Strategic HRIS & Workday Solutions Analyst

Socket.dev; Camden (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking an HRIS Business Analyst – HR Systems to serve as a strategic liaison between Human Resources, HRIS, IT, and business stakeholders, translating needs into scalable HR technology solutions.

You will lead requirements gathering, process analysis, testing, and implementation support across Workday and related HR technologies, driving improvements in efficiency, data quality, and user experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Information Systems, Business Administration, Information Technology, or related field experience.
• 4+ years of experience in HRIS, HR technology, business analysis, or a related systems role.
• Experience with Workday HCM strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience gathering and documenting business and functional requirements.
• Experience with business process mapping, workflow analysis, solution design, and process improvement.
• Experience supporting system enhancements, implementations, releases, testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Strong understanding of how changes may impact system configuration, reporting, integrations, security, and downstream applications.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and evaluate alternative solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and consultative skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Partner with HR and business stakeholders to understand business needs, pain points, risks, and desired outcomes.
• Lead requirements-gathering sessions and translate business needs into clear functional requirements, process flows, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Analyze current-state and future-state processes and recommend opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce manual effort, strengthen controls, and improve the employee and user experience.
• Challenge unclear or conflicting requirements and help stakeholders distinguish between a requested system change and the underlying business problem.
• Partner with HRIS functional and technical resources to design scalable Workday solutions aligned with business requirements and system capabilities.
• Evaluate the impact of proposed changes across Workday business processes, configuration, reporting, integrations, security, and connected systems.
• Develop and coordinate test scenarios, regression testing, and User Acceptance Testing for system enhancements, releases, and implementations.
• Support implementation planning, change readiness, end-user adoption, and post-production validation.
• Analyze complex system or process issues, perform root-cause analysis, and recommend sustainable solutions.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions and decision-making when stakeholders have competing priorities or requirements.
• Help prioritize system enhancements based on business value, complexity, risk, and organizational impact.
• Maintain clear documentation of business requirements, process flows, functional specifications, testing, and system changes.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Process mapping

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/IT/Business

Tools

Workday HCM

Job description

Socket.dev is seeking an HRIS Business Analyst – HR Systems to serve as a strategic liaison between Human Resources, HRIS, IT, and business stakeholders, translating needs into scalable HR technology solutions.

You will lead requirements gathering, process analysis, testing, and implementation support across Workday and related HR technologies, driving improvements in efficiency, data quality, and user experience.