Solution Architect - Global Payroll and EUPT in South East

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.