Principal Integrations and Extend Analyst

The Principal Integrations and Extend Analyst, as part of the Employee Services team, plays a pivotal role in enhancing business processes through the strategic use of Workday’s Extend, integration, and reporting functionalities. This position is entrusted with designing, developing, and maintaining Extend applications, as well as creating and managing integrations between Workday and other systems to ensure accurate and seamless data exchange. Additionally, this role leads the development of complex reports and dashboards to provide actionable insights to stakeholders across the organization.

Essential Functions:

Integrations & Reporting

• Design, develop, configure, and test complex Workday reports (advanced, matrix, composite, BIRT) utilizing Workday Report Writer and Report Designer, as well as other tools
• Utilize Workday capabilities like Data Sources, Discovery Boards, Worksheets, Dashboards and report scheduling to create automated and scalable reporting solutions
• Develop, maintain and deploy Workday integrations, such as EIBs, RaaS solutions, and cloud connectors.  Integrating various cloud products such as Concur, SAP, SAC, Azure, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and working with the business to bring on additional integrations.
• Design and implement web services using SOAP and REST protocols.
• Consult with internal stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Support bi-annual release by reviewing release notes to determine overall business impact, conduct regression testing and make recommendations for future enhancements/functionality

Extend

• Act as a Workday Extend subject matter expert by leading and advising internal stakeholders through Workday Extend applications and the development lifecycle.
• Work with internal stakeholders to translate business objectives into projects with clearly defined scope, timing, deliverables, resources, and key measures of success while assessing level of effort, risk and impact of proposed design or optimization.
• Maintain project plans, including timelines and milestones and effectively set and communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders.
• Review and identify inefficiencies in business process flows; analyze processes, propose recommendations, document changes for change control purposes, and implement required process improvements.
• Provide application support and end-user guidance. Research and resolve issues.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the key responsibilities of the job
• Strong knowledge of Workday integration tools, including Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connectors, and Web Services.
• Experience with XML, XSLT, and other data transformation technologies.
• Familiarity with REST/SOAP APIs and web services.
• Hands-on experience developing Extend applications.
• Experience in JSON, XML, SQL, JavaScript, and other application development experience.
• Power BI experience a plus.
• Experience maintaining a high degree of discretion and sensitivity to confidential information
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong organization and time management skills required and the ability to react to quickly changing priorities