Solution Architect - Global Payroll and EUPT

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 SA Experience

Proven experience (5 years +) designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions across platforms, products, or domains.
Minimum 8 years' experience working in technology.
Appropriate degree or relevant professional qualifications.
Experience of systems development change life cycles, best practices and approaches.
Deep understanding of solution architecture principles, frameworks (eg TOGAF), and best practices.
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.
Strong knowledge of payroll data structures including earnings, allowances, bonuses, deductions, benefits, worker categories and time-related payroll data.
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.

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.
Understanding of pay analytics platforms and compensation analytics capabilities, ideally including PayAnalytics.

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.
Understanding of workforce, reward and employee master data management across HR and payroll ecosystems.

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.
Experience designing ETL and data enrichment pipelines supporting payroll, reward and compliance reporting solutions.
Ability to define canonical payroll and compensation data models enabling a single source of truth across HCM, payroll and analytics platforms.
Experience working with Azure-based integration and secure file transfer services for regulated HR and payroll data.

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.
Understanding of payroll compliance obligations across European markets and the impact of regulatory change on technology architecture.

Delivered enterprise Cloud Pay payroll transformations within a large multinational retailer.
Experience working with multiple European payroll providers and payroll outsourcing partners.
Experience supporting phased country-by-country deployments using a common global payroll blueprint.
Experience designing EUPT, compensation, reward or pay-equity reporting solutions spanning multiple countries and legal entities

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience:

Previous experience in retail, preferably with a leading and innovating retailer
Familiarity with retail or fashion industry technology landscapes and trends
Experience of providing technical leadership and guidance to junior peers and colleagues

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