Technology and Data Lead, Human Capital Management (Contract)

Job Description

Job Description

Income Research + Management

Income Research + Management is a Boston-based, privately owned, fixed income asset management firm. IR+M delivers strong performance and consistent results through a rigorous, bottom-up security selection process and strives to provide best-in-class client service to our 900+ institutional and private wealth clients.

Founded in 1987 and located in the heart of Boston’s financial district, IR+M employs 200+ full time professionals and currently manages $135+ Billion in assets. We offer industry-leading benefits, as well as a challenging, collegial, and rewarding workplace with high levels of employee engagement.

Our culture is driven by a diverse workforce and rooted in our Core Values of being “IR+M”:

Open Contract Position: Technology and Data Lead, Human Capital Management

Job Description :

The Human Capital Management (HCM) Technology Lead is responsible for designing, developing, and delivering dashboards, metrics, and reporting solutions that enable data-driven decision-making across the HCM and the organization. This role serves as the primary owner of the HRIS data outputs and related technologies, ensuring systems are optimized, accurate, and aligned with business needs. This individual partners closely with HCM leadership to translate data into meaningful insights, streamline processes, and enhance employee experience through data-driven insights that enable HCM leadership to proactively improve engagement, and retention outcomes. This role also leverages strong compensation acumen to support reporting and analysis related to salary structures, pay equity, and total rewards. This role reports directly to the Head of Human Capital Management with a matrix reporting line into the Head of Technology.

Job duties and Responsibilities :

Data, Dashboards & Reporting

• Act as the primary steward of confidential HR data, ensuring appropriate aggregation, anonymization, and ethical use in all analytics and reporting.

• Develop and maintain interactive dashboards, visualizations, and reporting tools that communicate key HCM metrics in a clear and actionable way.

• Support the entire compensation process end to end through technology solutions and tools for both HCM and managers to make sound decisions – with access to both internal comparisons, history, and market data.

• Provide analytical support for all compensation including total rewards planning and reporting, salary benchmarking, pay equity analysis

• Partner with Head of HCM to identify reporting needs, KPIs, and insights that support workforce planning, talent management, performance, talent acquisition systems, and other strategic initiatives.

• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and integrity of data across all reporting outputs.

• Translate complex data sets into visuals and narratives that support decision-making at all levels of the organization.

• Conduct trend analyses, forecasting, and scenario modeling as needed.

HRIS Optimization

• Serve as the primary owner of HRIS data structure, reporting configurations, and analytics output.

• Identify opportunities to enhance and maximize HRIS through new features, automation, integrations, and process improvements.

• Develop and maintain documentation, system configurations, and data governance standards.

• Train HR team members and end users on system functionality, dashboards, and reporting tools.

Compliance, Data Privacy & Quality

• Maintain strong data governance practices to ensure complete confidentiality, compliance, and security of employee information.

• Monitor and improve data accuracy by regularly auditing HRIS and reporting sources.

• Support federal, state, and internal compliance reporting through accurate and timely data extraction

• Partner with key stakeholders to design technology-enabled solutions that support talent acquisition, onboarding, performance management, compensation, and employee engagement.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or related field; equivalent experience considered.

• 5+ years of experience

• Hands-on familiarity with ADP data structure and experience with ADP reporting extracts, custom reports and data feeds is a plus

• Advanced skills in data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).

• Demonstrated ability to turn complex data into clear, compelling visuals and insights.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to partner with technical and non-technical

• Data-driven mindset

• Curiosity and continuous improvement

• Business acumen

• Attention to detail

• Confidentiality and integrity