WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE
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- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand HR needs and design solutions that enhance efficiency, accuracy, and overall effectiveness.
- Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to inform the continuous evolution of the HR technology strategy.
- Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the HR IT function through the thought leadership and implementation of a scalable technology ecosystem.
- Establish and maintain strong partnerships with external vendors, ensuring the integration of innovative solutions into HR processes.
- Partner across HR and the enterprise to connect the dots and maximize our investments in HR technology.
- Design solutions that are extensible, reusable, secure, reliable, cost optimized, operationally excellent, and performant.
- Develop and maintain the multi-year HR technology roadmap and strategy in collaboration with HR IT Leads and HR CoEs.
- Develop solution options, recommendations, designs based on domain roadmaps/requirements, enterprise security standards and reference architectures.
- Identify and evaluate new technologies, innovations, and outsourced partner relationships for
- Lead and coordinate technical reviews (architectural, security, compliance, etc.)
- Leverage recognized technical and business expertise to influence, guide, and shape business strategy and decision- making across HR.
- Provide expert technical advice to domain delivery team and monitor solution compliance with Unilever’s architecture principles.
- Provide consultation, design input, and feedback for application development and design reviews for HR system implementations.
- Effectively collaborate with global teams to deliver solutions.
- Advocate and drive adoption of “standard methodologies” to ensure standardization of solution designs across the enterprise.
- Has in-depth understanding of the product and services portfolio roadmaps of multiple HR CoEs.
EXPERIENCES & QUALIFICATIONS
Necessary Experience & Qualifications
- Education: A bachelor’s degree in information technology, Business Administration, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- Experience: 10+ years of experience in HR technology, including deploying large-scale global HR technology projects
- Technical Skills: 5+ years of combined experience as an Enterprise Architect, HR IT Engineer, Solution Architect, Technical Consultant in an environment with a combination of SaaS and custom developed systems
- Project Management: Project management experience, including the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Preferred Experience & Qualifications
- Project Management: Experience managing timelines, deliverables, and coordinating multiple work streams is beneficial.
- Strong understanding of architecture and design principles: This includes knowledge of design patterns, best practices, and industry standards such as TOGAF, Zachman framework, and others.
- Experience with different types of solutions: Experience with web applications, mobile applications, enterprise applications, and data systems is essential for a solution architect.
- Knowledge of agile methodologies and experience working in agile environments.
- Knowledge of Workday and other HR systems, HR technology platforms, automation tools, and enterprise architecture.
- Strong knowledge of end-to-end HR processes and systems including talent acquisition, core HCM, performance management, payroll, compensation, and benefits and ability to define dependencies and connect the dots across the technology landscape.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Outstanding analytical, problem solving and fact-finding skills.
- Designing and integrating software systems running on multiple platform types into overall architecture
- Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at the most senior organizational levels.
- Ability to understand the HR’s business problem, need, or opportunity and to design a solution that completely and correctly addresses the need.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language.
- Ability to identify, clarify and resolve project issues and risks as needed.
- Strong relationship building skills to effectively partner with HR CoEs and other internal teams and external vendors.
- Ability to manage time and resources efficiently and effectively.
- Ability to work independently.
SKILLS
- Workday
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Thinking
- Collaboration
- Customer Centricity
- Data Driven Decision making
- Digital Technology awareness
- Product Delivery
- Project Management
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
- Unilever Behaviors [highlight the 2 most important for this role]
- PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed.
- PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
- TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best. Inspires powerful teamwork and collaboration, connecting people for better results.
- CONSUMER LOVE: Brings the voice of the consumer into everything we do, always.
- BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates opportunities for profitable growth through the core and beyond.