Workday Integration Developer

Fairfield University - Fairfield, CT

Full-time

Hybrid - Fairfield, CT

Educational Services

About the position

Fairfield University is seeking a Workday Integration Developer to build and maintain an enterprise-class automation platform that supports key processes in Human Resources, Finance, and Student integrations. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain integrations for Workday applications, enhancing reporting capabilities and ensuring efficient solutions for the university's operational needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the research, design, development, testing, and delivery of new Workday and third-party systems integrations.
• Create technical design specs, perform unit & system integration testing, deploy and support all Workday and third-party system integrations.
• Understand business problems and build efficient solutions using the Workday platform and middleware tools.
• Configure and develop technical integrations using Workday Studio, Workday RaaS Integrations, EIB, and other tools.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to assess document requirements and define functional specifications.
• Manage Workday Integration analysis, system configurations, and deployment to production.
• Lead integration projects with third-party vendors from discovery to implementation.
• Participate in learning University business processes and their translation to automated processes.
• Monitor system health, scheduled jobs, alerts, and notifications for inbound and outbound data integrations.
• Participate in Workday semi-yearly release reviews and testing, identifying impact/enhancement opportunities.
• Create detailed integration specifications and field mappings to support the integration deployment life-cycle.
• Research integration failures, perform root cause analyses, and report findings to management.
• Collaborate with functional leads on system operations, security, and business processes related to integrations.
• Assist in configuring complex business processes and building calculated fields.

Requirements

• 2+ years' Workday Finance, HCM or Student experience, report writing and integrations.
• Experience with highly complex integrations preferably between Finance, Payroll, Admissions, Registration, and Academic Administration using Workday tools.
• Good knowledge of Workday HCM, Finance and/or Student module concepts & capabilities.
• Strong working knowledge of Workday Studio Development and EIB, RaaS, and Web Services.
• Strong working knowledge of SOAP, REST, XML and XSLT, Java.
• Workday integrations experience with a good understanding of integration design and testing concepts.
• Knowledge of all phases of system development lifecycle, including production support.
• Strong analytical skills, problem solving and troubleshooting abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in Higher Education is a plus.
• Current or Past Workday Studio Integration Certification will be a plus.
• Experience with Workday Studio, Orchestrate, Prism.
• Strong working knowledge of BIRT.
• Experience with a programming language: Java, Python.
• Experience with query languages: SQL, WQL.
• Knowledge of Kainos automated testing tools.

Benefits

• On-campus work preferred; remote and hybrid work arrangements considered upon request.
• Occasional travel to Workday training and annual Workday Rising Conference may be required.
• Potential for occasional evening and/or weekend work.