Lead, Workday Integration Engineer

$152,000 - $228,000/Yr

Snap Inc. - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

As a Lead Workday Integration Engineer at Snap Inc., you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the People Team's capabilities by designing and implementing complex integrations within the Workday ecosystem. Your primary responsibility will be to collaborate with various stakeholders to understand their business requirements, translating these into effective technology solutions. You will perform solution assessments across Workday integration technologies, including Prism, Studio, Extend, and Orchestrations, ensuring that the integrations align with Snap's operational needs. In this role, you will advise on Workday API capabilities and limitations, guiding the team on supported authentication methods. You will be tasked with designing and building scalable integrations using a suite of Workday Integration technologies such as Reports-as-a-Service, EIB, Document Transformation, Connectors, Workday Studio, and both Workday Web Services and REST APIs. Your expertise will also extend to developing and maintaining custom applications using the Workday Extend platform, leveraging technologies like Java, XML, XSLT, SOAP, REST, JavaScript, and Python. You will ensure the quality of integrations through thorough testing, including unit testing and user acceptance testing (UAT), while documenting edge cases and coordinating testing resources. Analyzing the current integration landscape to identify and address technical debt will be crucial, as will designing robust error-handling mechanisms to ensure effective logging and alerting. Your problem-solving skills will be essential in debugging and troubleshooting issues, performing root cause analysis, and providing resolutions. Additionally, you will partner with the HRIS/Workday configurations team to evaluate the technical impacts of configuration decisions, participate in full life-cycle HRMS system implementations, and contribute to data transformation and conversion efforts. Your role will also involve evaluating change requests and communicating their impacts on project timelines and budgets, as well as designing and delivering end-user technical training while maintaining comprehensive design specifications.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand complex and ambiguous business requirements, translating them into technology solutions.
• Perform solution assessments across Workday integration technologies, including Prism, Studio, Extend, and Orchestrations.
• Advise on Workday API capabilities and limitations, and supported authentication methods.
• Design and build complex, scalable integrations using Workday Integration technologies such as Reports-as-a-Service, EIB, Document Transformation, Connectors, Workday Studio, Workday Web Services API, and Workday REST API.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain custom applications using the Workday Extend platform and related technologies such as Java, XML, XSLT, SOAP, REST, JavaScript, and Python.
• Thoroughly test integrations through unit testing and UAT, creating/executing appropriate test scripts, coordinating testing resources, and documenting edge cases.
• Analyze the current integration landscape to identify and address technical debt related to functionality, performance, error handling, and scalability.
• Design and implement robust error-handling mechanisms to ensure appropriate logging and alerting.
• Debug and troubleshoot issues, perform root cause analysis, regression test, and provide resolutions.
• Apply business process understanding and critical thinking skills to find creative ways to integrate and automate processes that drive operational efficiency through custom Boomerang integrations and Workday Cloud extensions.
• Partner with HRIS/Workday configurations team to evaluate, communicate, and coordinate the technical impacts of associated configuration decisions.
• Participate in full life-cycle HRMS system implementations, including project management, architecting, development, and quality assurance.
• Contribute to data transformation, conversion, and purge efforts.
• Evaluate change requests and communicate their impacts to project timeline and budget.
• Design and deliver end-user technical training and maintain comprehensive design specifications.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience.
• 5+ years of demonstrated Workday integration development experience using Workday's integration tools (i.e., Reports-as-a-Service, Enterprise Interface Builder, Document Transformation, Connectors, Workday Studio, or similar).
• Strong proficiency in Workday Reporting, Integration, Business Process, and Security Frameworks.
• Impeccable attention to detail.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to creatively and quickly adapt to various situations.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment.
• Ability to lead cross-functional projects and collaborate effectively with team members at all levels.
• Ability to manage contending priorities successfully.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in working with agile methodologies and tools such as Jira.

Nice-to-haves

• 7+ years extensive experience working with Workday modules - Core HCM, Comp, Recruiting, Benefits, US Payroll, Absence Management & Time Tracking.
• 2+ years experience in Workday Extend development.
• Workday Pro certifications in Integration Administration/WD Studio.
• Strong experience using XSLT to transform XML data from Workday reports and WS responses.
• Strong experience using industry-standard web services technology, including WSDL, SOAP, REST, and WS-* standards.

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Comprehensive medical coverage
• Emotional and mental health support programs
• Compensation packages that include equity in the form of RSUs