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From the employer's careers site First seen 2 Nov 2026

Workday Engineer

Salesforce New York, New York Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$148,500 - $223,900 annually

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Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineer with expertise in Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) to join our dynamic team. This is a hybrid role where one would spend time configuring, developing, and testing Workday functionalities and integrations.

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.

Requirements:

  • Workday certification in one or more areas - Workday Pro in function modules (HCM Core/Benefits/Compensation/Payroll/Time & Absence/Recruiting)
  • In-depth knowledge of Workday architecture, configuration, and integration.
  • 4+ years of implementation experience in Workday HRMS and Workday Integrations
  • Working knowledge of Workday Security, Business Processes, Reports, Calc Fields, Integrations framework, Studio and BIRT.
  • Well-versed with Workday Community and latest features/enhancements of Workday Releases.
  • Business analysis and requirements gathering abilities.
  • Experience in leading a full life cycle Workday implementations.
  • Working knowledge of data modeling design and relational database languages (SQL or SOQL).
  • Working Knowledge of Web Services (SOAP and REST).
  • Experience in defining test strategy, test plans, test cases, test execution, and defect reporting for Workday or any enterprise HR software applications.
  • Ability to effectively communicate status and risk to the team and manager
  • Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodology.
  • A related technical degree required.

Benefits:

  • Time off programs
  • Medical, dental, vision
  • Mental health support
  • Paid parental leave
  • Life and disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Employee stock purchasing program

The typical base salary range for this position is $148,500 - $223,900 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $178,900 - $246,000 annually.

Skills

Required

  • Workday HCM
  • Workday Integrations
  • Kainos
  • SQL
  • SOQL
  • Web Services (SOAP and REST)
  • Agile/Scrum

Nice to have

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You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://salesforce.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site/job/New-York---New-York/Systems-Engineer_JR363163

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