Workday Benefit and Absence Architect (Pune City)

Join Verdantas - A Top #ENR 81 Firm About the Role: We at Verdantas, looking for a skilled Workday Benefit and Absence Architect to join our team. This role will be responsible for driving the end-to-end architecture, design, and optimization of the Workday Benefits and Absence ecosystem. The role will ensure scalable system design, regulatory compliance, and seamless integration with Workday HCM, Payroll, and third-party vendors, while enabling efficient business processes and enhancing overall employee experience. Key Responsibilities: - Owns the architecture and configuration for Workday Benefits and Absence ecosystems ensuring that designs are scalable for a growing company - Create and maintain complex eligibility rules for benefit groups, benefit plans, leave plans, and time off plans for the company and acquired companies - Design and configure absence plans ensuring alignment with policy and compliance requirements at the state and federal levels - Configure a variety of benefit plans including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life and disability insurance, and 401(k) - Support the Benefits team with compliance reporting such as ACA, COBRA, and FMLA - Partner developers and benefit vendors set up new integrations and maintain existing integrations that impact the benefits and absence ecosystems - Partner with payroll teams to test downstream impacts and ensure accurate payroll - Lead regression testing for Advantages and Absence after new Workday releases - Create custom reports including but not limited to standard, advanced, composite, and matrix reports - Support Workday tenant maintenance, enhancements, and troubleshooting for Benefits and Absence functional areas and provide support in related functional area as needed - Assist HCM Manager with preparing change management plans and creating guides for end users - Test AI features such as Workdays Employee Self Service agent and assist with overall innovation enhancements Educati .