Senior Workday HRIS Lead - Payroll & Time Tracking

Devon Energy Corporation; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Devon Energy is seeking a Senior HRIS Professional to join a small HRIS team in Houston, TX. You will own Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence configuration, security administration, and reporting, ensuring alignment with payroll practices and compliance.

You will partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, and IT to optimize Workday solutions, develop reports, and support integrations. A strong Workday background and problem-solving skills are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of hands-on Workday configuration experience is required.
• Demonstrated Workday configuration and production-support experience in Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence is required.
• Experience configuring Workday business processes, calculated fields, condition rules, eligibility rules, and related functional frameworks is required.
• Experience administering Workday functional security, including security groups, domain security, and business process security, is required.
• Experience developing and maintaining Workday custom reports and troubleshooting report results is required.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a primary Workday functional resource for Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence, providing hands-on configuration, administration, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Configures and maintains Workday functionality, including business processes, eligibility rules, validation and condition rules, calculated fields, time calculations, time-entry rules, absence plans, accruals, payroll-related configurations, notifications, and related organizational structures.
• Partners with Payroll and HR stakeholders to evaluate business requirements and translate them into effective, scalable, and supportable Workday solutions.
• Provides functional support for payroll processing, time-entry activities, absence administration, year-end activities, and other recurring business cycles.
• Investigates and resolves Workday production issues, identifies root causes, evaluates downstream impacts, and implements sustainable solutions.
• Configures and maintains Workday security for assigned functional areas, including security groups, domain security policies, business process security policies, and role-based access.
• Performs periodic security reviews and supports internal and external audit requests to help ensure appropriate access to sensitive employee and payroll information.
• Develops and maintains Workday reports, including custom and advanced reports, calculated fields, dashboards, and scheduled report distributions.
• Works with stakeholders to understand reporting requirements and delivers accurate, actionable data while maintaining appropriate data security and governance.
• Performs initial troubleshooting of Workday integrations and data feeds, including reviewing integration events, error messages, input and output files, and business process dependencies.
• Supports basic integrations and data loads using tools such as Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) and coordinates more complex integration issues with internal technical resources, vendors, or consultants.
• Supports Workday releases, feature adoption, regression testing, and ongoing tenant management. Reviews release notes and recommends relevant features or enhancements for Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence.
• Develops test plans and test scenarios; coordinates and performs unit, system, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Participates in the planning, design, configuration, testing, implementation, and post-production support of Workday projects and enhancements.
• Maintains system documentation, configuration workbooks, process flows, test scripts, support procedures, and knowledge-base materials.
• Monitors data quality and performs audits to identify and correct configuration, transaction, security, and data-integrity issues.
• Identifies opportunities to improve and simplify HR and payroll processes through Workday configuration, automation, standardization, and adoption of delivered functionality.
• Provides guidance and training to HR, Payroll, managers, employees, and other system users regarding Workday functionality and processes.
• Collaborates closely with other members of the three-person HRIS team, shares knowledge, provides backup support, and assists with broader Workday and HR technology priorities as needed.

Skills

Workday Payroll

Workday Time Tracking

Workday Absence

Workday Security Administration

Workday Reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

EIBs

Job description

Devon Energy is seeking a Senior HRIS Professional to join a small HRIS team in Houston, TX. You will own Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence configuration, security administration, and reporting, ensuring alignment with payroll practices and compliance.

You will partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, and IT to optimize Workday solutions, develop reports, and support integrations. A strong Workday background and problem-solving skills are essential for success in this role.