Business Architect (Workday) - Lead Consultant (Hybrid)

Key responsibilities:   

• Influence and align senior stakeholders at all levels, productively challenging current mindsets to deliver better outcomes for the business and our people. 

• Partner closely with HR Centers of Excellence and business partners to supporting end-to-end employee experience discovery and redesign—including strategy blueprinting, capability mapping, root cause analysis, and removal of blockers, inefficiencies, and waste. 

• Develop clear “as-is” and “to-be” process models, create future-state roadmaps, and oversee successful implementation and adoption. 

• Collaborate with HR Technology and Service Delivery teams improving operational efficiencies through streamlining, automation, and AI-enabled solutions. 

• Support the ongoing evolution of our global HR Service Delivery model, ensuring processes and capabilities are built for future scale and agility. 

• Partner with HR teams to define and track metrics that measure the effectiveness, efficiency, and employee experience of HR services. 

• Serve as the key enabler balancing global operating models and localized requirements within India and Northern Ireland.    

Essential Skills:   

• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.  

• A minimum of 3 year’s HR or business related experience working with Workday HCM solutions at scale.   

• A minimum of 2 years owning or configuring Compensation, Time, or Absence modules (e.g., implementing new functionality, reducing manual effort, improving data quality, or increasing process adoption).   

• A minimum 1 years’ experience coaching or mentoring team members globally   

• Demonstrated ability to apply Agile best practices while clearly communicating complex concepts evidenced by leading Agile ceremonies, refining backlogs, producing clear user stories or decision documents, and effectively presenting product strategy to senior or non‑technical stakeholders to accelerate delivery and improve alignment.   

Desirable Skills:   

• Experience partnering with HR teams across multiple geographies (preferably India and/or Northern Ireland), addressing localisation needs, process variations, and regulatory considerations.    

• Experience partnering with HR Business Partners, COEs, and People Leaders to understand strategic priorities, identify pain points, and convert conceptual HR outcomes into scalable system enhancements 

Supervisory Responsibilities:   

• This job does not have supervisory duties.   

Job posting end date: Monday 10th August 2026 [11.59pm] 

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