Senior HRIS Professional
- Location
- Houston, TX
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
- H-1B history
- 1 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
Skills
About this role
At Devon, we will offer you a career full of energy and unmatched opportunities to solve today’s greatest challenges. Innovation, creative problem-solving and positive change happen when people step out of their comfort zone and think differently. Our values, workplace practices, wellness programs, benefits and compensation are aimed at helping employees manage their unique personal life and care for their families so they can focus on contributing to the fullest.
Job Summary
The Senior HRIS Professional is a hands-on member of a three-person HRIS team responsible for the ongoing configuration, administration, optimization, and production support of Workday. This role primarily supports **Workday Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence**, ensuring that system functionality aligns with business requirements, payroll practices, compliance obligations, and the employee experience. The Senior HRIS Professional partners with Payroll, Human Resources, Finance, IT, and other stakeholders to configure Workday, administer functional security, develop reports, resolve production issues, and support integrations. The successful candidate combines deep Workday functional expertise with strong analytical, consulting, and problem-solving skills and is comfortable balancing day-to-day support with projects and continuous improvement initiatives. Responsibilities: - Serves as a primary Workday functional resource for **Payroll, Time Tracking, and Absence**, providing hands-on configuration, administration, troubleshooting, and production support. - Configures and maintains Workday functionality, including business processes, eligibility rules, validation and condition rules, calculated fields, time calculations, time-entry rules, absence plans, accruals, payroll-related configurations, notifications, and related organizational structures. - Partners with Payroll and HR stakeholders to evaluate business requirements and translate them into effective, scalable, and supportable Workday solutions. - Provides functional support for payroll processing, time-entry activities, absence administration, year-end activities, and other recurring business cycles. - Investigates and resolves Workday production issues, identifies root causes, evaluates downstream impacts, and implements sustainable solutions. - Configures and maintains Workday security for assigned functional areas, including security groups, domain security policies, business process security policies, and role-based access. - Performs periodic security reviews and supports internal and external audit requests to help ensure appropriate access to sensitive employee and payroll information. - Develops and maintains Workday reports, including custom and advanced reports, calculated fields, dashboards, and scheduled report distributions. - Works with stakeholders to understand reporting requirements and delivers accurate, actionable data while maintaining appropriate data security and governance. - Performs initial troubleshooting of Workday integrations and data feeds, including reviewing integration events, error messages, input and output files, and business process dependencies. - Supports basic integrations and data loads using tools such as Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) and coordinates more complex integration issues with internal technical resources,