3 days ago
Auckland, New ZealandSenior
Responsibilities
- Align with implementation teams to understand customer technical environments, data, and country-specific payroll requirements.
- Design, build, deploy, test, and roll out production-grade payroll software and integrations in live customer and partner environments.
- Integrate payroll systems with customer data sources, APIs, and identity and access systems.
- Troubleshoot implementation and production issues in real time, including ambiguous and undefined problem spaces.
- Translate field learnings and recurring implementation needs into improvements for the core product and AI-enabled deployment toolset.
- Partner with product, engineering, implementation, customer experience, solution consulting, and professional services teams across the region.
- Train and enable Customer Experience and Solution Consultant teams on payroll functionality, deployment processes, troubleshooting, and technical concepts.
- Support payroll country development teams with product and engineering work between implementation engagements.
Requirements
- At least 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.
- At least 3–5 years of Workday Payroll experience.
- Production programming experience in one or more of Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or Java.
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure and modern deployment practices involving CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience creating training content or enabling teams on technical or payroll concepts.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with technical and nontechnical customer stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
- Willingness to travel or work onsite with customers as needed.
- Workday Payroll certification is required.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, or partners.
- Remote home-office employees may join colleagues in company offices for important events.
- Reasonable accommodations are available during the application process and for qualified individuals using AI tools in employment decision-making.
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Workday
Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.