Guardian Life

Risk

• Serve as the senior technical authority across: Core HCM, Position Management & Job Management, Benefits, Compensation & Advanced Compensation, Recruiting, Talent Management, Workday Learning, Payroll, Time Tracking & Absence Security, Integrations (EIB, Core Connectors, APIs, Studio fundamentals)
• Advise HRIT engineers on complex configuration design, new releases, AI agents and new functionality
• Validate cross-module impacts, support troubleshooting of high-severity issues, and mentor team members on advanced configuration practices
• Configure complex cross-domain business processes
• Design and implement advanced security groups and domain policies
• Support advanced compensation cycle setup
• Configure complex Position Management structures
• Build enterprise-impact calculated fields
• Support integration troubleshooting
• Create and Maintain Tenant Management Plan
• Oversee all Workday tenants (Production, Sandbox, Dev, Preview)
• Enforce Dev → Test → Prod migration controls
• Approve production configuration migrations
• Oversee release preview cycles
• Maintain production access governance
• Support emergency change management
• Lead governance processes, including prioritization of enhancements, upgrades and releases
• Establish and enforce technical and application change management standards, ensuring compliance with documentation and audit requirements
• Maintain enterprise Workday security model
• Monitor and remediate segregation of duties (SOD) conflicts
• Conduct periodic security reviews
• Review elevated access requests
• Chair Workday Change Advisory Board (CAB) for Intake and Demand

Workday Platform & Governance Owner, Workday SME

Payroll

• Own the architectural and configuration guardrails for Payroll, Time, and Absence, coordinating execution
• Establish and maintain standards for configuration, data integrity, and system governance
• Lead configuration of payroll elements, time tracking rules, and absence plans with a focus on scalability
• Ensure Workday Payroll configurations support accurate and compliant payroll processing
• Act as the primary technical advisor and decision partner to Payroll, HR, and IT stakeholders

Workday Technical Lead, Payroll, Time & Absence

Analyst

• Independently analyze and evaluate compensation programs, including base pay and incentive plans, ensuring internal equity, market competitiveness, and regulatory compliance
• Conduct job evaluations and market pricing using established methodologies and external survey data; provide data-driven recommendations
• Serve as a subject-matter resource to HR partners and leaders on compensation policies, guidelines, and pay decisions
• Solve complex compensation issues and recommend improvements by applying seasoned judgment and new perspectives
• Lead or contribute to cross-functional compensation projects impacting multiple business units

Senior Analyst, Compensation Business Partner

Consultant

• Work in partnership with Clinical and Vocational Leaders to provide coaching
• Serve as clinical subject matter expert in all lines of business and products
• Assist in ensuring fair and accurate assessments of medically supported functional abilities
• Cultivate talent and foster an environment of continuous learning
• Promote organizational excellence by demonstrating leadership and problem-solving behaviors
• Drive performance and ensure team meets their goals

Senior RN Clinical Consultant, Disability Appeals

Underwriter

• Oversee and evolve our newly centralized Rating and Quoting operations across multiple product lines
• Set strategy, drive consistency, and enable high‑performing teams to deliver accurate, timely, and competitive proposals for mid‑ to large‑size groups
• Collaborate with and set process for people leaders and their teams that generate proposals
• Responsible for rating and quoting process for dental, life, disability, supplemental health product lines
• Develop and implement rating and quoting process that enables the teams to achieve key performance indicators
• Encourage an environment where innovative ideas to improve process are embraced and implemented
• Drive consistency of process across teams
• Successfully balance workload across teams
• Develop and support skill advancement
• Build and maintain effective relationships and feedback mechanisms with sales and internal partners
• Enable the teams to deliver high levels of rating and quoting service, quality & productivity
• Develop and implement strategies to meet turnaround time and quality during times of peak quote volume

Head of Group Benefits – Rating & Quoting, Underwriting

Sales

• Efficiently leverage data from multiple sources using advanced tools and techniques including Microsoft Copilot and Excel
• Use data driven insights to build presentations
• Actively engage in the design, tracking, analysis, and communication of annual incentive plans
• Assist in the development, review, and distribution of detailed compensation plan documents
• Support the annual sales planning process by building workbooks
• Assist in the data collection and analysis of compensation information for benchmarking Guardian compensation plans
• Aid in the creative design of new rewards programs
• Develop and maintain detailed documentation of procedures
• Respond to inquiries from our internal distribution customers

Sales Compensation Analyst – Strategy

Security Engineer

• Lead and coordinate day ‑ to ‑ day execution of: Application Security Testing
• Ethical Hacking / Red Team activities
• Third‑party penetration testing engagements
• Own and maintain processes, procedures, playbooks, and documentation to ensure clarity, repeatability, and quality.
• Contribute to and execute against program planning artifacts, including Roadmaps, backlogs, and quarterly and annual goals

Cybersecurity Assurance Testing Lead

Product Designer

• Own and evolve Guardian’s enterprise design system
• Lead and develop a high-performing team
• Define and enforce UI engineering standards
• Establish and govern accessibility standards
• Partner with Mobile Engineering to ensure consistency

Head of UI Design, Engineering – Accessibility

Data Scientist

• Lead the design and implementation of agentic AI solutions and LLM-powered applications
• Drive the end-to-end model lifecycle
• Develop autonomous agents and advanced NLP pipelines
• Translate research in agentic AI into practical solutions
• Collaborate with data engineers, MLOps/AIOps, and product teams
• Present results and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences
• Stay current on industry trends

Senior Data Scientist, Agentic AI

• Design and implement Agentic AI solutions that automate business workflows, improve decision-making, and enhance customer and employee experiences
• Apply LLMs and generative AI to process and interpret unstructured data such as contracts, underwriting notes, claims, medical records, and customer interactions
• Develop autonomous agents and reasoning systems that integrate with Guardian’s platforms to deliver measurable business outcomes
• Collaborate with data engineers and AIOps teams to ensure models are scalable, robust, and production-ready
• Translate research in agentic AI and reinforcement learning into practical applications for underwriting, claims automation, customer servicing, and risk assessment
• Work closely with product owners, engineers, and business stakeholders to define use cases, design solutions, and measure impact
• Contribute to the Data Science Lab by building reusable components and frameworks for developing and deploying agentic AI solutions

Artificial Intelligence

• Drive broad adoption of AI productivity tools across FPRS by defining practical guidance, standard usage patterns, and guardrails
• Develop and maintain AI playbooks, reusable prompt libraries, and workflow examples
• Partner with Product, Operations, Underwriting, and Service teams to identify, document, and scale repeatable AI use‑case patterns
• Collaborate with HR and Learning partners to support role‑based AI literacy and adoption
• Support and help evolve the FPRS AI Champion network by providing guidance, prompt libraries, and feedback loops
• Analyze usage patterns, adoption trends, and qualitative feedback to identify friction points
• Define handoff and sustainability standards
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders across FPRS to share guidance, adoption insights, and enablement updates