Senior Workday HCM Lead — Implement &Optimize

Welltower™ Inc. (NYSE:WELL); Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Annual bonus

PTO and holidays

Employee stock purchase program

401(k) with profit sharing

Student debt program

Tuition assistance

Medical/dental/vision coverage

Professional growth

Job summary

Welltower is seeking a Workday HCM Functional Lead in Dallas to serve as a customer-facing expert across Core HCM, security, compensation, benefits, payroll, and recruiting. The role splits roughly 50/50 between delivering new implementation projects and ongoing production support, guiding go-lives and post-go-live troubleshooting.

You will lead requirements sessions, configure Workday, and ensure data integrity while driving adoption of best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, IS, or Business or related field
• 5+ years of hands-on Workday HCM functional configuration experience
• Deep Core HCM expertise: org structures, supervisory organizations, BPF, condition rules
• Hands-on configuration across Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Recruiting
• Strong knowledge of Workday security configuration (RBAC, policies)
• Experience with Workday business process framework, calculated fields, EIB loads
• Proficiency building and maintaining Workday reports and data source security
• Understanding of semi-annual Workday release cycle, testing, and documentation across tenants
• Experience in client-facing or multi-customer environments
• Experience providing post-go-live support: triage, troubleshooting, root-cound analysis

Responsibilities

• Serve as customer-facing Workday HCM expert across modules
• Lead requirements gathering and translate needs into scalable configurations
• Configure and test Workday across Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Recruiting
• Guide go-live and provide post-go-live support and defect resolution
• Maintain Workday security and support regression testing for releases
• Collaborate with IT and integration teams; maintain runbooks and docs

Skills

Workday HCM

Functional configuration

Requirements gathering

Client-facing

Security configuration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR, IS, or Business

Workday HCM Core certification (preferred)

Job description

Welltower is seeking a Workday HCM Functional Lead in Dallas to serve as a customer-facing expert across Core HCM, security, compensation, benefits, payroll, and recruiting. The role splits roughly 50/50 between delivering new implementation projects and ongoing production support, guiding go-lives and post-go-live troubleshooting.

You will lead requirements sessions, configure Workday, and ensure data integrity while driving adoption of best practices.