Director, Payroll Applications & Technology - 1662

City: Culver City, CA

Onsite/ Hybrid/ Remote: Hybrid (3-4 days a week onsite) - No Flex in this

Duration: 5 Months (End date: 03/26/2027)

Rate Range: Upto $100/hr on W2

Work Authorization: GC, USC, All valid EADs except H1B, OPT, CPT

Must Have:

• 10+ years of experience in payroll systems, HRIS, workforce management, payroll technology, or related enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience configuring, administering, troubleshooting, or implementing enterprise payroll or workforce management platforms.
• Strong end-to-end payroll knowledge, including Hours-to-Gross, Gross-to-Net, payroll controls, integrations, and U.S. and Canadian payroll requirements.
• Experience leading complex production incidents, root-cause analysis, and technical resolution across applications, integrations, and data.
• Experience with integrations, APIs, secure file transfers, SQL, data validation, testing, releases, cutovers, and stabilization.
• Experience leading technical teams, contractors, managed service providers, and vendors.
• Experience managing technology budgets, vendor performance, and business-critical application environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, technical health, operating model, and roadmap for payroll and workforce management applications.
• Lead modernization efforts focused on reliability, automation, observability, analytics, security, and user experience.
• Establish standards for application configuration, integrations, reporting, automation, security, and controls.
• Ensure payroll-related integrations and data flows are reliable, documented, monitored, and supportable.
• Lead technical investigation and resolution of complex payroll, timekeeping, integration, data, calculation, access, and financial posting issues.
• Drive critical incidents through containment, root-cause analysis, permanent resolution, validation, and preventive action.
• Lead payroll technology implementations, releases, cutovers, go-lives, and stabilization activities.
• Build and develop a strong payroll technology team through coaching, cross-training, documentation, and succession planning.
• Manage vendors, contracts, statements of work, service levels, budgets, and delivery commitments.
• Partner with Payroll, HR, Finance, Security, Audit, integration teams, and other business stakeholders.
• Maintain technical documentation, testing evidence, support procedures, runbooks, change controls, and audit-ready materials.
• Ensure payroll technology solutions meet payroll, tax, security, privacy, SOX, and audit requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong experience supporting business-critical payroll or workforce management applications.
• Proven experience leading technical teams and complex enterprise application environments.
• Strong knowledge of payroll integrations, application support, troubleshooting, testing, and production operations.
• Ability to communicate technical issues, risks, priorities, and decisions to senior leadership.

Nice to Have:

• Hands-on experience with Infor WFM.
• Hands-on experience with UKG Payroll.
• Experience with both Infor WFM and UKG Payroll.
• Workday Core HCM and Compensation experience.
• SAP Finance experience.
• Cognos, Power BI, SQL, advanced Excel, or similar reporting and analytics tools.
• Experience supporting complex U.S. and Canadian payroll environments.
• Experience with union and non-union payroll populations.
• Knowledge of entertainment-industry collective bargaining agreements.
• Experience with payroll technology migrations, implementations, and large-scale go-lives.
• Experience using automation, scripting, monitoring, analytics, or AI-enabled tools.
• Agile, Scrum, ITIL, project management, payroll, or relevant platform certifications.