The Role: Solution Architect – Global Payroll and EUPT
Location: Reading, UK
Position Type: Contract Inside IR35
Remote work option Available: 3- Days Work from Office
Job Description:
Essential Experience
* Proven experience (5yrs +) designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions across platforms, products, or domains.
* Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical peers and stakeholders alike.
* Payroll Domain Expertise
* Proven experience designing and delivering global payroll solutions across multiple countries, payroll providers and legislative jurisdictions.
* Deep understanding of end-to-end payroll processes including gross-to-net calculations, taxation, statutory deductions, pensions, benefits, payroll controls and reconciliation.
* Experience defining global payroll templates, common payroll operating models and management of country-specific deviations.
* Experience with payroll transformation programmes involving payroll vendor consolidation, platform replacement or country migrations.
* Experience designing payroll finance integrations including payroll journals, costing, accruals, reconciliation and General Ledger posting.
* EU Pay Transparency & Reward Expertise
* Strong understanding of EU Pay Transparency Directive requirements, including pay gap reporting, employee right-to-information requests and regulatory disclosure obligations.
* Experience designing solutions supporting pay equity analysis, compensation reporting and transparency reporting across multiple European markets.
* Ability to model and govern reward, compensation, payroll, benefits and workforce data required for EUPT reporting.
* Experience supporting complex reporting requirements spanning multiple countries, legal entities and regulatory frameworks.
* Workday & P&C Technology Expertise
* Experience architecting solutions using Workday HCM, Workday Compensation and Workday reporting capabilities.
* Experience with Workday Prism and enterprise data hub patterns for consolidating payroll, HCM, reward and workforce data.
* Experience designing solutions integrating Workday with multiple external payroll providers and non-Workday HR platforms.
* Integration & Data Architecture
* Experience designing secure payroll integration architectures using SFTP, encryption, managed file transfer and batch processing patterns.
* Strong knowledge of payroll file ingestion, transformation, standardization and harmonization processes across multiple payroll vendors.
* Security, Compliance & Governance
* Strong understanding of GDPR, payroll data security, data retention and audit requirements.
* Experience designing solutions handling highly sensitive colleague payroll and compensation information with appropriate security controls and segregation of duties.
* Experience establishing data quality, governance and traceability controls for regulatory reporting solutions.
* Preferred Payroll Experience
* Delivered enterprise Cloud Pay payroll transformations within a large multinational retailer.
* Experience working with multiple European payroll providers and payroll outsourcing partners