Business System Lead - People Team and Real Estate

You will:

• Portfolio Strategy & Architecture: Define and execute the multi-year technology roadmap across People, Culture, and REWS systems, ensuring alignment between Waymo’s business objectives, IT strategy, and Alphabet corporate infrastructure.
• Team Leadership & Delivery: Lead, mentor, and guide a high-performing team of systems analysts, engineers, and program managers, driving sprint backlogs, UAT execution, vendor governance, and bi-annual release cycles.
• Lifecycle Automation: Architect resilient cross-platform integrations translating employee lifecycle events (onboarding, role transfers, departures) into automated downstream actions across identity provisioning, badge access control, and desk allocation.
• AI-First Solution Design: Modernize core workplace and HR processes by evaluating and embedding AI-native tools, LLM-driven workflow automations, and intelligent business process automation (RPA).
• Enterprise Systems Integration: Lead large-scale SaaS implementations and platform enhancements anchored around core tools such as Workday HCM, CoStar, Sitetracker, Tririga, and corporate SAP integrations.
• Operational Excellence & Governance: Direct system change management, 3rd-level incident triage, and root-cause analyses while enforcing enterprise-grade data privacy, audit compliance, and SOC/SOX security controls.

You have:

• A Bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline (such as Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or MIS), or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 to 10 years of experience working as a Business Systems Analyst, specifically supporting corporate HR, facilities/real estate functional areas.
• Strong understanding of HR & Real Estate tech domain and its core business processes like Hire to Retire.
• Solid project management fundamentals, including experience working within Agile/Scrum frameworks, managing backlogs, and prioritizing competing requests.
• Excellent communication skills, with a track record of translating complex technical architecture into plain language for non-technical business partners.

We prefer:

• Master’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or an MBA.
• Deep functional and technical knowledge of Workday (Core HCM, Business Process Framework, Studio, EIB) and enterprise financial/subledger integration points (e.g., SAP).
• Proven success driving business systems transformation in high-growth technology, autonomous vehicle, or complex hardware/fleet environments.
• Experience with IoT/sensor-based space utilization systems, lease accounting workflows, and physical security access control integrations (e.g., Lenel, CCure).
• Practical experience evaluating and deploying generative AI tools, automated chatbots, or agentic workflows to optimize corporate workforce operations.
• Familiarity with Alphabet internal shared infrastructure, security review standards, and enterprise data privacy policies.