Architect I

9 - 12 Years

1 Opening

Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Noida, Pune

Role Summary:

We UST workday partner company are seeking a highly skilled Workday Advanced Compensation Specialist to support, enhance, and optimize our global HR technology landscape. The ideal candidate Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of Workday Advanced Compensation modules, driving global compensation process improvements. Partner with business leaders to gather requirements, configure merit, bonus, and stock plans, and support annual compensation cycles. Provide subject matter expertise, oversee system enhancements, and ensure alignment with best practices. Key Responsibilities:
• Manage end-to-end configuration and implementation of Workday Advanced Compensation.
• Gather and analyses business requirements, lead stakeholder workshops, and translate needs into Workday solutions.
• Oversee compensation cycles, including bonuses, merit reviews, and stock plan administration.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for integration, testing, and troubleshooting.
• Provide user training, documentation, and ongoing system support.
• Drive process optimization and stay updated on Workday enhancements to continuously improve compensation programs. Configure, maintain, and optimize Workday Advanced Compensation modules, including:
• Merit, Bonus, and Stock Plans
• Compensation Worksheets & Statements
• Compensation Guidelines and Eligibility Rules
• Compensation Review Processes
• Advanced Compensation Reports and Dashboards
• Lead annual compensation cycle planning, testing, and execution.
• Support global compensation processes and ensure compliance with corporate governance and regional requirements. Workday Configuration & Support
• Perform end-to-end system configuration, testing, and deployment for enhancements and new features.
• Troubleshoot issues, perform root-cause analysis, and deliver timely resolutions.
• Develop and maintain functional documentation, configuration guides, and process flows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on Workday releases, regression testing, and new feature adoption. Required Qualifications
• 8+ years total professional experience in HRIS, HR Technology, or HR Operations.
• 4+ years hands-on experience with Workday HCM, specifically Advanced Compensation.
• Workday Certification (Mandatory) — Advanced Compensation or HCM Core preferred.
• Strong functional knowledge of Workday business processes, security, and reporting.
• Experience supporting multiple annual compensation cycles.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.

Role Proficiency:

Independently analyze and develop applications and review and design solutions in their assigned area of responsibility on ERP/CRM systems. Manage and mentor a team

Outcomes:

• Act creatively to develop applications and select appropriate technical options. Optimize application development maintenance and performance by employing design patterns and by reusing proven solutions while accounting for others' developmental activities

• Develop technical documents such as Functional Design Specifications Deployment documentation

• Perform design document reviews peer code reviews and suggest code improvements

• A single point of contact for the build and deployment issues and resolve them on time

• Learn technology business domain system domain individually and as recommended by the project/account

• Contribute to ERP/CRM Practice related activities for example (but not limited to) assembling content for case studies contributing to reusability coordinating internal seminars and conduct knowledge sharing sessions organizing sessions during and participating in hackathons etc.

• Select appropriate technical options for development such as reusing improving or reconfiguration of existing components.

• Identify the problem patterns and improve the technical design of the application/system

• Optimizes efficiency cost and quality.

• Interpret the application/feature/component design to develop the same in accordance with specifications.

• Code debug test and document and communicates product/component/feature development stages.

• Validate results with user representatives integrates and commissions the overall solution.

• Influence and improve customer satisfaction through things like (but not limited to) offering suggestions for code refactoring and for improvements in business processes completing sprint deliverables ahead of time helping client architects and product owners by way of design suggestions and/or explaining functionality to business stakeholders etc…

• Influence and improve employee engagement within the project teams

• Learn and implement technology newly released features after impact analysis wherever applicable.

• Attend industry/technology specific conferences (if applicable) and share the knowledge with the team.

• Conduct peer reviews and demand high quality standards from the reviewed deliverables.

• Conduct technical assessments for hiring candidates to developer/lead roles.

• Mentor and manage a team.

• Set goals for self and team in NorthStar. Provide timely feedback to team members

Measures of Outcomes:

• Number of applicable technical/domain certifications completed

• Adherence to process and standards (coding standards)

• Number of mandatory trainings (industry/technology specific trainings UST mandatory trainings) completed

• Average time taken for turnaround on production bugs Adherence to schedule / timelines

• Number of technical sessions conducted within Practice for the benefit of peers and team members.

