Senior Engineer-Workforce Management

About the Role

Serve as the domain lead for Workday Time Tracking, Absence Management, and Payroll integrations.
Act as the primary technical lead for HR/Payroll, third-party vendors, and implementation partners.
Define target-state architecture, integration patterns (Core Connectors, EIB, Studio, Extend), and security models aligned to least-privilege principles.
Govern PECI and all outbound payroll integrations (e.g., ADP, CloudPay, Alight, NGA, local in-country vendors).

Responsibilities

• Design & Delivery
  Translate complex pay rules and region-specific labor requirements into Workday configuration (time codes, accruals, eligibility rules, time calculations).
• Perform gap analyses and author functional/technical specifications for new or enhanced business processes.
• Maintain documentation for system functionality and cross-functional processes while defining configuration standards, development conventions, and operational playbooks for releases and incident management.
• Lead biannual Workday release impact assessments, regression strategies, and feature adoption planning for Workday Time Tracking, Absence Management, and Payroll integrations.
• Integrations & Data Quality
  Design robust PECI frameworks including effective-dated logic, retroactivity, error handling, and reconciliation processes.
  Establish data quality rules and exception handling across HR, WFM, and Payroll ecosystems.
• Compliance & Controls
  Ensure solution designs comply with FLSA, local labor laws, union CBAs, and global privacy/security standards (GDPR, SOC, SOX as applicable).
• Implement controls for segregation of duties, approvals, retro events, and adjustments.
• Maintain audit documentation, test evidence, and control artifacts.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of Workday experience with strong expertise in Time Tracking, Absence Management, and multi-country Payroll PECI design.
• Hands-on experience with EIB, Core Connectors, Studio, Calculated Fields, and Workday Security.
• Deep knowledge of effective-dated HR data, retro pay impacts, time valuation, accruals, and eligibility logic.
• Experience with release management, tenant lifecycle governance, and regression testing.
• Strong documentation skills, including solution designs, data mappings, and workflow diagrams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Workday Pro or Partner certifications in Time, Absence, or Integrations (nice to have).
• Payroll expertise across US FLSA, Canadian provincial rules, and EU working time directives.
• Experience with Workday Reporting, Calculated Fields, and Report-as-a-Service patterns.
• Background in SOX/internal controls and audit readiness.