Workday Senior Engineer

Join a great place to work with Mission Square, a financial services corporation with approximately $79 billion in assets under management and administration and over 600 employees. Founded in 1972, Mission Square is dedicated to the retirement needs of public sector employees. We focus on delivering results-oriented retirement and retiree health savings plans, education, investment options, personalized guidance, and related services to public sector participants in more than 9,200 plans and nearly 2 million participant accounts.

We strive to make the administration of retirement programs as easy and cost-effective as possible. We have an extraordinary talent base and invite you to consider joining Mission Square.$ - $The Senior Engineer, Workday Platform is responsible for the governance, configuration, support, enhancement, stability, and strategic administration of the organization's Workday platform, including Workday HCM, Payroll, Financials, Procurement, and Adaptive Planning.

This role coordinates and oversees configuration completed by module experts and partners closely with HR, Payroll, Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Technology, and external service providers to ensure changes are aligned across the Workday platform, business processes are effectively enabled through technology solutions, and potential downstream impacts are identified and addressed.

Essential Functions for this role include:

Serve as the primary technical owner for Workday HCM, Payroll, Financials, Procurement, and Adaptive Planning, ensuring consistent configuration, ongoing system effectiveness, stability, and business alignment across the platform.

Partner with HR, Payroll, Finance, Accounting, Procurement, and Technology leaders to understand business priorities and translate requirements into scalable system solutions.

Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, software vendors, managed service providers, and Technology teams.

Manage relationships with Workday and third-party support providers, including service delivery oversight, issue escalation, performance management, and periodic service reviews.

Oversee application support activities and ensure internal and external support resources meet service level commitments.

Coordinate and govern the intake, evaluation, prioritization, and approval of enhancement requests across HR, Payroll, Finance, Accounting, Procurement, and Planning functions, ensuring proposed solutions are aligned across Workday modules.

Lead the Workday change control process, including assessment of business and technical impacts, cross-module dependencies, security and integration implications, prioritization, resource allocation, testing, scheduling, deployment, and post-deployment validation activities.

Develop and maintain the Workday platform roadmap and configuration standards aligned with business objectives, technology strategies, and vendor product direction.

Lead planning and execution of Workday biannual releases and other platform upgrades, including cross-module impact assessments, regression testing coordination, stakeholder communications, training activities, deployment readiness, and post-deployment validation.

Evaluate new Workday and Adaptive Planning functionality and recommend adoption opportunities that improve business processes, controls, reporting, platform stability, and user experience.

Manage and deliver Workday enhancement initiatives and projects, including scope definition, requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, coordination and review of configuration completed by module experts, resource planning, budget management, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support.

Performs other duties as assigned

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