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 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