Global HR Technology Architect

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper & world-shaper.

At Alcoa, you're an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. This is an opportunity for you to bring your wealth of experience to the team and help shape the future of sustainability with world-changing innovations and low-carbon technologies. You have the power to shape things to make them better.

About the role:

The HR Global Technologies Solutions Architect is an integral part of a global collaborative and consultative team to drive value of HR technologies within Alcoa. This role has principal ownership over strategy, design, configuration, user experience, and highest-level support for several main modules within our enterprise implementation of Workday. These modules include Core Human Capital Management (HCM), Compensation, Absence, Security, Integrations, and Payroll. Additionally, providing strategic leadership in advancing and integrating AI capabilities within the HR function to enhance efficiency, insights, and overall employee experience. Through high collaboration within the HR organization, this role finds opportunity, aligns technology capabilities with needs, then drives business impact to the constantly evolving HR business.

Responsibilities:

- Lead design sessions with business leaders, provide thought leadership, and support the implementation of HR Technology solutions

- Continually refine and optimize process and functionality of sophisticated solutions to increase user experience and value of technology investments

- Work as a team with business process or function owners to develop case for technologies with value metrics and estimates for total cost of ownership

- Lead significant phases of major initiatives such as implementation of new modules or significant functionality deployment through project management, defining requirements, documentation, configuration, testing, and release management

- Conduct solution assessment, execution, and validation for sophisticated multi-functional projects and processes

- Crafting enterprise processes accounting for individual local needs and requirements while at the same time adhering to local laws for employee personal data privacy

- Elicit business needs and value using interviews, document analysis, requirements sessions, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, workflow analysis and other relevant techniques

- Providing technical reviews and suggestions on current and future technology implementations

- Establishes end-to-end documentation mapping of business processes, functional flows, data flows, and system security roles

- Responsible for securing HR data ensuring each role and assignment has access to only the vital employee information to perform their responsibilities

What you can bring to the role:

- Demonstrated ability supporting a Workday implementation and/or supporting a live Workday system instance

- Experience crafting and configuring within the cloud-based HR technology landscape

- Basic grasp of relational data and role-based security models

- Proficient in both oral and written English

- High level of Microsoft Office 365 proficiency

What we offer:

At Alcoa, our care for people philosophy is backed by our excellent total rewards package that we provide for our employees effective on your date of hire, such as:

- Competitive compensation packages, including pay-for-performance variable pay, recognition and rewards programs.

- 401(k), employer match up to 6%, additional employer retirement income contribution (no vesting period)

- Healthcare benefits: medical, Rx, dental, vision, flexible spending account, health savings account (generous employer contribution), life and accident insurance

- Work-life balance programs: flexible work scheduling, hybrid/remote working

- Paid time off: 15 vacation days prorated in the 1st year based on hire date, 10 holidays including 1 flexible holiday of your choice, 7 illness days, Care for Family leave up to 40 days, up to 5 bereavement days, maximum of 30 jury duty days, and up to 10 days annual training for military leave.

About the Location

Alcoa is an international company with multiple locations and joint ventures across six continents. Wherever you choose to join us, you'll be joining a global team committed to advancing sustainability and delivering excellence and innovation. As industry pioneers, we are redefining what it means to be a sustainable aluminum company, bridging the journey from mines to metal.

We are values led, vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress. Our commitments to Inclusion, Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful and inclusive of all individuals, free from discrimination, bullying and harassment and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.

As a proud equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer, Alcoa is dedicated to providing equal opportunities and equal access to all individuals regardless of a person’s gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, nation of origin, disability, veteran status, language spoken or any other characteristic or status protected by the laws or regulations in the places where we operate.

If you have visited our website in search of information on U.S. employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Alcoa Recruiting via email at gssrecruiting@alcoa.com.

This is a place where you are empowered to do your best work, be your authentic self, and feel a true sense of belonging. Come join us and shape your career!

Your work. Your world. Shape them for the better.