HR Data & Automation Engineer (Project Based)

Team: Human Resources

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Review existing employee and HR data sources to identify duplicates, inconsistencies, missing information, data-quality issues, and structural gaps.

• Define and implement a standardized employee master-data structure, including required fields, validation rules, ownership, and data-management standards.

• Aggregate, clean, reconcile, and verify historical leave records from multiple sources, including time-tracking systems, spreadsheets, and historical communications.

• Establish a reliable master baseline for employee and leave data that can serve as the foundation for ongoing HR operations.

• Design and implement a future-state leave management workflow covering leave requests, approvals, balance tracking, notifications, and record maintenance.

• Automate HR workflows using Google Workspace tools such as Google Forms and Sheets, or recommend and implement a stronger suitable alternative where appropriate.

• Establish appropriate ownership models, validation controls, role-based access permissions, and audit trails for sensitive HR data.

• Identify opportunities to reduce manual data entry, improve data accuracy, and strengthen the reliability and traceability of HR processes.

• Document data structures, workflows, controls, and maintenance procedures to support ongoing administration and potential replication across additional country branches.

• Work independently across the full fixed project scope, providing progress updates and engaging with IT or management when required.

• Prepare project deliverables in line with the agreed scope, methodology, timeline, estimated effort, and budget.

Requirements

• Strong experience cleaning, reconciling, and structuring complex or inconsistent datasets collected from multiple sources.

• Professional experience with HRIS platforms, employee master data, HR data management, or closely related operational data environments.

• Hands-on experience with Google Workspace automation, particularly Google Forms, Google Sheets, notifications, and related workflow capabilities.

• Strong understanding of data quality, validation, ownership, permissions, and governance principles.

• Experience designing access controls and audit trails for sensitive or confidential HR information.

• Ability to analyze fragmented processes and data sources, identify discrepancies, and develop practical solutions for improving accuracy and efficiency.

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, organizational, and documentation skills, with excellent attention to detail.

• Ability to work independently and manage a fixed-scope project from assessment and design through implementation and documentation.

• Experience with HR system-to-system synchronization or integration is highly desirable.

• Experience scaling HR data structures or workflows across multiple countries, branches, or business units is an advantage.

• Ability to prepare a detailed RFQ outlining the proposed approach, methodology, deliverables, exclusions, timeline, estimated hours, total cost, additional or recurring costs, dependencies, risks, limitations, and assumptions.

• A portfolio demonstrating relevant and comparable HR data, automation, workflow, or data-governance projects.

• Willingness to sign an NDA and Project Agreement before receiving detailed project information and credentials.

• Willingness to undergo a background check as part of the engagement process.

Benefits

• Fully remote, project-based engagement.

• Self-directed work environment with ownership of the end-to-end project scope.

• Flexible schedule, with timeline and estimated hours proposed by the successful candidate.

• Candidate-proposed compensation through an RFQ, allowing you to define your rate, estimated hours, timeline, and total project cost.

• Opportunity to work on meaningful HR data quality, automation, and workflow transformation initiatives.

• Exposure to employee master-data management, leave automation, audit controls, and HR process governance.

• Opportunity to design scalable solutions that can support additional teams and international branches.

• International and multicultural working environment.

• Collaboration with professionals across multiple countries and time zones.

• Limited meetings and management touchpoints, allowing for focused and autonomous execution.