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Altera · Remote · Austin, Texas, United States (Remote)

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Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Workday Functional Contractor to support the design, configuration, enhancement, and ongoing optimization of our Workday HCM ecosystem. This senior individual-contributor role partners with HR and business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical, scalable Workday solutions and helps maintain best-practice configurations across core modules.


Key Responsibilities

  • Gather and translate business requirements into well-documented Workday configuration solutions across HCM modules.
  • Configure and maintain business processes, security groups, calculated fields, and related Workday functionality supporting HR, Benefits, Talent, Compensation, Recruiting, and Security.
  • Partner with HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, Compensation, and other stakeholders to understand needs and recommend Workday-native solutions before pursuing customizations.
  • Support the administration and maintenance of the Workday security framework, including domain and business-process security policies, security groups, segregation-of-duties controls, and periodic access reviews.
  • Contribute functional expertise to complex initiatives, including organizational restructures, module rollouts, multi-country deployments, and merger or acquisition activities.
  • Develop and maintain configuration workbooks, design specifications, business-process maps, security matrices, and other functional documentation.
  • Troubleshoot complex functional and security issues, partnering with internal technical teams and external vendors as needed.
  • Support data integrity, compliance, audit readiness, release testing, and regression testing across Workday modules.
  • Stay current on Workday releases and evaluate relevant functionality and enhancements aligned with business needs.

Salary

The pay range below is for Bay Area, California only. Actual compensation may vary based on job location, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, training, and contract terms.


$107,500 - $145,000 USD


We use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants for the position. Applicants must be eligible for any required U.S. export authorizations.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on Workday HCM experience, including experience as a senior functional analyst, configuration specialist, or functional consultant.
  • Strong functional expertise in several Workday modules, such as:Core HCM, including business processes, organizations, and staffing modelsAdvanced CompensationBenefits AdministrationAbsence ManagementTalent and Performance ManagementRecruitingSecurity, including domain and business-process security and segregation of dutiesReporting, including advanced reporting, calculated fields, and dashboards
  • Experience supporting Workday implementations, module rollouts, major enhancements, or transformation projects.
  • Working knowledge of Workday integration and reporting tools, including EIB, Core Connectors, Studio, and BIRT.
  • Strong stakeholder-management and consulting skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with both business and technical audiences.
  • Experience with change management, Workday release testing, and regression-testing methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

Workday Pro certification in one or more of the following areas is preferred:

  • Core HCM
  • Advanced Compensation
  • Benefits
  • Absence Management
  • Talent and Performance
  • Recruiting
  • Security

Job Type:

Contract Employee (Fixed Term)

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location:

Austin, Texas, United States (Remote)

Additional Locations:

Posting Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.
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About Altera Altera: Accelerating Innovators Altera provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from cloud to edge, offering limitless AI possibilities. Our end-to-end broad portfolio of products including FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, System on Modules, SmartNICs and IPUs provide the flexibility to accelerate innovation. Altera is helping to shape the future through pioneering innovation that unlocks extraordinary possibilities for everyone on the planet.

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