Sr Software Engineer - HCM (Workday)

Company: The Walt Disney Company (Corporate)
Location: Kissimmee
Posted on: March 15, 2023

Job Description:

At Disney, we're storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt's passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world-a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from streaming, theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses.

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. Our team drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

You will be working in a sophisticated, exciting, fast-paced and innovative environment, with other like-minded architects, engineers and product managers. Our architects and engineers are diverse, inquisitive, innovative, solutions-oriented, respectful, highly collaborative and continuous learners.

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for designing and developing software in supporting HCM (Human Capital Management) technology platforms with focus on Workday HCM Integration.

Specifically, this role will be responsible for developing software for:

• Core HR
• Compensation
• Talent Acquisition
• Payroll integration
• Talent Management
• Core Benefits
• Learning Management Job Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop and test high performance, highly scalable and flexible software solutions with focus on Workday integrations between internal and external systems
  • Translate business requirements to integration design specification
  • Develop, test and deploy Workday integrations using Workday Studio, RaaS, Enterprise Interface Building (EIB), BIRT, Workday Extend.
  • Experience with Complex Calculated Fields, Web Services, Workday Custom Reports, Web Services, XSLT, JSON, and xPath.
  • Experience with Workday SDLC.
  • Assess Workday twice-yearly releases and identify impact and opportunities to support new features.
  • Knowledge of Workday Security Integration framework
  • Knowledge of Single Sign-On concepts.
  • Troubleshoot critical incidents by conducting root cause analysis and identifying solutions
  • Experience with integration design using data integration best practices including APIs, Messaging Bus, Pub-Sub, ETL
  • Must have technical knowledge to be able to work with other teams, including third parties, Enterprise applications and infrastructure teams
  • Partner with architects, business architects and business systems analysts and other software and data engineers on project teams, following Solutions Architecture model Required Qualifications:
    • 5+ years of Workday technical skills (PECI, Studio, Core Connecter, Web Services API, BIRT, EIB).
    • 5+ years of experience developing Workday Integrations with consumers.
    • Workday consultant or client pro-certified: Workday Studio/Advanced Integrations
    • Background and understanding of broad HR systems architecture and data flow
    • Extensive knowledge of best-practice business process and technologies for HR functions, focusing on Architecture and Integration to legacy-based systems
    • Deep knowledge of Workday HCM: the business processes, security frameworks, and advanced reporting
    • Understand complexities and nuances with Workday reporting, especially involving different organizational hierarchies within Workday
    • A strong business orientation combined with deep technical skills.
    • Experience with both waterfall and agile delivery methodologies
    • Expertise in secure software development and secure coding practices
    • Expertise in developing cloud-based and open-source software solutions
    • Expertise in comprehensive testing lifecycle inclusive of Unit Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression Testing, and defect remediation.
    • Ability to address complex problems
    • Innovative thinking and embraces innovation by constantly seeking new or contrary ideas and approaches to what has been done in the past.
    • Ability to lead technical specification working session with functional and vendor teams.
    • Collaboration skills and ability to establish and manage effective working relationships in a matrixed organizational structure
    • Good communication and presentation skills, both oral and written. Ability to communicate well to both technical and business audiences.
    • Results oriented, biased toward action
    • Works independently, receives minimal guidance
    • Keeps proficiency in new technologies and shares knowledge with peers and introduces new technologies
    • Chooses optimism and calls out cynicism and unproductive behavior
    • Demonstrates stamina, resilience, and perseverance under trying circumstances Desired Qualifications:
      • Workday Extend
      • Middleware tools/technologies
      • SAP HR ABAP
      • Lead test execution
      • Experience with GitHub (CI-CD) repositories
      • Experience with Microsoft Office productivity tools Required Education:
        • BS Computer Science, information systems or related technology field or equivalent work experience. Preferred Education:
          • MS Computer Science or related technology field
          • Workday Integration Certification The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $ 136,038 to $182,490 per year and in Seattle, Washington is $142,516 to $191,180 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
            
            

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