Senior Lead Software Engineer - Payroll
About The Position
The Senior Lead Software Engineer - Payroll serves as a functional steward of Employee Central Payroll, ensuring payroll configurations, calculation logic, and system integrations operate accurately and reliably. The role owns the configuration, testing, and support of systems that enable dependable payroll cycles, including payroll rules, schemas, wage types, and tax configurations. This position works at the intersection of technology and business operations, overseeing data flows among SuccessFactors Employee Central, payroll, time management systems, finance platforms, and external vendors. It partners with HR, Payroll Operations, Benefits, Tax, Finance, and IT stakeholders to translate technical decisions into practical solutions that support accurate payroll outcomes. This is a work-from-home position within the United States.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, accounting, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Seven or more years of experience supporting enterprise payroll systems, including direct, hands-on configuration responsibility.
- Demonstrated Employee Central Payroll configuration experience, or strong SAP ECC payroll configuration experience with the ability to apply it to Employee Central Payroll.
- Working knowledge of SAP BSI, including planning and applying tax authority maintenance and update cycles in partnership with Payroll and Tax.
- Deep U.S. payroll knowledge covering multi-state taxation, reciprocity, garnishments, unions, imputed income, retroactive pay, W-2 processing, third-party reconciliation, and quarter-end and year-end requirements.
- Deep U.S. timesheet knowledge, including non-exempt rules across states, FLSA rules, union support, and partnership with a payroll system.
- Experience troubleshooting payroll integrations and interface errors across connected systems.
- Ability to partner with business stakeholders and explain payroll outcomes clearly to non-technical audiences.
Nice To Haves
- SuccessFactors Employee Central experience, including data models, business rules, and point-to-point replication.
- SAP CATS configuration and support experience.
- Workforce Software time and attendance experience.
- Payroll experience in a large, multi-entity U.S. employer or shared services environment.
- Experience supporting payroll through a system migration, upgrade, or major transformation program.
Responsibilities
- Configure and maintain Employee Central Payroll and Workforce Software, including schemas, PCRs, wage types, payroll controls, off-cycle processing, and time configurations.
- Own U.S. payroll configuration for earnings, deductions, garnishments, retro pay, third-party remittances, and year-end processing.
- Maintain audit-ready documentation and support SOX and other compliance controls.
- Partner with Payroll Operations and Tax on SAP BSI, regulatory updates, and tax changes.
- Configure payroll rules, wage type processing, and tax models; troubleshoot calculation issues and implement fixes.
- Ensure compliance with changing tax and regulatory requirements.
- Support integrations between SuccessFactors Employee Central, Employee Central Payroll, Workforce Software, and SAP CATS.
- Manage payroll interfaces and vendor files for benefits, retirement, tax, garnishment, and finance processes.
- Resolve integration, monitoring, and file-processing issues with internal teams and vendors.
- Serve as payroll functional lead by translating requirements, reviewing designs, and guiding developers.
- Lead unit, integration, regression, year-end, acceptance, and parallel testing activities.
- Partner with HR, Payroll, Tax, Finance, and IT stakeholders to manage projects, incidents, enhancements, and delivery through ServiceNow, Jira, and Agile practices.
Benefits
- Comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, and Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks supporting physical, mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
- Bonus structure may include short-term incentives, long-term incentives, and/or sales compensation.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
