Senior HR Tech Analyst – Workday Compensation

Toyota Deutschland GmbH; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Toyota Deutschland GmbH in Plano, TX seeks an Advanced Compensation – Senior HR Technical Analyst to lead hands-on technical work for the Workday compensation ecosystem, ensuring readiness for annual and off-cycle events and maturing Job Catalog and Job Profile capabilities.

Reporting to HR Technology Manager, you translate business needs into clear technical requirements, partner with configuration and integration teams, and drive reliable execution with strong attention to data privacy and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in HR Technology or HRIS.
• Experience supporting or leading annual compensation cycles and/or off-cycle compensation changes in an HRIS environment.
• Gathering requirements, writing user stories or functional requirements, supporting testing, and partnering with technical teams through delivery.
• Strong analytical skills, including data validation, issue investigation, and root-cause analysis.
• Proven ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences and produce strong documentation.
• Working understanding of data privacy and access concepts for sensitive employee and compensation data.

Responsibilities

• Keep compensation cycles running for salary + hourly: own end-to-end technical readiness for annual, mid-cycle, hourly events, and off-cycle compensation changes; ensure stable integrations and clean data flows across Workday and downstream systems.
• Operational excellence: lead issue resolution, root-cause analysis, and defect prevention; establish regression planning, validation activities, and monitoring to improve reliability over time.
• Drive Job Catalog maturity & Job Profile data expansion: steward job architecture data; ensure Job Profiles are accurate, complete, and structured to support analytics, career architecture, skills frameworks, and compensation modeling; define data governance rules, adoption and audit for business objects within the process.
• Technical analysis and solution leadership: serve as the lead analyst for Advanced Compensation, helping define priorities, analyze business needs, translate requirements into technical documentation, and partner with Workday configuration and integration teams to support delivery without directly owning configuration work.
• Technical & data excellence: ensure design patterns align with enterprise standards and Workday best practices; assess upstream/downstream impacts; partner with data and reporting teams to ensure compensation and job data are accurate, timely, and usable.
• Change & release management: coordinate testing cycles, release readiness, communications, and training support for impacted users; identify risks and drive mitigation and scenario planning.

Skills

Workday expertise

HRIS

Data analysis

Technical documentation

Communication

Tools

Workday

HRIS systems

Job description

Toyota Deutschland GmbH in Plano, TX seeks an Advanced Compensation – Senior HR Technical Analyst to lead hands-on technical work for the Workday compensation ecosystem, ensuring readiness for annual and off-cycle events and maturing Job Catalog and Job Profile capabilities.

Reporting to HR Technology Manager, you translate business needs into clear technical requirements, partner with configuration and integration teams, and drive reliable execution with strong attention to data privacy and