Senior Engineer – Workday Payroll

Role Overview

• Supports the payroll, time and absence functionality of the Workday HCM product.
• Partners with other Workday engineers as well as customers in People Group (Human Resources) to design new and renovate existing functionality in those SKUs.
• Responsible for consulting with business partners, including those working in human resource and finance functions, report writers and integration engineers to scope and plan work, capture business process requirements, define configuration, create and lead testing for changes and effectively implement change into a production environment.
• INNOVATE and BUILD new systems, IMPROVE and ENHANCE existing systems and IDENTIFY new opportunities to apply knowledge to solve critical problems.
• LEAD Strategy and Execution of a technical roadmap to increase velocity of delivering products and new engineering capabilities.
• Provides technical and thought leadership to the enterprise.
• Collaborates with team members, customers, and other engineering teams to ensure the security, availability, and performance of containerized applications.
• Utilizes and supports the deployment, scaling and continuous improvement of Workday as a primary product that enables Payroll, Time and Absence processes and data flow.
• Holds accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions.
• Influences and builds vision with team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems for building enterprise class business applications.
• Acts as role model and mentors and coaches engineers to strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.
• Determines and supports resource requirements, evaluates operational processes, measures outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrates adaptability, sponsors continuous learning.
• Adheres to the Code of Conduct, company policies, and operating principles.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education or work experience
• 4+ years of experience configuring Workday Payroll SKU required.
• Additional experience in Benefits, Time and Attendance SKUs preferred but not required
• 2+ years working as a Payroll practitioner, helping to process payroll for a US corporation
• 1+ years supporting Open Enrollment and/or benefit vendor change
• Must be able to follow complex instructions, resolve conflicts or facilitate conflict resolution, and have strong organization/priority setting skills
• Must be able to handle competing priorities and projects
• Must be able to learn and apply large amounts of technical and procedural information, and follow processes that have been published
• Must be knowledgeable of software coding and following standards and processes that have been published and the guidelines for the design
• Must be able to provide system training to team members as needed
• Must be able to communicate in a clear, concise, professional oral or written manner, to be understood by customers, clients, co-workers and other employees of the organization.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility
• We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.