Workday Functional Developer

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Workday Functional Developer to support the configuration, enhancement, maintenance, and day-to-day operation of the organization's Workday platform. This role will focus primarily on Core HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, and Reporting, while providing ongoing production support to HR and business teams. The position is 100% onsite in San Antonio, TX, and does not offer remote or hybrid arrangements. FirstDay Foundation will not accept employment visa sponsorship or OPT extensions for this role.

Responsibilities

• Configure, maintain, test, and enhance Workday Core HCM, Recruiting, and Compensation functionality.
• Configure and support business processes related to hiring, staffing, job changes, employee lifecycle events, recruiting, and compensation.
• Support Recruiting processes including job requisitions, candidate management, offers, pre-hire activities, and hiring workflows.
• Configure and support compensation plans, eligibility rules, compensation changes, and review processes.
• Develop and maintain Workday custom reports, advanced reports, matrix reports, dashboards, and calculated fields.
• Gather reporting requirements and develop accurate and effective reports for business and operational needs.
• Manage and maintain Workday help desk tickets daily, including troubleshooting, prioritization, resolution, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
• Perform root-cause analysis for recurring production issues and implement sustainable solutions.
• Configure and maintain business process approvals, condition rules, validations, notifications, and routing.
• Support and troubleshoot Workday security, including security groups, domain security, business process security, and reporting access.
• Partner with HR and business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate business needs into effective Workday configurations.
• Support regression testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), production deployments, and post-production validation.
• Support Workday semiannual releases, including impact analysis, testing, and adoption of applicable functionality.
• Maintain functional documentation, configuration documentation, test scripts, and support procedures.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on Workday experience in functional configuration, implementation, enhancement, and production support.
• Strong functional expertise in Workday Core HCM, Recruiting, and Compensation.
• Strong experience with Workday Reporting, including custom reports, advanced reports, matrix reports, dashboards, and calculated fields.
• Strong understanding of Workday business process configuration and security.
• Experience managing and resolving Workday production support and help desk tickets.
• Experience with regression testing, UAT, Workday releases, and production deployments.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be able to work onsite in San Antonio, TX, five days per week.

Preferred Qualifications

• Workday certification(s) highly preferred, particularly in Core HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Reporting, or related functional areas.
• Experience supporting Workday in a complex or multi-organization environment.
• Experience identifying opportunities to streamline and automate HR processes.
• Experience working directly with HR, Recruiting, and Compensation stakeholders.

Education

Bachelor’s degree preferred.

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