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Salesforce is looking for a Software Engineer (Senior Member of the Technical Staff) to join our growing Business Technology team. This is a key role in our Employee Success (HR) engineering team. This is a hybrid role where one would spend time configuring, developing, and testing Workday functionalities and integrations. In addition to Workday expertise, the individual should have knowledge of manually testing and expertise to leverage automation tools like Kainos.

You must have a solid background in Workday with hands-on experience Workday Payroll and a good understanding of industry best practices. You will be responsible for configuration, development, and testing through all phases of the implementation lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

Deliver Workday enhancements to support our existing Workday implementation, covering both functional and technical aspects.
Closely work with the internal Workday teams and business users to understand the business requirements, including working with 3rd party integrators.
Participate in product and feature design sessions with developers, designers, product managers, and business systems analysts.
Build test automation that is effective, scalable, and maintainable using tools such as Kainos.
Participate in and contribute to code reviews.
Diagnose, track and manage quality issues to resolution.
Ensure product quality meets stakeholder expectations and is responsible for creating test plans, test cases, test execution, and defect reporting.

Required Skills:

Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)
7+ years of proven experience in Workday (Implementation or support) with good experience of Workday HR modules.
Workday Pro/Partner certification in Workday HCM, Payroll, and Payroll Integrations (PECI, PICOF).
Experience in global Workday implementation/ support especially in Workday Payroll for North America & Canada and Payroll Integrations in EMEA, APAC countries.
3+ years of hands-on experience in Workday Payroll, PECI and PICOF
Working knowledge of Workday Security framework, Business Processes, Reports, Calc Fields
Solid knowledge of HR systems structure, functions and processes - Sound understanding of interdependencies between various systems and downstream impacts
Good Understanding of Integrations framework - SFTP, File Encryption and Connectors.
Well-versed with Workday Community and latest features/enhancements of Workday Releases.
Experience in defining test strategy, test plans and defect reporting for Workday or other enterprise HR software applications.
Ability to effectively communicate status and risk to the team and manager
Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodology.

Desired Skills:

Workday Pro/Partner certification in Workday Integrations, with working knowledge on Integrations framework, Studio and BIRT.
Experience of working on other Workday modules/ technology like Recruiting, Compensation, Benefits, Absence, Time Tracking and Workday Extend
Advance experience in working as part of a Scrum team practicing Agile development methodologies.
High level knowledge of Salesforce platform or Mulesoft Cloud hub is a huge plus.

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Software Engineering SMTS - Workday Payroll

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