Principal Business Systems Analyst
Leads delivery and product analysis for Okta’s Growth & Talent people-technology portfolio, integrating Greenhouse, Cornerstone, and Workday across talent processes. Requires deep HRIS expertise, multi-system delivery leadership, stakeholder management, and substantial professional experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of complex, multi-quarter initiatives across Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Performance, Learning, and Career Development.
- Serve as the functional specialist and delivery lead for the Growth & Talent technology portfolio.
- Drive integrations across Greenhouse, Cornerstone, and Workday Talent, Performance, Skills, and Core HCM systems.
- Manage prioritized backlogs and delivery from initiation through completion.
- Break down epics and requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical tasks within Scrum ceremonies.
- Identify opportunities to optimize and automate recruiting workflows, learning paths, and internal mobility using modern technology and AI.
- Resolve project risks, integration blockers, and requirement trade-offs.
- Facilitate technical scoping workshops and mentor analysts and developers.
- Write functional requirements, process flows, data mappings, and use cases while aligning Recruiting, Talent Management, and technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of related professional People Technology or HRIS experience with a bachelor's degree, or 6+ years with a master's degree.
- Deep functional and technical knowledge of Greenhouse, Cornerstone, and Workday Talent and Performance.
- Experience leading complex, multi-system HR technology initiatives, integrations, and feature rollouts.
- Strong systems analysis and problem-solving skills across applications, data structures, and HR processes.
- Excellent stakeholder collaboration, consensus-building, and conflict-management skills.
- Strategic thinking related to talent technology architecture, internal mobility, and system optimization.
- Agile leadership, requirements workshop facilitation, and mentoring experience.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience implementing AI or automation use cases in HR technology, such as candidate matching, skill taxonomy mapping, or automated learning pathways.
- Workday Talent or Performance certification.
- Agile or Scrum certification.
Skills
Greenhouse, Cornerstone, Workday, Workday Talent, Workday Performance, Workday Core Hcm, Applicant Tracking Systems, Learning Management Systems, HRIS, Systems Integration, Agile, Scrum, AI Automation, Data Mapping, Requirements Analysis
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