Senior Applications Solution Engineer, HR and Finance (Workday)

Key Responsibilities

• Developing an in-depth understanding of the HR, Finance, and Legal systems, and the business processes they enable, to review current technical capabilities and process effectiveness, assess opportunities and needs, and inform, advise, and own the technical elements of the application services.
• Leading technical requirements gathering sessions with the HR, Finance, and Legal leadership teams, understanding business capabilities, developing, and communicating high-level detailed design solutions for complex requirements, driving proof of concepts, defining technical roadmaps and strategies, aligning to IT best practices and priorities.
• Acting as a subject matter expert in Workday shared service technologies, tracking advancement of alternative and emerging solutions, conducting market scans, and championing adoption of relevant new solutions through partnering with businesses and IT stakeholders.
• Collaborating with cross functional business, application development support, architecture, IT, and shared service teams on the design implementation of applications.
• Collaborating with users to incorporate feedback and influence the application/product design and functionality.
• Overseeing and directing 3rd party/vendor/offshore/managed service provider contracting teams and internal stakeholders from the project initiation through to the effective and timely execution of the hands-on technical work ensuring adherence to compliance standards, service level agreements, and business requirements, resulting in consistent and reliable service delivery.

Qualification & Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and/or 8 – 10 years of related experience.
• Experience partnering directly with and advising non-technical senior business leaders as a technical subject matter expert, including assessing, evaluating, and prioritizing shared service Workday solutions to support business needs to drive best practices.
• Experience understanding business capabilities and as input to develop and drive strategic technology roadmaps- leading technical requirements gathering with business and IT partners, developing, and communicating high-level detailed design solutions for complex requirements, driving proof of concepts, and defining technical roadmaps and strategies that assess for risk and alignment to IT best practices.
• Demonstrated ability delegating, monitoring, and evaluating the hands-on technical execution of work completed by both internal and vendor-based/3rd party/managed service provider teams, directly owning solutions to ensure time, productivity, quality, and best practice standards are met to ensure successful project completion.
• Experience leading Workday technology solutions, including leading implementations and integrations.
• Experience with cloud technologies (Azure and/or AWS and/or Google Cloud).
• Experience with APIs, SaaS, PaaS
• Experience with Dev Ops
• Experience with SDLC Automation
• Experience leading via Agile and/or Waterfall

Benefits

In addition to compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes: Health/dental/vision, life insurance, FSA and HSA, 401(k) plan, Employee Assistant Program, Back-up Care for Children, Adults and Elders and many health and wellness initiatives. We also offer a Wellness program that enables employees to participate in health initiatives to reduce their insurance premiums.