Associate Director, Compensation Systems Architect
CSL
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: King of Prussia • Florida • Pennsylvania • United States
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About the role
- Serve as the primary Workday Compensation subject matter expert, providing hands‑on leadership for configuration, design recommendations, troubleshooting, and optimization of compensation and related Total Rewards functionality.
- Translate compensation operating needs into system requirements and scalable solutions, partnering with HR Systems/Technology to ensure high‑quality delivery of enhancements, fixes, and future‑state capabilities.
- Lead the technical and analytical execution for the Year‑End rewards/compensation cycle (e.g., salary review and related activities) including test support, configuration support, issue triage, reporting readiness, and post‑cycle stabilization.
- Build and maintain compensation analytics, dashboards, and decision support, ensuring leaders and stakeholders have timely, accurate insights to guide Total Rewards decisions and governance.
- Execute a roadmap of AI-enabled use cases across Total Rewards, including automation, insight generation, and process improvements that enhance accuracy, speed, and user experience.
- Apply data governance best practices to identify root causes of data/system issues, improve data quality and reliability, and strengthen confidence in compensation reporting and administration.
- Support evaluation and optimization of HR/Total Rewards technology investments, providing technical and analytical input on tool capability, value realization, and integration into the Total Rewards operating model.
- Partner with the Global Compensation Operations & Enablement Lead to support process optimization and automation by identifying opportunities, designing requirements, and enabling measurable improvements in efficiency and effectiveness.
- Provide ongoing collaboration and technical partnership with Compensation Delivery & Governance, Benefits, Executive Compensation, Performance, HR Operations, Payroll, and Finance to ensure solutions are aligned, adoptable, and operationally sustainable.
- Serve as a key liaison for compensation systems and data topics, communicating complex technical and analytical insights clearly to stakeholders to enable informed decisions and successful change adoption.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Human Resources, Technology, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in Total Rewards, Compensation Operations, and/or HR Systems roles.
- Required deep expertise in Workday compensation and incentive administration, data governance, and cross‑functional delivery.
- Demonstrated experience leading global processes, systems, and governance in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Proven ability to lead enterprise‑critical reward cycles (e.g., Year End rewards, incentive administration).
- Strong leadership experience with direct team accountability.
- Strategic thinking with strong execution discipline.
- Enterprise systems and process leadership.
- Risk management and governance mindset.
- Ability to influence across functions and regions without direct authority.
- Clear, confident communicator able to translate complexity into actionable direction.
- Continuous improvement and problem‑solving orientation.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
Workday compensationdata governancecompensation analyticsautomationprocess improvementsconfiguration supportreporting readinessissue triageincentive administrationTotal Rewards functionality
Soft Skills
leadershipstrategic thinkingexecution disciplineinfluencecommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationcontinuous improvementanalytical skillschange management