Senior Workday Payroll Architect

Lambda; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is building the world’s best AI cloud and seeks a Workday Payroll, Time Tracking & Absence Lead. You will own end-to-end configuration, from design through go-live, in a hybrid environment with in-office work 4 days per week in San Francisco or San Jose, and a Tuesday WFH day.

You will lead payroll configuration for US employees, coordinate with global payroll providers, and ensure accurate time tracking and compliance across regions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence modules in a global implementation.
• Configure US Payroll for Canada employees: tax, garnishments, and payroll accounting.
• Design and operate interfaces between Workday and international payroll providers.
• Configure Time Tracking for hourly and non-exempt staff with accurate time calculations and compliance.

Job description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU. If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.

Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco or San Jose office location 4 days per week; Lambda's designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.

Business Technology at Lambda builds and scales the internal systems that power our business. We partner across the company with Finance, GTM, Engineering, and People to implement tools, automate workflows, and ensure data flows securely and accurately. Our scope spans enterprise applications, integrations, data platform and analytics, compliance automation, and all things IT.

People Technology is the pillar that owns the systems every Lambda employee touches. We are in the middle of moving Lambda from Rippling to Workday as our HRIS, and payroll, time tracking, and absence are the workstreams where getting the details right matters most: every employee feels it on payday.

We are hiring a Workday Payroll, Time tracking Absence Lead to own these modules end to end, from implementation design through go-live and into steady-state operations. You will be our resident expert on how Workday calculates, accrues, and pays, for US employees running on Workday Payroll and for our international workforce running through Workday and our global payroll providers.

What You'll Do

• Implementation: Serve as the functional lead for Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence in our Workday implementation: drive design sessions, own configuration decisions, build and test the tenant alongside our implementation partner, and sign off on readiness for cutover, parallel testing, and hypercare.
• US Payroll Configuration: Configure and maintain Workday Payroll for US Canada employees: pay groups, earnings and deductions, pay component groups, federal, state, and local tax setup, garnishments, payroll accounting, and period-end and year-end processing (W-2s, quarterly filings) with our tax filing provider.
• International Payroll: Design and operate the flow between Workday and our international payroll providers (Workday Global Payroll Connect or PECI/PICOF-based integrations): payroll input files, results return, GL posting, and reconciliation for each country we operate in.
• Time Tracking: Configure Time Tracking for hourly and non-exempt populations, including work schedules, time entry codes, time calculations (overtime, meal and rest break compliance, shift di