Workday Integration Developer

About the role

The Workday Integration Developer plays a crucial role in Fairfield University's enterprise systems team. They are responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining integrations between Workday and third-party systems, ensuring seamless data flow across Human Resources, Finance, and Student applications.

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 of all Workday and third-party system integrations.
• Understand the business problems and build efficient solutions using the Workday platform, middleware tools, and the related capabilities of source and target systems.
• Configure and develop technical integrations using Workday Studio, Workday RaaS Integrations, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Complex Calculated Fields, Web Services, Workday Custom Reports, Web Services, XSLT, and xPath.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to assess document requirements, review design, and define functional specifications.
• Manage Workday Integration analysis, system configurations, and deployment to production.
• Lead integration projects with third-party vendors from discovery, design, development, testing and implementation.
• Actively participate in learning University business processes and how they translate to manual, semi-automated and automated processes.
• Understand the University enterprise systems portfolio of third-party applications and how they interact with Workday Integrations.
• Administration, monitor, track progress, and resolve enterprise system support tickets and collaborate and support functional leads with escalated issues.
• Create detailed integration specifications, field mappings, and designs to support the entire integration deployment life-cycle.
• Research integration failures, perform root cause analyses, and report back to management and business leaders.
• Collaborate with functional leads, analysts, and system administrators on system operations, security, business processes and how it relates to integrations.
• Assist functional leads in configuring complex business processes, including building calculated fields and advanced routing rules.
• Assume additional responsibilities as required.

Technical Leadership and Project Management

• Maintain current knowledge of Workday products, administration best practices, and agile methodology best practices.
• Stay current with Workday releases, updates, new features, evaluating their potential impact on the University’s processes.
• Research new releases and upgrades and collaborate with the Workday team to provide recommendations regarding their use by the organization.
• Serve as the subject matter expert on large collections of Workday integrations.
• Partner with business stakeholders to determine problem areas and overall impact of projects.
• Develop plans to move forward with the overall end-to-end enterprise systems strategy.
• Understand data flows and system usage between internal systems and Workday, driving alignment with other system owners.
• Facilitate discussions when needed in enterprise user group meetings.

Reporting & Audits

• Serve as a Workday reporting authority, staying current with Workday roadmap to continuously optimize reporting capabilities, leveraging a deep understanding of Workday's current functionalities, design concepts, and integration points.
• Translate business requirements into impactful Workday reporting solutions, including the development of discovery boards, reports, dashboards, and insightful analytics.
• Produce and review audit reports to assess integration performance and error handling.
• Maintain and enhance reporting frameworks to support operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 2+ years’ Workday Finance, HCM or Student experience, report writing and integrations.
• Experience with highly complex integrations preferably between Finance, Payroll, Admissions, Registration, Advancement 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, Workday EIB, RaaS, and Web Services.
• Strong working knowledge of SOAP, REST, XML and XSLT, Java.
• Workday integrations experience required with a good understanding of integration design and testing concepts and integration frameworks (e.g., middleware, transformation logic).
• Knowledge of all phases of system development lifecycle, including production support.
• Strong analytical skills, problem solving and troubleshooting abilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with a focus on documentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Highly organized with the ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively while demonstrating a sense of urgency.