Senior Digital HR Specialist

Summary

The Senior HRIS Specialist supports NYPA's Human Resources technology environment by maintaining, enhancing, and troubleshooting core HR systems. This role ensures high quality data management, efficient system processes, and reliable reporting and analytics for HR and business stakeholders. The Senior HRIS Specialist works closely with HR, IT, and functional teams to assess system requirements, configure improvements, support workflows, and provide end user guidance, support and training.

Ideal candidates bring strong analytical skills, a solid understanding of HR operations, and advanced hands on experience with Workday-particularly within HCM, including Compensation, Benefits, Talent acquisition and development, Learning, Reporting, and business process configuration. This position contributes to optimized HR operations, improved system usability, and data driven decision making across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a Data Governance framework that meets data objectives 
• Design and configure solutions in the IT systems used by the organization.
• Implement policies and standards for management of data. 
• Identify and establish data quality rules and definitions. Establish data quality process, governance, and issue tracking process tools. Develop data quality metrics that identify gaps and ensure compliance with standards working with business owners.
• Work with all areas of the business to ensure data quality and integrity.
• Facilitate the development of queries, reports and insights across the company Work with business and IT partners to remediate identified gaps using both manual and automated solutions; defines and implements tools in collaboration with IT.
• Facilitate the development of reports and insights across the company. 
• Act as primary system administrator and control point for system access and maintenance. Maintain and facilitate creation of user accounts. goals in accordance with NYPA policies and practices.
• Issue resolution of the many systems 
• Support their technology needs and effective use of the system working closely with stakeholders.
• Support technology implementation, roll out, development of communications to companywide users.
• Proactively manage communications and training on changes to systems and processes. 
• Drive business user adoption of business intelligence and self-service reporting.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Highly collaborative individual, who has proven ability to work with all levels to achieve results.
• Self-starter, ability to work independently in a fast paced environment while delivering solid action-oriented results quickly.
• Strong understanding of use of IT systems and their functional applications 
• Strong understanding and experience in configuring and administration of systems 
• Experience in designing, configuring and implementing Information Systems and procedures.
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of IT and Data Architecture concepts, methods, and strategies.
• Strong understanding of use of data (e.g. for analytics, business intelligence) as well as data management (e.g. data warehousing, BI delivery) and data governance (standards, quality, metadata), industry trends, and best practices.
• Familiarity with data modeling, data dictionary, data analytics and data profiling
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify, quantify and effectively raise business risks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.

Education, Experience and Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree.  Business Management, Information Management, Statistics, Engineering, or similar
• 4 years of experience  moderately complex system design and implementation work efforts preferred.
• Experience in a data organization, clearly exposed and performing tasks within different data governance aspects (quality, standards, reference data, data management) preferred.
• Experience including building  queries, and common/standard use of data analysis tools. 
• Experience in the Utilities industry – Preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Limited travel (up to 10%) required primarily to our generating facilities.
• Overnight travel to the various NYPA locations within New York State.