Workday Developer [SK-22875]

Aquent is proud to partner with a leading organization that stands at the forefront of its industry, where innovation and technology are the driving forces behind significant impact. This company is deeply committed to enhancing user experiences and transforming complex processes into seamless, intuitive solutions. As part of this team, you will contribute to a culture that values collaboration, pushes boundaries, and directly supports the operational excellence vital to thousands of employees.

Are you a skilled professional ready to make a tangible impact on critical HR and business operations? We are seeking dynamic individuals to join a forward-thinking team where your expertise will be pivotal in shaping robust integration and application solutions. In this role, you won’t just be writing code; you’ll be building the foundational systems that empower our workforce, streamline essential processes, and ensure data integrity across vital platforms. Get ready to tackle exciting challenges, innovate with cutting-edge tools, and see your work directly contribute to the success and efficiency of a large-scale enterprise!

What You’ll Do & The Impact You’ll Make

• Support and build assigned integration and application work across HR platforms including HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Recruiting, Identity Management, and vendor management systems, ensuring adherence to organizational patterns and standards.
• Develop and maintain integrations with key benefits providers (such as Kaiser, Optum, and Aetna) for critical processes like Open Enrollment.
• Construct integrations, services, and applications utilizing Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, and REST/SOAP/GraphQL APIs.
• Develop Workday Extend applications, including custom objects, validations, and orchestration-backed workflows, aligned with company-approved designs.
• Implement observability for assigned integrations, including dashboards, metrics, alerts, and runbooks, to meet established standards.
• Resolve high-severity production issues by identifying root causes and implementing effective remediation strategies.
• Coordinate the delivery of assigned workstreams, preparing design documentation for review and providing accurate project estimates.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, meticulously documenting decisions and design trade-off rationales within internal systems.

Key Projects You’ll Support Each project involves either a new integration build or an enhancement to an existing one, delivered to defined requirements:

• Offer Management Integration: Build a new integration to surface offer data in Workday, supporting a larger redesign that will move offer letter generation into Workday Docs.
• Compensation Survey Management Integration: Develop a new integration between Workday and a selected compensation survey platform, replacing a manual spreadsheet-based workflow.
• Immigration Integration: Create a new inbound integration from an immigration case management platform into Workday’s Visa module, ensuring accurate and compliant visa data for employees.
• Equity and Payroll Integration Enhancements: Enhance existing Workday ↔ Schwab integrations to address payroll tax compliance, including local taxation, equity withholding corrections, state disability mapping, and readiness for international payroll.
• Contingent Worker System Integration: Close identified gaps between HR systems supporting contingent worker redesign, improving data completeness and automated processing of contract end dates.
• International Entity Integrations: Develop new integrations and data feeds supporting international entities, including payroll, benefits, and statutory reporting connections.

Must-Have Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of software or application engineering experience, with significant time spent on platform or enterprise systems.
• 4+ years of hands-on Workday development experience across integrations (Studio, EIB, Core Connectors), Extend, Orchestration, and RaaS/WQL.
• Highly skilled in building with REST/SOAP and GraphQL, and proficient in data transformation patterns (XML, XSLT, JSON).
• Demonstrated ownership of integration architecture, including event-driven patterns, API gateway patterns, and fault-tolerant design.
• Deep understanding of the Workday data model and security fundamentals (domains, segments, business processes).
• Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university in Engineer…