- Own the modernization of payroll platforms, deciding what moves from legacy operational tools and sequencing each step to protect payroll.
- Price the costs and risks of keeping legacy systems running, including support escalations, manual fixes, and missed pay dates.
- Own the product direction for the payroll data-model redesign with payroll engineering leadership, including evaluating event-driven streaming against full resynchronization.
- Validate payroll data models against the company's canonical entity models using real client examples.
- Own access and audit discipline for payroll systems, including permission granularity, least-privilege exceptions, deny-by-default rollouts, and feature-flag discipline.
- Coordinate with security and build on existing platform methods for recording who did what.
- Own payroll data-retention positions, relevant regulatory changes, and the audit interface with governance, risk, and compliance.
- Test assumptions about payroll systems, document their limits and latency curves, and publish findings for leadership.
- Run quarterly payroll roadmap reviews, provide weekly written leadership updates, and coordinate operational readiness with payroll services.