Director, HR Technology & Solutions Delivery

Overview

Inizio seeks a senior HR technology leader to own and evolve the global HR tech stack, with initial focus on Workday operations, design, and delivery. You will lead the Workday IT Operations team and shape a long-term platform-engineering, architecture-led model that scales HR technology across the enterprise. You will translate HR requirements into robust, secure solutions and drive continuous improvement, automation, and governance. This role blends functional HR design with deep engineering discipline to support enterprise objectives.

Pay / Benefits

• Private Healthcare
• Pension
• Annual Leave 25 days
• Hybrid Working
• Life Insurance
• Income Protection

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Workday IT operations: design, configuration, support, and continuous improvement
• Translate business requirements into scalable Workday solutions with HR stakeholders
• Oversee Workday security, reporting, integrations, deployments, and adoption of new capabilities
• Lead the Workday IT Operations team, manage incidents, changes, and releases with SLAs and KPIs
• Drive platform automation, reliability, and operational efficiency; senior escalation point for major issues
• Own delivery of HR technology initiatives from requirements through BAU transition; ensure alignment with roadmap
• Define technology strategy and architecture roadmap for HR tech ecosystem; governance across integrations, data, security
• Lead governance for integrations, security, change, and compliance; partner with Cyber Security, EA, Data teams
• Manage relationships with Workday, vendors, SI partners; ensure delivery quality and knowledge transfer
• Build and develop a multidisciplinary HR Technology team and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
• Collaborate across HR, IT, and Enterprise Architecture to align HR tech with enterprise standards

Key requirements

• Significant experience leading Workday in a complex enterprise environment (functional design, BAU operations, enhancements, project delivery)
• Strong Workday functional solution-design expertise across HCM processes, configuration, security, reporting, integrations and data
• Proven experience delivering major Workday implementations or transformations
• Understanding of enterprise integrations, APIs, middleware, and data integration
• Knowledge of platform engineering practices: testing, deployment, automation, monitoring, operational resilience
• Understanding of application security, IAM, data privacy, change controls and risk management
• Experience establishing governance for enterprise applications and managing vendors/partners
• Experience building and leading multidisciplinary tech teams and strong stakeholder management

• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills
• Collaboration across HR, Architecture, Security, and IT teams
• Customer-focused and accountability-driven
• Workday functional design and operations
• Enterprise integrations, APIs, middleware
• Platform engineering: testing, deployment, automation, monitoring

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