• Contribution to RFPs and estimations in ERP/CRM Practice.

• Number of Leads who were guided and upskilled to lead a technical team.

• Number of process streamline documents prepared for ERP/CRM Practice

Outputs Expected:

Requirement:

• Understand the requirements/user stories

Estimate:

• Create and provide inputs for effort and size estimation and plan resources for projects.

• Follow scrum ceremonies.

Configuration and Coding:

• Define coding standards
  
  templates and checklists. Perform code review of team members.

Test:

• Review and create unit test cases
  
  scenarios and execution.

• Review test plan created by testing team.

• Provide clarifications to the testing team.

Manage Defects:

• Perform defect RCA and mitigation.

• Identify defect trends and take proactive measures to improve quality.

Manage Project:

• Manage delivery of modules. Manage user stories.

Documentation:

• Create/review templates
  
  checklists
  
  guidelines
  
  standards for design/process/development.

• Create/review deliverable documents. Design documentation
  
  requirements
  
  test cases and results.

Status Reporting:

• Report status of tasks assigned.

• Comply with project related reporting standards and process.

Manage knowledge:

• Contribute project related documents
  
  share point
  
  libraries
  
  client universities.

• Review the reusable documents created by the team.

• Create knowledge sharing assets.

Release:

• Execute and monitor release process

Interface with Customer:

• Clarify requirements and provide guidance to development team

• Present design options to customers

• Implementation reviews with stakeholders.

• Work closely with customer architects to finalize design

Domain relevance:

• Advise software developers on design and development of feature / component with deeper understanding of the business problem being addressed for the client.

• Learn more about the customer domain and identify opportunities to provide value additions to customers

• Complete relevant domain certifications

Manage/Mentoring Team:

• Set goals and provide regular feedback to team members.

• Understand aspirations of their team members and provide guidance
  
  opportunities
  
  etc.

• Ensure team members are upskilled and engaged in the project.

• Proactively identify any risks and work with mitigation measures.

• Mentor and motivate junior leads to upgrade their technical screening skills.

Assists others in resolving complex technical problems:

• Manage all aspects of problem management activities
  
  investigating the root cause ofrnproblems and recommends SMART (specific
  
  measurable
  
  achievable
  
  realistic
  
  timely)rnsolutions.

Development and review of Standards & Documentation:

• Maintenance of software process improvement activities
  
  communicating to a range of individuals and teams.

Solution Definition & Design:

• Define Architecture for the small sized kind of project.

• Design the technical framework and implement the same.

Skill Examples:

• Proactively identifying solutions for technical issues.

• Ability to maintain technical evaluation procedures.

• Ability to estimate project effort based on the requirement.

• Perform and evaluate test results against product specifications.

• Break down complex problems into logical components.

• Interface with other teams designers and other parallel practice; including regular follow up for any conflicts during project execution.

• Create and articulate impactful technical presentations.

• Follow high level of business etiquette in emails and other business communication.

• Drive conference calls with customers and answer customer questions.

• Ability to work under pressure determine dependencies risks facilitate planning and handle multiple tasks.

• Build confidence with customers by meeting the deliverables in time with quality.

• Proactively ask for and offer help

Knowledge Examples:

• Functional and technical designing on various ERP/CRM cloud platform features and automations.

• Thorough knowledge of coding best practices and understanding the limitations of coding.

• Experience using data loading tools.
• Experience with production deployment and solving deployment errors.
• Experience in integrating ERP/CRM with external systems using SOAP API REST API etc.
• Experience working in Agile methodology.
• Must have knowledge - HTML/HTML5 CSS XML AJAX Web-services.
• Experience with Google APIs JQuery/any other java-script framework ERP/CRM technology specific mobile development analytics etc.
• Deep knowledge on architecting solutions and applications on cloud-based infrastructures.
• Deep level proficiency in the specialist area.

Workday Advance Compensation,Workday Compensation,Workday Compensation Modules

UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world's best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients' organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process.