Workday Specialist VP

2755 Barclays Services Corpor; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Incentive award

Job summary

Barclays seeks a Workday Specialist VP to lead end-to-end technology development for defined HR value streams. You will partner with HR Journey Owners to craft technology roadmaps leveraging Workday, ServiceNow and other platforms, reporting to the HR CIO and influencing global delivery.

The role manages a matrix of resources, drives strategy, and ensures alignment with governance and risk controls across the HR function.

Qualifications

• Experience of training and implementation of changes within Workday.
• Extensive knowledge of business processes of Workday modules across Core HR.
• Experience using Workday HCM (employee lifecycle) and related modules.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor cross-functional teams in Workday deployments.
• Define software requirements and drive technical direction for HR value streams.
• Collaborate with HR leaders and stakeholders to deliver Workday-based solutions.

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
• Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements. If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Barclays Values and Mindset

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Workday Specialist VP – Barclays

Join us as a Workday Specialist VP at Barclays, where you will lead the end-to-end technology development for defined HR Value Streams / Journeys, within the Global HR Technology service provision. You will partner with HR Journey Owners to pursue a technology roadmap, which fully exploits our investment in Workday, ServiceNow and other supporting platforms. The role will be a key face-off into the HR Colleague Experience Team, in support of our ongoing transition to an Agile Value / Journey aligned delivery model. Reporting locally to the HR CIO and with a matrix line into the Global Workday Platform Owner, the role will lead a global pool of resources on a matrix basis.

Key Success Criteria for the Role

• Experience of training and implementation of changes within Workday
• Extensive knowledge of business processes of Workday modules across Core HR
• Extensive knowledge and experience with Workday Core (core components of the system)
• Experience using Workday HCM (employee lifecycle)
• Talent development experience
• Some other highly valued skills may include: Workday accreditations/certificates Workday Pro accreditation

This role is based in Whippany, NJ.

Salary

Minimum Salary: $170,000 Maximum Salary: $230,000. The minimum and maximum salary information above includes only base salary. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Benefits

Barclays employees are eligible for a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and paid leave for qualifying circumstances. This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Company Culture

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.