• Support the end-to-end design, development, and delivery of Workday weekly, monthly, quarterly, and R1/R2 release updates • Monitor Workday Community and other forums for solutions to current issues and opportunities to optimize configuration, including on-line discussions, brainstorm submission and voting, training, webinars, etc. • Focus on system optimization and maintenance needs through continuous awareness of internal process changes, Workday functionality roadmaps, and updates as well as market trends • Work closely with HR Systems Manager and HR COE leads in the gathering and writing of functional requirements, configure, develop test plans and scripts, conduct component, integration, and user acceptance tests. • Look for opportunities to leverage AI through Workday and Workday Agents. • Work on cross functional projects focused on continuous improvement, automation, harmonization, and standardization. • Assist with portfolio and project management across the HR Systems team. • Serve as a subject matter expert of HR systems design supporting Functional Owners in deployment of major projects, annual business cycles along with the ability to solve complex business problems. • Recommend and implement new solutions, processes, policies, and standards in support of HR strategy and operations, and AI adoption.