Workday System Analyst - Talent Acquisition
Atrium Health · Milwaukee, WI - 163 N Milwaukee St ·
- Work mode
- Remote
- Employment
- Part time
- Category
- Recruiting
- Experience
- 2+ years
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Focus on ability to identify problems, communicate to stakeholders, identify and architect workday solutions and understanding of other third-party platforms
Remote Role
Approved remote states: AL, AK, AR, AZ, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL (ONLY Midwest), IN, LA, KS, KY, ME, MI, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WV, WY.
Pay Range:
$35.50 - $53.25Join Us in Redefining Care
At Advocate Health, we’re committed to helping people live well by delivering exceptional care with compassion, innovation, and expertise. We’re seeking a Systems Analyst Senior – Workday to join our People & Culture Digital Capabilities team and help advance scalable, reliable, and teammate-centered HR technology solutions.
As a valued member of our team, you’ll play a key role in supporting and optimizing Workday modules that enable critical workforce processes across the enterprise. This role partners closely with HR, IT, and business stakeholders to translate needs into sustainable system solutions that support operational excellence, governance, and an improved teammate experience.
About This Opportunity
This opportunity is ideal for an experienced Workday or HRIS professional who enjoys solving complex system challenges, improving HR processes, and partnering cross-functionally to deliver thoughtful, scalable solutions. The Systems Analyst Senior independently supports the configuration, maintenance, and optimization of assigned Workday modules while leading moderately complex initiatives with minimal oversight.
The role will support process design, system reliability, security, reporting, data integrity, and emerging digital capabilities — including AI-enabled solutions — to help strengthen workforce operations and enterprise scalability.
What You’ll Do
- Independently support and lead configuration, maintenance, and optimization of assigned Workday modules.
- Partner with HR, IT, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable system configurations.
- Align solutions with governance standards, enterprise best practices, security expectations, and architectural requirements.
- Lead moderately complex cross-functional initiatives from requirements gathering through delivery, testing, and implementation.
- Serve as a technical resource to HR and business partners, helping balance stakeholder needs with system standards and governance.
- Support process design and system reliability to ensure a consistent and effective teammate experience.
- Configure and optimize Workday business processes, security, eligibility rules, notifications, reporting, and integrations.
- Evaluate and apply digital capabilities across varied HR systems and workforce domains.
- Assess AI-enabled and digital solutions for readiness, data integrity, integration capability, operational viability, and long-term sustainability.
- Support release management, testing standards, data audits, and ongoing system improvements.
- Ensure workforce data is accurate, consistent, appropriately governed, and aligned with privacy and confidentiality standards.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Information Technology, Business, or a related field.
- 2–4 years of Workday or HRIS experience.
- Hands-on Workday configuration experience across one or more Workday modules.
- Experience with Workday Business Process Framework, security, eligibility rules, notifications, and workflow optimization.
- Advanced Workday reporting knowledge, including calculated fields, dashboards, and data analysis.
- Foundational understanding of integrations, EIBs, data audits, and system impacts.
- Understanding of Workday release management, testing standards, and system governance best practices.
- Ability to translate stakeholder needs into practical system designs while explaining trade-offs, constraints, and implications.
- Strong understanding of employee lifecycle processes, including hire, movement, compensation, absence, and separation.
- Ability to design solutions that support usability, adoption, teammate experience, and operational feasibility.
- Strong communication, consultation, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Awareness of emerging technologies and how they can support HR systems, workforce operations, and enterprise scalability.
Preferred
- Workday Pro Certification or progress toward certification.
- Experience supporting multiple Workday modules, such as Core HCM, Compensation, Absence, Talent, Recruiting, Learning, Payroll, or Security.
- Experience with Workday integrations, EIBs, advanced reporting, dashboards, and data governance.
- Experience supporting HR technology in a large, complex, or enterprise environment.
- Familiarity with digital transformation, AI-enabled solutions, process improvement, and workforce data stewardship.
- Experience partnering with HR, IT, and cross-functional business stakeholders on system enhancements or enterprise initiatives.
DISCLAIMER
All responsibilities and requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only responsibilities to be performed by an employee occupying this job or position. Employees must follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related duties requested by their leaders.
Our Commitment to You:
Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:
Compensation
Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
Incentive pay for select positions
Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Benefits and more
Paid Time Off programs
Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
Educational Assistance Program
Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.
About Advocate Health
Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.