Senior Systems Analyst -Information/HR Technology (PeopleSoft Payroll/Commitment Accounting)

About the role

Join our dynamic Technology team as Senior Systems Analyst where you will drive the administration, optimization and strategic support of our enterprise workforce management and core HR applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert-level system administration and technical support for PeopleSoft HCM, focusing on North American Payroll processing and backend data management.
• Work with clients to gather and synthesize functional and technical requirements to translate complex payroll distributions into detailed configuration tasks.
• Facilitate design workshops for end-to-end Payroll and Commitment Accounting business processes with business stakeholders to understand business requirements, demonstrate understanding of business needs, and keep sub systems in alignment.
• Provide expertise and guidance on detailed PeopleSoft configuration tasks including department budget tables, encumbrance definitions, fiscal year budgets and related data for positions and employees.
• Identify, troubleshoot, configure, and resolve application bottlenecks, system bugs, or data integrations failures between active platforms (such as integration broker or SQR interfaces).
• Business Analysis & Data Integration
• Partner with HR, Compensation, and operational business units to conduct comprehensive fit/gap analyses, evaluate design choices, and map business workflows to technical specifications.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to configure and optimize upstream and downstream HR processes within PeopleSoft, including data conversions, platform integration and cross system reports.
• Analyze complex data relationships between primary and secondary systems, ensuring flawless data mapping, interface validation and consistent business logic across systems.
• Validate and manipulate backend data using advanced reports, SQL queries, and data extraction tools while creating comprehensive functional and technical design documents.
• Plan and organize tasks while providing regular progress updates on project deliverables to leadership.
• Participate in a 24X7 on call-call rotation to ensure high availability and timely support of critical production workflows.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of progressive business systems analysis, project implementation or application support experience.
• Proven hands-on technical exposure to system development lifecycles (SDLC), including requirements gathering, complex configuration, end to end testing and end-user training.
• Direct experience navigating, querying, or troubleshooting enterprise relational database tables and data structures.
• Proficiency in writing SQL for data validation, query writing and reporting across legacy and cloud environments.
• Strong technical proficiency in cross platform human capital environments (specifically maintaining historical alignment or migration pathways between legacy and cloud layers).
• Highly Preferred: Direct experience configuring, maintaining, and processing within PeopleSoft Commitment Accounting and Commitment Control.
• Highly Preferred: Deep functional and technical knowledge of PeopleSoft Payroll (Payroll for North America) including general ledger interface tables, calculations and tax related components.
• Highly Preferred: Prior technical exposure or integration experience with secondary enterprise systems (such as PeopleSoft and Workday).

Skills

• Expert-level system administration and technical support for PeopleSoft HCM.
• Technical proficiency in cross platform human capital environments.
• Experience with PeopleSoft Payroll and Commitment Accounting.
• SQL for data validation, query writing and reporting.
• Advanced configuration and troubleshooting skills.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Data mapping and validation skills.
• Project management and leadership skills.

Benefits

UT Southwestern is proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. Our benefits are designed to support your overall wellbeing, and include:

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100% coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retail Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)

Pay

Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Full-time.