Senior Workday Technical Configurator - Benefits & Leave of Absence (LOA)
Remote (U.S.) | 6+ Month Contract | Potential Extension and/or Conversion
A leading national insurance and financial services organization is seeking an experienced Senior Workday Technical Configurator with deep expertise in Workday Benefits and Leave of Absence (LOA) configuration.
This is a highly technical HRIS configuration role focused on building, configuring, enhancing, and supporting Workday functionality. This is NOT an HR Generalist, Benefits Administrator, Leave Administrator, HR Operations, Employee Relations, or Recruiting position.
Candidates must have recent hands-on Workday configuration experience within both Benefits and Absence Management/LOA modules. Applicants whose backgrounds are primarily focused on HR administration, benefits administration, leave processing, payroll processing, or general HR support without significant Workday configuration responsibilities will not be considered.
This individual will partner with HR, Benefits, Payroll, and business stakeholders to optimize Workday functionality, support Open Enrollment initiatives, enhance business processes, and deliver scalable system solutions following a recent enterprise-wide Workday implementation.
Important Candidate Requirements
To be considered, candidates must have:
- Recent hands-on Workday Benefits configuration experience
- Recent hands-on Workday Leave of Absence (LOA) / Absence Management configuration experience
- Experience configuring business processes, eligibility rules, life events, leave types, and accruals
- Experience troubleshooting and supporting Workday production environments
- Experience supporting Open Enrollment from a Workday configuration perspective
Please apply only if your experience includes direct Workday configuration. Candidates whose experience is primarily HR, Benefits Administration, Leave Administration, Recruiting, Payroll, or HR Operations without Workday configuration expertise are not a fit for this opportunity.
What You'll Be Doing
- Configure, maintain, and optimize Workday Benefits and Absence Management modules
- Support Open Enrollment activities, configuration updates, testing, and production support
- Configure eligibility rules, benefit plans, life events, leave plans, leave types, and accrual policies
- Design and maintain business processes, notifications, approvals, condition rules, and security configurations
- Partner with HR, Benefits, Payroll, and business leaders to translate requirements into scalable Workday solutions
- Build and maintain reports, calculated fields, dashboards, and analytics
- Troubleshoot and resolve Workday configuration issues and system defects
- Support integrations, enhancement requests, release management, and testing activities
- Collaborate with third-party vendors, benefits carriers, and leave administrators
- Recommend process improvements and system enhancements that improve efficiency and user experience
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of hands-on Workday configuration experience
- 3+ years of hands-on Workday Benefits configuration experience
- 3+ years of hands-on Workday Absence Management / Leave of Absence (LOA) configuration experience
- Demonstrated experience configuring benefit plans, eligibility rules, life events, leave types, accruals, notifications, approvals, and business processes
- Experience supporting Open Enrollment from a Workday configuration perspective
- Strong understanding of Workday business processes, reporting, calculated fields, and security
- Experience troubleshooting production issues and implementing system enhancements
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to gather business requirements and translate them into Workday configurations
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical configuration decisions to business stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
- Workday Pro Certification in Benefits and/or Absence Management
- Experience with EIBs, calculated fields, integrations, and tenant management
- Experience working with benefits carriers and third-party leave administrators
- Experience supporting newly implemented or rapidly evolving Workday environments
- Experience with Workday release testing and change management
Why This Opportunity?
- Fully remote within the United States
- High-visibility role supporting critical enterprise Workday initiatives
- Opportunity to influence and improve a growing Workday environment
- Potential for long-term extension and/or conversion
- Fast-moving interview process
Pay: $50.00 - $58.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- How many years of hands-on Workday Benefits configuration experience do you have?
- How many years of hands-on Workday Leave of Absence (LOA) or Absence Management configuration experience do you have?
- Have you personally configured Workday business processes, condition rules, notifications, and approval workflows?
- Have you supported at least one Workday Open Enrollment cycle?
- Please briefly describe a Benefits or LOA configuration that you personally built in Workday.
- Please provide the URL to your active LinkedIn profile.
Work Location: Remote
