# Senior People Technology Engineer (Workday Time & Absence)

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: Tallinn, Estonia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior People Technology Engineer (Workday Time & Absence) at Wise, you will act as the principal technical product partner and Domain SME for our global absence and time-tracking architecture.

You will possess the autonomy to own the domain strategy and navigate highly complex legislative environments across the EMEA region and beyond.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading the hands-on architectural design and configuration of Workday Time Tracking and Absence Management

- Building complex, highly customized statutory leave plans, time entry validations, and holiday logic for our global workforce

- Taking end-to-end responsibility for the technical health, reliability, and compliance of the T&A domain

- Ensuring all setups meet strict SOX compliance, financial audit requirements, and local labor laws

- Acting as a true product partner to senior regional People Operations leaders (primarily EMEA)

- Translating complex legal requirements into scalable Workday functionality and advising stakeholders on system capabilities and best practices

- Overseeing the resolution of complex technical escalations and identifying root causes in our existing absence setup

- Architecting long-term, scalable fixes rather than temporary patches

- Defining the long-term technical roadmap for T&A in alignment with Wise's global expansion plans

- Mentoring and being an escalation point for standard contributors (IC2s) within the regional operational model

To qualify for this role, you will need:

- Extensive, senior-level experience in Workday Time Tracking and Absence Management configuration

- Experience building complex, multi-country statutory leave plans and time-entry rules from scratch

- Proven experience managing SOX controls, internal audits, and stringent legislative changes within an HRIS environment

- The ability to own a domain strategy independently, make high-level architectural decisions, and act as a peer to senior business leaders

- An analytically minded approach, capable of translating convoluted legal jargon and local operational nuances into clean, effective system logic

- An egoless approach to work, a deep focus on data security/confidentiality, and a commitment to high-quality testing and documentation

Nice to have:

- Workday Core HCM, Time Tracking, or Absence Management certifications

- Experience in broader Workday modules (e.g., Payroll integrations, Compensation)

- Experience implementing Workday for new country launches in a hyper-growth environment

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## Skills

### Required
- Workday Time Tracking
- Workday Absence Management
- SOX compliance
- HRIS
- Technical Architecture

### Nice to have
- Workday Core HCM
- Payroll integrations
- Compensation

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