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Senior Software Development Engineer

Workday Auckland, New Zealand Hybrid senior full-time

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Description

We're seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join the APAC Payroll Country Factory Team. You'll play a key role in building new native Workday payrolls across the APAC and ASEAN region, using AI-driven tools and processes.

Responsibilities:

  • Align with implementation teams on customer projects to understand their technical environment, data, and country-specific requirements
  • Collaborate on design, build, and deployment of production-grade software and integrations inside live customer and partner environments
  • Guide integration of payroll systems with customer data sources, APIs, and identity/access systems
  • Help troubleshoot and resolve implementation and production issues in real time
  • Turn field learnings and recurring implementation needs into feedback that improves the core product and the AI toolset
  • Act as a trusted technical partner for implementation teams' engineering and business stakeholders
  • Work closely with product, engineering, and implementation partners across the region
  • Help train and enable the deployment toolset on new capabilities, workflows, and lessons learned from the field
  • Train Customer Experience team members and Solution Consultants on payroll functionality, deployment processes, and troubleshooting

Requirements:

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience building, shipping, and supporting production-grade code
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience integrating software with external systems, APIs, and enterprise data sources
  • 3-5+ Years experience on Workday Payroll
  • Comfortable writing production code in one or more languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or Java)
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern deployment practices
  • Strong communication skills, comfortable partnering directly with customer stakeholders
  • Able to work independently in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
  • Workday certifications required: Payroll

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