Remote Lead Workday Compensation Engineer

Allstate Insurance Co.; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop and monitors

Monthly connectivity stipend

Job summary

Allstate is seeking a Lead Engineer to drive Workday Core and Advanced Compensation delivery, configuration, and optimization. You will mentor a team of Product Engineers and partner with Digital Product Managers to align compensation solutions with business goals.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in Workday Compensation, strong leadership, and experience in testing, security, and production support. This role emphasizes delivering business value through technology in a large enterprise setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Workday experience with Core Compensation and/or Advanced Compensation, Enterprise Interface Builder, reporting, dashboards, and calculated fields.
• Experience leading or mentoring technical teams.
• Strong understanding of compensation administration, salary planning, incentive programs, and Total Rewards processes.
• Experience gathering requirements, designing solutions, testing functionality, and supporting production environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, configuration, implementation, and ongoing optimization of Workday Core Compensation and Advanced Compensation, and related technology applications.
• Partner with Digital Product Manager(s) and related Digital Product Teams to prioritize and deliver solutions that align with compensation programs, policies, and business objectives.
• Provide technical input into product strategy, estimation, solution design, and delivery planning.
• Ensure solutions are aligned with Workday best practices, security requirements, and enterprise standards.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to simplify processes, improve user experience, and increase operational efficiency.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Engineers responsible for Workday Compensation while fostering engineering best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance on complex configuration challenges and platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with platform consultants, engineers, and cross-functional teams to ensure successful solution delivery.
• Track and improve key operational, quality, and delivery metrics and overall product health.
• Oversee testing activities, including functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing.

Skills

Workday Core/Advanced Compensation

Workday EIB

Workday Integration

Leadership / Mentoring

Requirements gathering

Job description

Allstate is seeking a Lead Engineer to drive Workday Core and Advanced Compensation delivery, configuration, and optimization. You will mentor a team of Product Engineers and partner with Digital Product Managers to align compensation solutions with business goals.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in Workday Compensation, strong leadership, and experience in testing, security, and production support. This role emphasizes delivering business value through technology in a large enterprise setting.