Senior Engineer-Workforce Management

Invesco Ltd. • Houston, TX

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Engineer serves as the technical lead for Workforce Management (WFM) and Payroll integrations, defining solution architecture and guiding configuration and integration strategy. The role ensures secure, scalable, and compliant capabilities across global regions and partners with HR, Finance, Payroll, and Technology teams to deliver sustainable, cost-effective solutions. The position also works with the HR/Payroll product team to design effective and scalable system enhancements.

The role is part of a collaborative, globally focused HR Technology team responsible for Workforce Management and Payroll solutions, including Time Tracking, Absence Management, and Payroll integrations. The team designs scalable integrations, supports data quality, and aligns systems with regulatory and business requirements while shaping Workday capabilities through integrations, releases, and system enhancements.

The position leads Workday Time Tracking, Absence Management, and Payroll integration architecture and delivery. It translates complex pay rules and regional labor requirements into Workday configurations; governs payroll integrations and data quality; leads release impact assessments and regression strategies; and embeds compliance, security, auditability, and controls into solution designs. The role requires regular office attendance under Invesco’s workplace policy: as of October 1, 2025, employees are expected to spend at least four full days each week working in an Invesco office.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of Workday experience with strong expertise in Time Tracking, Absence Management, and multi-country Payroll PECI design.
• Hands-on experience with EIB, Core Connectors, Studio, Calculated Fields, and Workday Security.
• Experience with Workday Reporting for time-tracking, absence, and payroll functional areas, and Report-as-a-Service patterns.
• Deep knowledge of effective-dated HR data, retro pay impacts, time valuation, accruals, and eligibility logic.
• Experience with release management, tenant lifecycle governance, and regression testing.
• Strong documentation skills, including solution designs, data mappings, and workflow diagrams.

Nice To Haves

• Workday Pro or Partner certifications in Time, Absence, or Integrations.
• Payroll expertise across US FLSA, Canadian provincial rules, and EU working time directives.
• Background in SOX/internal controls and audit readiness.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the domain lead for Workday Time Tracking, Absence Management, and Payroll integrations.
• Act as the primary technical lead for HR/Payroll, third-party vendors, and implementation partners.
• Define target-state architecture, integration patterns (Core Connectors, EIB, Studio, Extend), and security models aligned to least-privilege principles.
• Govern PECI and outbound payroll integrations, including ADP, CloudPay, Alight, NGA, and local in-country vendors.
• Translate complex pay rules and region-specific labor requirements into Workday configuration, including time codes, accruals, eligibility rules, and time calculations.
• Perform gap analyses and author functional and technical specifications for new or enhanced business processes.
• Maintain system functionality and cross-functional process documentation; define configuration standards, development conventions, and operational playbooks for releases and incident management.
• Lead biannual Workday release impact assessments, regression strategies, and feature adoption planning for Workday Time Tracking, Absence Management, and Payroll integrations.
• Design PECI frameworks that address effective-dated logic, retroactivity, error handling, and reconciliation.
• Establish data quality rules and exception handling across HR, WFM, and Payroll systems.
• Partner with Data & Analytics to deliver audit-ready reporting using Workday Report Writer, Calculated Fields, Integrations, and Prism.
• Ensure solution designs comply with FLSA, local labor laws, union CBAs, and applicable global privacy and security standards, including GDPR, SOC, and SOX.
• Implement controls for segregation of duties, approvals, retro events, and adjustments.
• Maintain audit documentation, test evidence, and control artifacts.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Hybrid work schedule
• 401(k) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution
• Health and wellbeing benefits
• Parental leave benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed