Principal Solution Analyst UKG

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50 year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The Principal Solution Analyst UKG is responsible for ensuring technology solutions address business requirements and achieve the identified business outcomes. This position primarily designs and configures platforms to support business requirements. The job may also document requirements in business requirements documents (BRD), functional specification. 

The position has a combination of strong business acumen, application domain knowledge and the ability to communicate effectively in both technical and business language. This role will assist subject matter experts with gap analysis / process definition and system enhancements and will provide a high level of service for break-fix incidents and requests. This role is different than a developer in that it does not “code”; the focus is to “build” a technical solution by taking business requirements and configuring the systems to support the business requirements.

Specialized Skills and Technologies

• Experience with Kronos and Kronos Workforce Dimensions
• Strong functional knowledge of Kronos modules including:
  • Workforce Dimensions
  • Workforce Dimensions Timekeeping
  • Workforce Dimensions Accruals
  • Workforce Dimensions Absence
  • Workforce Dimensions Analytics
  • Kronos Integration 
  • Dell Boomi Workforce Dimensions Integration Platform
  • Workforce Dimensions Outlook Plugin

Primary Responsibilities

• Act as a lead/subject matter expert (SME) within the Solution Analyst team
• Apply system solutions to business requirements through the design and configuration of systems platforms and applications
• Lead the development of business and technical process documentation and training materials
• Lead the definition of project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases, and elements; assist with project budget needs
• Lead the monitoring of project progress by tracking activity, resolving problems, publishing progress reports, and recommending actions
• Serve as liaison between Business Divisions/Functions and IT on projects and enhancements
• Mentor and support development of more junior Solution Analyst team members
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business Analysis, Data Management, Business Intelligence
• 5 years of work experience in a business or technology role working closely with functions outside of IT understanding business processes and needs
• High level of experience in systems development lifecycle models such as Agile or other traditional project management principles
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong knowledge of business processes and the ability to design, configure, and deploy solutions to support them
• Experience leading Behavior-Driven-Design (BDD) process
• Experience gathering of requirements to facilitate automation of acceptance tests
• Proven record of building consensus and buy-in with key stakeholders
• Ability to demonstrate Agile delivery values of openness, commitment, respect, courage, and focus

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.  Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees.  Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.