Lead Technical Application Specialist (Workday)

TL;DR

Lead Technical Application Specialist (Workday): Leading and directing technical application specialists across the People Platform, ensuring consistent and high-quality technical support. Focus on driving continuous improvement in tooling, processes, and ways of working, as well as developing TAS colleagues, building capability, and supporting career growth.

Location: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Halifax or Leeds office.

Salary: £92,701 - £109,060 per annum

Company

hirify.global is rebooting an icon and building the future of finance.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop TAS colleagues, supporting capability growth and professional development.
• Oversee TAS delivery across analysis, incidents, change, and technical operations, ensuring consistent standards.
• Drive continuous improvement by enhancing TAS ways of working, tooling adoption, and process optimisation.
• Represent the TAS function in platform‑level forums, providing technical insight and strategic direction.
• Act as an escalation point for complex technical issues and third‑party product challenges.
• Build strong relationships with engineering teams, Product Owners, vendors, and wider platform stakeholders.

Requirements

• Deep technical understanding of TAS‑supported applications, domains, and third‑party platforms (we use Workday extensively, so specific experience in this is a pre-requisite, additionally experience of ServiceNow and or Microsoft technologies will be useful)
• Proven leadership and coaching experience in technical teams.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience driving continuous improvement and embedding new ways of working.

Culture & Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.