Staff HRIS Analyst, People Technology - Workday · GitLab

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:49:12 GMT
Engineering

GitLab · Remote, US · remote

As a Staff Human Resources Information Systems Analyst, People Technology - Workday, you'll own the HRIS product roadmap, drive system evolution, and build scalable solutions that reduce friction and improve reliability, usability, and insight across the People technology landscape.

Key responsibilities include:

Owning the HRIS product roadmap, proactively identifying gaps, championing improvements, and driving system evolution that reduces friction and enables scale across People operations.

Pushing past surface-level requests to diagnose root needs, challenge assumptions, and co-design solutions that are durable, efficient, and built to last.

Leading Workday configuration, release readiness, and testing for annual People programs and system updates to support on-time launches and smoother releases.

Building and governing integrations across the People technology ecosystem, including troubleshooting issues and improving system reliability and uptime.

Defining and enforcing security and access governance practices across People systems, navigating SOX ITGC requirements with fluency.

Creating reports, dashboards, and analyses that help stakeholders make faster, more informed decisions with clearer and more reliable people data.

Driving mass data changes, policy rollouts, and system updates with careful testing and strong attention to detail.

Elevating system capability across the organization, enabling users and building toward a self-sufficient workforce that gets the most from the tools available to them.

To succeed in this role, you'll bring:

Deep, hands-on Workday expertise across HCM, compensation, benefits, time tracking, talent, performance, and security.

An AI-forward approach to people technology, actively experimenting with and applying AI tools to automate workflows, accelerate analysis, and eliminate manual work.

Experience building and scaling people technology in a public company environment with working knowledge of SOX ITGC requirements.

A product ownership mindset, including defining problems, evaluating tradeoffs, and owning outcomes.

Strong integration experience, including Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) and related Workday ecosystem tools.

Strong communication skills, with the ability to turn complex system logic into clear requirements, decisions, and stakeholder updates.

Sound judgment in assessing business impact, downstream effects, and change management implications when designing system changes.

Consulting instincts and presence, leading design discussions, navigating ambiguity, and earning trust as the person stakeholders come to when they need a true thought partner.