Senior Application Engineer HRIS (6-month contract) - On Site or Remote

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

We are seeking a skilled HRIS Consultant for a project-based implementation of a Human Resource Information System (HRIS) aimed at streamlining and harmonizing our HR processes. This project will focus on integrating disparate HR functions, consolidating processes, and ensuring data consistency across the organization. The consultant will manage the project from inception to completion, aligning the HRIS system with organizational goals and ensuring a seamless transition to optimized HR operations.

In this role, your work will include:

• Integration Development: Design, implement, and maintain integrations between the HRIS system and other HR-related systems (e.g., payroll, benefits, ATS, LMS, timekeeping).
• Data Flow Management: Ensure seamless data exchange between systems, identifying and addressing any issues that affect data integrity, and resolving data discrepancies.
• Configuration & Customization: Configure integration settings based on organizational requirements, including API configurations, system enhancements, and upgrades.
• Collaboration: Work closely with HR, IT, and external vendors to gather integration requirements, provide technical support, and manage project timelines.
• Troubleshooting: Analyze and resolve technical issues related to system integrations and data flow. Escalate complex issues to relevant teams when necessary.
• System Testing: Develop and execute test plans to ensure integrations meet functional and business requirements, minimizing disruptions.
• Documentation: Maintain detailed documentation of integrations, workflows, processes, and system changes. Ensure all procedures and technical specifications are well-documented.
• Compliance & Security: Ensure that all integrations meet compliance and security standards, including data protection and privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
• Support & Maintenance: Provide ongoing support for HRIS system upgrades, releases, and other system changes. Maintain regular system health checks to ensure reliability and performance.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for system improvements, automation, and process efficiencies to enhance the overall HR technology ecosystem.

Location:

This position can be based at our headquarters in Salt Lake City, UT. Remote work is also an option.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Direct experience with HRIS platforms such as Bamboo, HiBob, ADP.
• Understanding of HR processes like payroll, benefits administration, time tracking, recruitment, and performance management, as these are commonly integrated with the HRIS.
• Experience with tools such as Workato
• Experience working with APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), especially RESTful and SOAP APIs, to enable communication between HRIS and other systems.
• Knowledge of data formats such as XML, JSON, and CSV for exchanging data between systems.
• Experience in managing data transformation and data mapping between different systems.
• Proficiency in SQL to query and manipulate data from databases. Experience in writing complex queries to support data extraction, integration, and reporting needs.
• Understanding of relational database structures, especially in the context of HR data.
• Experience with configuring HRIS platforms to accommodate integration points (e.g., setting up SFTP connections, adjusting API configurations).
• Customizing workflows and integration triggers within the HRIS and related systems to ensure smooth operation across platforms.
• Experience in troubleshooting technical issues related to data flows, integration failures, or system outages.
• Hands-on experience in identifying root causes of integration issues, performing system debugging, and collaborating with vendors or IT teams for resolution.
• Experience in creating and executing test plans, scripts, and test cases to validate system integrations.
• Conducting UAT (User Acceptance Testing) to ensure the integration meets business and functional requirements.
• Experience working cross-functionally with HR, IT, and external vendors to gather requirements, design integration solutions, and implement changes.
• 3-5+ years of experience

The Values That We Hope You Share:

• We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
• We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
• We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover. 
• Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
• We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.

Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here.

More About Recursion 

Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.

Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London, Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.

Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, local, or provincial human rights legislation. 

Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursion’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion, and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.