Workday Integration Developer

Job Description:

Position Overview:

Fairfield University is looking for a Workday Integration Developer to build and maintain an enterprise class automation platform for the University. This platform will power the key processes in Human Resources, Finance, and Student integrations.

The Workday Integration Developer is a member of the Enterprise Systems team at Fairfield University. In this role, you will support the Director of Enterprise Systems and the cross-functional leads by serving as a technical resource for the Workday HCM, Finance, Payroll and Student applications. You will design, develop and maintain inbound and outbound Enterprise Systems integrations. In addition, with your technical expertise, you will collaborate with functional leads and analysts to develop advanced reports, complementing their efforts and enhancing our overall reporting capabilities.

The ideal candidate will have prior Workday technical experience, and prior software programming experience.

Primary Responsibilities:

Integrations Development 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 xPathCollaborate 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 Be proactive in understanding inbound and outbound data integrations, monitoring system health, scheduled jobs, alerts and notifications

Participate in Workday semi-yearly release reviews and testing by identifying impact/enhancement opportunities associated with new release features/functionality. Coordinate integration testing pre-requisites for releases.

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  a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning

Serve as the subject matter expert on large collections of Workday integrations

Work 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

Partner with business stakeholders and ITS team members to align on objectives and programs

Help manage the timelines and deliverables within large, multi-month projects

Understand data flows and system usage between internal systems and Workday, driving alignment with other system owners

Be an active participant in enterprise user group meetings and facilitate discussions when needed

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…