Workday Engineer

Blue Yonder

Job Title:

Staff Workday Engineer

Location:

US - Remote Dallas preferred

Up to 15% travel

We are seeking an experienced Staff Workday Engineer to join our HR Technology team as an individual contributor. Reporting to the Director of HR Technology, this role will help drive the strategy, solution design, delivery, and optimization of Workday and related HR technology initiatives.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on Workday professional who can translate business needs into effective technology solutions and drive initiatives from concept through delivery. The role will support a broad portfolio of HR Technology initiatives, with particular focus on areas such as Talent, Performance, Compensation, Workday Security, Reporting & Analytics, and Workforce Planning.

The successful candidate will work closely with HR Technology team members, HR and business stakeholders, external partners, and our offshore delivery team to deliver solutions, resolve issues, and drive strategic initiatives forward.

• Partner with HR business stakeholders to translate HR and Talent strategies into scalable Workday solutions.
• Lead Workday initiatives across areas such as Talent, Performance, Compensation, Security, Benefits, Reporting, and Core HCM.
• Serve as a senior Workday subject matter expert and trusted advisor to HR, Talent, Compensation, IT, and business stakeholders.
• Drive initiatives from requirements gathering and solution design through configuration, testing, deployment, and post-production support.
• Assess business requirements, evaluate solution options, identify dependencies, and recommend practical and scalable technology solutions.
• Design and optimize Workday business processes, workflows, approvals, notifications, validations, security controls, and exception handling.
• Develop and maintain Workday reports, dashboards, calculated fields, data sources, prompts, filters, and analytics to support operational and strategic decision-making.
• Support Workday Security initiatives, including security role design, access controls, business process security, security reviews, and troubleshooting.
• Support Talent, Performance, and Compensation initiatives through solution design, process optimization, configuration, reporting, and data analysis.
• Support workforce planning and financial planning initiatives, including Workday Adaptive Planning where applicable.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve HR processes using Workday capabilities and emerging HR technology.
• Review solution designs, configurations, integrations, and impact assessments to ensure scalability, maintainability, security, compliance, and alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Partner with the offshore HR Technology/Workday team by providing requirements, solution direction, guidance, and quality oversight.
• Collaborate with external Workday consultants and implementation partners to ensure solutions meet business requirements and follow Workday best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex functional, reporting, security, and data issues and drive issues through resolution.
• Participate in Workday releases, enhancements, integrations, production support, and major system changes.
• Evaluate new Workday capabilities and help determine how they can support Blue Yonder's HR Technology strategy.
• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment using Jira to manage epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, priorities, dependencies, and delivery.

• 6+ years of Workday experience, with hands‑on experience in Workday solution design, configuration, enhancements, and production support.
• Strong hands‑on expertise in Workday HCM and experience in one or more areas such as Talent Optimization, Performance,…