Hris Integration Lead

INNOOVA is a Montreal-based boutique consulting firm founded in 2019 with a growing practices serving clients across the public sector, healthcare, finance, technology, and education. Our team offers the rigour of a recognized firm without the weight of large corporate structures: faster decisions, direct impact, and real ownership from day one.
As our next Integration Lead on the Dayforce practice, you won't just configure you'll shape integration strategy, run client workshops, and turn technical complexity into clarity for non-technical stakeholders. It's a hands-on lead role: you set the direction, and you still build. We're looking for someone who advises, partners, and transforms not just someone who configures. Less bureaucracy, more impact.
Partner with clients to design and deliver critical employee data integrations, ensuring seamless transmission of payroll, benefits, HR, and vendor data that supports successful Dayforce go-lives.
Lead end-to-end integration delivery across multiple concurrent implementation projects, coordinating clients, vendors, project teams, and offshore resources to meet project milestones and deadlines.
Translate complex business requirements into clear technical specifications and file mapping documents, enabling accurate data exchange between Dayforce and third‑party systems.
Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate integration risks resolving issues before they affect timelines, data accuracy, or client readiness for go‑live, while owning proactive, structured status communication with clients and internal teams.
Analyze, troubleshoot, and validate integration outputs, translating technical concepts into clear updates for technical and non‑technical audiences, and staying hands‑on: this is a lead role that still builds.
Contribute across multi‑sector mandates (government, healthcare, finance, and beyond), building a track record across industries.
The profile we are looking for 70% expert · 30% advisor
Technical Expertise (70%)
Consulting or systems‑integrator background, ideally within Dayforce or broader HR technology implementation projects.
Dayforce certification(s), particularly in Integrations or Data (an asset).
Experience with API/web service integrations, SFTP, common data formats (XML, JSON, CSV), and integration testing/troubleshooting required;
familiarity with encryption (e.G., PGP), middleware platforms, and Dayforce integration tools (e.G., Data Hub, flat files) is an asset.
Pre‑sales, RFP, or estimation experience (an asset).
French/English bilingualism is preferred. This role supports client mandates across Canada, including English‑language markets outside Quebec.
Ability to lead client‑facing workshops and translate technical integration concepts for technical and non‑technical audiences.
Comfort operating in ambiguity, in scale‑up‑style, non‑structured client consulting environments.
Proactive, structured project status communication: clear, concise, client ready.
Our must‑haves
Three (3) or more years of Dayforce studio integration experience (payroll, benefits, HR, and vendor data), covering flat file interfaces and data integrations from routine to complex/custom.
Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to client stakeholders (technical/non‑technical) with proven track record of managing complex HR transformation projects from inception to completion.
Own integration architecture and design decisions, challenge requirements when appropriate, and recommend scalable approaches, bringing a hands‑on lead mindset that sets direction without being limited to people management.
Consulting or systems‑integrator background, comfortable in ambiguous, non‑structured client environments.
What we offer
Competitive compensation.
Fully remote and occasional on‑site arrangements possible depending on mandates.
Group benefits from day one;
retirement plan after 3months.
Health spending account of $1,000.
Certifications may be supported by INNOOVA.
Paid holiday closure between Christmas and New Year's.
Real impact, fast growth without the corporate overhead.
INNOOVA is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and are committed to fair, bias‑aware, skills‑focused hiring. AI tools may support but never replace human judgment throughout our recruitment process. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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