Workday Solution Specialist

Location: Remote

Division: Information Technology

About The Salvation Army

For more than 130 years, The Salvation Army (TSA) has had the privilege of serving vulnerable people in communities across Canada and Bermuda. Last year, we helped over 2 million people, providing necessities of life such as food, clothing, and shelter. And our work goes well beyond that to including supporting people through unemployment, loneliness, finding church community, and responding to family challenges. We continually adapt to meet emerging needs.

These are exciting times at The Salvation Army as we launch a significant digital and business transformation. We are in the midst of revolutionizing our core capabilities to maximize service and mission outcomes. This will include an integrated platform for relationship and people management, learning, intranet and data warehouse. In order to achieve all this, we are now recruiting for a Workday Solution Specialist to support our HR Technology Team.

The Solution Specialist, Workday is responsible for providing leadership and expertise in the architecture, development, intake, communication, and deployment of the Workday solution and related components such as integration, security, system customization, and user adoption. This role will help build, coach and mentor the HR Technology team. They also influence and collaborate across the enterprise, driving the strategic direction for Workday capabilities, enablement, and adoption within the organization.

What you will be doing:

Strategy and Planning:

• Lead Workday architecture and align it with organizational capability needs.

• Act as Workday expert, advocating for solution adoption across departments.

• Collaborate with enterprise architecture teams to align Workday with strategic goals.

Solution Delivery:

• Lead Workday implementation and enhancement using cloud-based technologies.

• Ensure project milestones are met within budget and aligned with technical designs.

• Liaise between business and technical teams to ensure Workday meets organizational needs.

• Assess cross-functional project impacts on various modules and suggest optimized implementation methods.

Organization Capability Building:

• Promote strategic direction and adoption of Workday capabilities across the enterprise.

• Foster relationships with HR, IT, and business leaders to ensure Workday success.

• Maintain and communicate current and future Workday architecture plans.

Governance:

• Ensure projects comply with Workday architecture standards.

• Identify and mitigate risks in technical designs and implementations.

• Review and sign off on all Workday-related designs and promote system efficiency.

What you bring to the table

• Extensive experience leading maintenance and continuous improvement Workday modules: HCM, Compensation, Recruiting, Benefits, Performance, Absence, Scheduling, Time Tracking, Learning, Payroll and Absence in complex enterprise settings.

• Strong project management skills and proven vendor management abilities.

• Critical thinking, analytical, and quantitative skills with the ability to analyze data for key trends

• Proven experience in effectively working with both business and technical teams on HR Information Technology projects.

• Excellent people leadership to engage and oversee a team of technology professionals

• Proven ability to navigate in sometimes complex and/or ambiguous situations.

• Proven ability to identify, influence and drive organizational change.

• Strong understanding of human capital and organizational change management principles, practices, and procedures

• Demonstrated ability to make recommendations to senior management and influence business decisions.

Compensation:

The salary range for this position is $113,343 (mid.) to $136,011 (max). Placement in the salary range will be based on factors such as market conditions, internal equity, and candidate experience, skills, and qualifications relevant to the role.

How We Hire:

We are committed to creating a workplace where people experience meaningful work, a sense of hope and optimism, an environment of trust, and inspired results. If this sounds like an environment in which you would like to work, apply here today!

We embrace equity, diversity, justice, inclusion and belonging and we're committed to building a team that represents many backgrounds, perspectives and skills, representative of the communities we serve. The more inclusive we are, the better our work and workplace will be. The Salvation Army will provide reasonable accommodation upon request. Please let us know if you have a need for any accommodation.

We thank all applicants and will contact candidates selected for next steps. Internal Applicants are encouraged to notify their current supervisor when applying for a new position within The Salvation Army.