerstone, etc.), recruiting platforms (Phenom, Greenhouse, etc.), survey platforms (Qualtrics, Perceptyx, etc.), skills platforms, case management platforms (ServiceNow, etc.), time & attendance platforms (UKG, Infor).
• Familiarity with middleware platforms such as MuleSoft, Boomi, or Informatica.
• Experience integrating Workday with identity management, payroll, benefits, finance, and analytics platforms.
• Exposure to Agile delivery methodologies and DevOps, ITSM practices.
• Experience working in global or multi‑region HR environments.

The anticipated base salary for this position is $142,400 to $178,000. This role may also qualify for annual incentive and/or comprehensive benefits. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of factors, including without limitation, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and if applicable, the location of the position.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.

SPE will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with applicable law.

To request an accommodation for purposes of participating in the hiring process, you may contact us at [e-mail].