Lead Enterprise Applications Analyst

Avalara • UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

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About The Position

This role serves as a senior technical leader responsible for designing, configuring, and optimizing Workday solutions, with a primary focus on Workday Recruiting and its integration with the broader recruiting technology ecosystem. This individual analyzes complex talent acquisition challenges and translates them into scalable, efficient system solutions. As a senior-level role, this position owns end-to-end solution design, drives system strategy, and leads cross-functional initiatives, ensuring Workday Recruiting capabilities along with integrated tools such as Paradox, BrightHire, and HiredScore are effectively leveraged to support evolving talent acquisition and business strategies. The role partners closely with Talent Acquisition, HR, IT, and external vendors to deliver high-impact, candidate- and recruiter-centric solutions.

How This Role Elevates Avalara
Team Impact: Raises the capability of the People Technology function by introducing scalable recruiting system design, improving configuration quality, and mentoring others to operate at a higher technical and analytical standard.
Business Impact: Enables faster, more accurate hiring decisions by reducing manual recruiting processes, improving candidate data integrity, and embedding automation and AI-driven screening/scheduling into core talent acquisition workflows.
Customer (Candidate & Recruiter) Impact: Improves candidate and recruiter experience by simplifying the hiring process, increasing transparency in interviewing and evaluation, and delivering reliable, intuitive Workday Recruiting solutions integrated with best-in-class recruiting tools.
By strengthening the foundation of People Technology, this role directly improves time-to-hire, quality of hire, decision quality, and operational scale across the organization.

Requirements

• B.S. in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering
• 10+ years of experience in HRIS, Talent Acquisition Technology, or enterprise systems roles
• 5+ years of hands-on Workday configuration experience, with deep expertise in Workday Recruiting
• Demonstrated expertise in end-to-end recruiting process design: sourcing, candidate management, interview scheduling, offers, and onboarding handoff
• Experience analyzing complex talent acquisition problems and delivering scalable system solutions
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders
• Strong understanding of end-to-end recruiting processes, candidate data structures, and system integrations

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with Paradox, BrightHire, and/or HiredScore, including integration with Workday Recruiting
• Experience evaluating, implementing, or optimizing AI-driven recruiting technologies
• Familiarity with recruiting compliance and data privacy considerations across integrated third-party platforms

Responsibilities

• Own Workday Recruiting solution design: Deliver scalable, maintainable system configurations across sourcing, candidate management, interview scheduling, offer management, and onboarding handoff that reduce complexity and enable global consistency.
• Design and manage recruiting technology integrations: Architect and optimize integrations between Workday Recruiting and third-party tools such as Paradox (conversational AI/chatbot sourcing and scheduling), BrightHire (interview intelligence), and HiredScore (AI-driven candidate matching and prioritization), ensuring seamless data flow and a unified recruiter/candidate experience.
• Translate complex business problems into system solutions: Identify gaps, inefficiencies, and risks in current recruiting processes and implement automated solutions that improve speed, accuracy, and scalability.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives: Drive large-scale enhancements and programs across Talent Acquisition, HR, IT, and external vendors, ensuring alignment, execution quality, and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure system quality and reliability: Own system testing strategy and release readiness for Workday Recruiting and connected tools, delivering defect-free deployments that meet business requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement and simplification: Reduce manual recruiting work, eliminate redundant processes, and standardize configurations to improve operational efficiency and maintainability.
• Serve as a technical and functional leader: Act as the primary escalation point for complex recruiting system issues and guide stakeholders toward optimal solutions based on best practices and system capabilities.
• Influence the People Technology roadmap: Identify and prioritize enhancements that drive measurable business value, including adoption of new Workday Recruiting capabilities and emerging recruiting AI tools.

Benefits

• In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
• Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
• Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior