Lead ERP (Workday) Engineer

Lead ERP Engineer

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

CLA is growing and seeking to hire an experienced Lead ERP Engineer to join our talented Information Technology team. The position offers growth, flexibility, and a collaborative work environment.

In this position you should have the following; excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels. Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment. Most important, demonstrate a high level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation.

The Lead ERP Engineer with CLA's Enterprise Resource Management team improves and supports business ERP use and is responsible for configuration and support of ERP applications that includes developing solutions/enhancements, design, configuration, and maintenance.

How you'll create opportunities in this Lead Workday Engineer role:

• Create, maintain, and improve Workday configuration and integrations to other applications using specialized development tools.
• Complete requests from start to finish - gathering requirements, testing, publishing to production, and support.
• Provide technical solutions on configuration and new functionality related to Workday.
• Recommend configuration changes and enhancements to improve the Workday environment.
• Analyze existing and future needs for development and automation opportunities.
• Participate in project teams that are either directly associated with Workday or that use the information.
• Show technical expertise and assume responsibility for requests.
• Lead the intake and distribution of integration and specialty application service requests across multiple teams ensuring timely assignment based on expertise and workload. Proactively coordinate follow-ups and maintain visibility into progress to ensure resolution with defined SLAs.
• Communicate effectively and professionally, both verbally and in writing.
• Serve as escalated application support for CLA's Workday and lead technical resource for ERP Systems.
• Responsible for leading validation of vendor patches and/or upgrades to the environment.
• Responsible for leading evaluation and testing during Release Management, Feature Adoption, and Business Process Management.
• Review application updates and compare business needs for impact on existing configuration and to identify opportunities.
• Provide leadership of training initiatives by analyzing performance and training needs – recommend solutions, instructional strategies, and media.
• Provide implementation support, optimization related to business processes, security, and data integrity for the applications.
• Maintain familiarity with the progress and problems in assigned technical areas.
• Detail oriented team player who is comfortable with managing confidential information in a professional manner.

What you will need:

• Minimum of 6 years overall IT experience designing, implementing, or leading ERP, HRIS, financial reporting systems.
• 4+ years of experience with Workday Integrations
  - Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connectors, O4I
  - Orchestration for Integration preferred Workday Studio Starter Kit and Workday Web Service APIs experience preferred.
• Bachelor's degree or a combination of relevant experience and training may be considered in lieu of a degree.

Technical Competencies :

• Experience planning, facilitating, documenting, and managing functional and technical requirements.
• Experienced in Workday configuration, integration, and advanced reporting.
• Has a natural customer service approach to interactions with vendors and internal clients at all levels.
• Workday Pro Certification not required but preferred.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

Wellness at CLA

To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.