Associate Director, Compensation Systems Architect

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Director, Global Compensation Operations & Enablement Lead, as the Associate Director, Compensation Systems Architect, you will be the senior technical and analytical subject-matter expert, responsible for translating compensation operating requirements into scalable system solutions, reliable data, and actionable insights. In this role, you will serve as the hands-on Workday compensation expert and lead technical execution across the compensation technology ecosystem, including configuration support, integrations, reporting, analytics, and continuous enhancement. Your position will be future-focused, driving the build and adoption of advanced analytics, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities that improve accuracy, efficiency, governance, and decision support across Compensation and broader Total Rewards. In partnership with the Global Compensation Operations & Enablement Lead and HR Systems/Technology team, you will support enterprise-critical cycles (including Year-End) through system readiness, testing support, issue resolution, and reporting enablement-ensuring solutions are robust, sustainable, and aligned with CSL's global standards.

This is a hybrid role, which offers a combination of an onsite and remote work schedule. #LI-hybrid

The Role:

• Serve as the primary Workday Compensation subject matter expert, providing hands-on leadership for configuration, design recommendations, troubleshooting, and optimization of compensation and related Total Rewards functionality.
• Translate compensation operating needs into system requirements and scalable solutions, partnering with HR Systems/Technology to ensure high-quality delivery of enhancements, fixes, and future-state capabilities.
• Lead the technical and analytical execution for the Year-End rewards/compensation cycle (e.g., salary review and related activities) including test support, configuration support, issue triage, reporting readiness, and post-cycle stabilization.
• Build and maintain compensation analytics, dashboards, and decision support, ensuring leaders and stakeholders have timely, accurate insights to guide Total Rewards decisions and governance.
• Execute a roadmap of AI-enabled use cases across Total Rewards, including automation, insight generation, and process improvements that enhance accuracy, speed, and user experience.
• Apply data governance best practices to identify root causes of data/system issues, improve data quality and reliability, and strengthen confidence in compensation reporting and administration.
• Support evaluation and optimization of HR/Total Rewards technology investments, providing technical and analytical input on tool capability, value realization, and integration into the Total Rewards operating model
• Partner with the Global Compensation Operations & Enablement Lead to support process optimization and automation by identifying opportunities, designing requirements, and enabling measurable improvements in efficiency and effectiveness.
• Provide ongoing collaboration and technical partnership with Compensation Delivery & Governance, Benefits, Executive Compensation, Performance, HR Operations, Payroll, and Finance to ensure solutions are aligned, adoptable, and operationally sustainable.
• Serve as a key liaison for compensation systems and data topics, communicating complex technical and analytical insights clearly to stakeholders to enable informed decisions and successful change adoption.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Human Resources, Technology, or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in Total Rewards, Compensation Operations, and/or HR Systems roles.
• Required deep expertise in Workday compensation and incentive administration, data governance, and cross-functional delivery.
• Demonstrated experience leading global processes, systems, and governance in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise-critical reward cycles (e.g., Year End rewards, incentive administration).
• Strong leadership experience with direct team accountability.
• Strategic thinking with strong execution discipline.
• Enterprise systems and process leadership.
• Risk management and governance mindset.
• Ability to influence across functions and regions without direct authority.
• Clear, confident communicator able to translate complexity into actionable direction.
• Continuous improvement and problem-solving orientation.

• Office Environment.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

• Domestic and International travel may be required from time to time.