Platform Engineer
British Columbia Investment Management Corporation3 months ago
Victoria, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the technical delivery and continuous improvement of Workday integrations and platform capabilities.
- Design, develop, test, maintain, and troubleshoot inbound and outbound Workday integrations.
- Develop Workday reports, calculated fields, dashboards, and reporting solutions across Finance, HCM, Payroll, and Procurement.
- Monitor integration health, scheduled jobs, alerts, and notifications, and lead root cause analysis and remediation.
- Assess semi-annual Workday releases, develop readiness plans, and coordinate integration testing prerequisites.
- Set integration architecture standards and lead technical design reviews across the Workday ecosystem.
- Contribute to platform governance, change management, security administration, access controls, risk assessments, and security assessments.
- Lead complex integration projects and stakeholder engagements and act as the primary technical escalation point.
- Mentor, train, and provide guidance to Platform Engineers.
- Develop technical documentation, integration specifications, field mappings, and standard operating procedures.
- Support Agile delivery practices including backlog development, sprint or increment planning, delivery tracking, and retrospectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
- Hands-on Workday integration development experience, preferably in a mid-to-large enterprise environment.
- Workday security experience, including PGP encryption and integration security configuration.
- Experience supporting Workday HCM and at least one of Financials, Payroll, or Procurement.
- Proficiency with Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, and Workday Orchestrate.
- Strong technical skills with XSLT, including ETV and XTT, XML, JSON, SOAP, and REST APIs.
- Hands-on Workday development experience with orchestration, PMD scripting, and UI components.
- Proficiency with Workday Report Writer, including Advanced, Matrix, and Composite reports, calculated fields, and BIRT reporting.
- Experience with Agile and DevOps methods and practices.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and present solutions to leadership.
- Experience leading integration architecture decisions, setting team standards, mentoring engineers, and leading technical design reviews.
- Track record of leading semi-annual release planning across multiple Workday modules.
- Workday integration certification in Integration Core, Studio, and/or Extend is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with Workday Prism Analytics and working knowledge of SQL, data modeling, and ETL concepts are preferred.
- Experience with Azure or cloud-based integration patterns is preferred.
- Demonstrated proficiency using AI assistants and/or agentic tools to accelerate Workday configuration, troubleshooting, and automation is preferred.
- Exposure to the investment management or financial services industry is preferred.
Benefits
- The role can be based in the Victoria or Vancouver office.
- The organization works in person with flexibility to work remotely one day per week.
- The position is open until filled.
About British Columbia Investment Management Corporation
British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) provides investment management for British Columbia’s public sector pension plans, insurance funds, and other institutional clients. It invests globally across public markets, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and mortgages, operating as an in-house asset manager and government agency. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Victoria, BCI is among Canada’s major public sector asset managers by assets under management.