Senior Workday System Analyst
About The Position
This role is part of Blue Origin’s corporate functions, providing centralized support across business units, functions, and locations. The Senior Workday System Analyst will join a small team supporting the technical development, configuration, and ongoing maintenance of the Workday system as the company advances its HR digital transformation and delivers new capabilities company-wide. The position reports to the Senior Manager, Software Development, Testing and Deployment. The role focuses on Workday Recruiting configuration and support, including business processes, reporting, integrations, and security. The analyst will lead Talent Acquisition implementation workstreams, build applications and automations using Workday Extend and Orchestrate, support recruiting-adjacent integrations, and provide production support. The position also includes training recruiters and hiring managers, maintaining system documentation and data governance materials, communicating technical tradeoffs, and recommending improvements based on current Workday features and talent acquisition practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Information Systems, Business, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of Workday experience, including at least 3 years configuring Workday Recruiting.
- Experience leading a Workday module through a full implementation lifecycle, from design and build through testing, cutover, and go-live.
- Hands-on expertise in business process design, condition rules, approval routing, notifications, and core Recruiting configuration.
- Experience with Workday Extend and Orchestrate, as well as reports, dashboards, and calculated fields.
- Experience configuring least-privilege security and validating changes through sandbox and proxy testing.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ownership mindset, curiosity, and transferable skills to learn new HR and ATS platforms quickly.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Nice To Haves
- Workday certification in Recruiting, HCM Core, Extend, or Integrations.
- Multiple end-to-end Workday deployments or re-implementations, including greenfield builds.
- Experience with other ATS or HR platforms, such as Greenhouse, iCIMS, Lever, SuccessFactors, or Oracle HCM, or enterprise systems such as Cornerstone.
- Advanced experience with Extend, Orchestrate, and integrations, including EIBs, Core Connectors, Studio, and REST/SOAP APIs.
- Experience with recruiting operations metrics, Workday’s semi-annual release cycle, and other Workday modules such as Core HCM, Compensation, Time, and Absence.
- Experience in a ticket-driven environment such as Jira or ServiceNow and on a lean team, with the ability to build trusted relationships with recruiters, hiring managers, and HR partners.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to gather requirements and configure Workday Recruiting across the hiring lifecycle, including requisitions, postings, candidate stages, screening questionnaires, assessments, interviews, offers, dispositioning, and handoff to onboarding.
- Design, build, and maintain business processes, condition rules, approval routing, and notifications that align with Talent Acquisition workflows and company policy.
- Evaluate stakeholder requests against best practices, scalability, and maintainability, favoring clean foundations over legacy workarounds.
- Build custom applications and automations with Workday Extend and Orchestrate to address feature gaps.
- Support and troubleshoot integrations with recruiting-adjacent systems, including job boards, background check and assessment vendors, and candidate communication tools, using EIBs, Core Connectors, Studio, and REST/SOAP APIs.
- Lead the Talent Acquisition workstream on configuration and implementation efforts, including tenant configuration, staffing model decisions, testing cycles, data conversion and validation, cutover, and post-go-live support, working with a deployment partner where applicable.
- Build and maintain Workday reports, dashboards, and calculated fields that provide visibility into pipeline health, time-to-fill, source effectiveness, and other hiring metrics.
- Manage security configuration using least-privilege access, validate changes through sandbox and proxy testing, and run regression testing for semi-annual Workday releases.
- Provide production support through Jira or ServiceNow by triaging, resolving, and documenting incidents to maintain data integrity.
- Train recruiters and hiring managers on Workday processes.
- Maintain configuration documentation, run books, and data dictionaries in coordination with HR data governance.
- Communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences, stay current on Workday features and talent acquisition practices, and propose improvements.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Basic and supplemental life insurance.
- Paid parental leave.
- Short- and long-term disability.
- 401(k) with company match of up to 5%.
- Education Support Program.
- Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- Paid time off of up to four weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours.
- Up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Depending on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on individual contributions or company results; bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
