Workday Integration lead , GFT

• Assesses and analyses integration requirements, current state environment and technology platforms to define and propose solution that meets functional integration needs across the Workday eco-system, including a future HCM solution and multiple 3rd party internal/external systems.

• As an Integration Developer focus on building integration solutions ensuring successful deployment using various integration product technologies/tools and services.

• As an integration developer build strong, sustainable relationships with the business and functional team, by joining them in workshops to elicit their needs and understand their wants which meets the business requirements.

• Identifies technical issues and risks and defines mitigation approaches working closely with delivery and operations teams.

• Works with impacted/dependent groups to coordinate integration across systems.

• Collaborates with all team members to ensure specialty skills and capabilities are effectively used to implement solutions and that integration knowledge is shared across the team.

• Participate in detailed design sessions for identifying, tracking and resolving issues related to integration design/build.

• Ability to understand integration interdependency and mitigate issues arising due to those dependencies.

• Stay up to date with emerging trends and new functionalities in areas related to the Workday integration and other domains.

Planning, Implementation & Support

• Get actively involved in Global Design Workshops to proactively raise concerns or provide input whenever needed.

• As an Integration Developer help manage the integration deliverables associated with the HCM project & Workday Implementation.

• Work with the internal IT teams to gather enterprise level requirements for integrations. (e.g., integration delivery and retrieval mechanism as per the enterprise standards, Public & Private Key Management, etc.,)

• Work closely with the QA team to help them understand the integration design, architecture and functionalities while managing the testing use cases.

• You’ll understand where blockers form and you’ll track issues and risks, working with the PMO and other team members to mitigate them

• Act as a Workday champion in delivering change and rolling out new features to the local teams.

• Participate and provide feedback on project implementation plans and support requirements.

• Collaborate with the payroll team for issue resolution, testing, deployment and ongoing payroll support.

• Vendor management skills, know how to involve appropriate party.

• Demonstrate ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks at a time.

• Demonstrate ability to take initiative and ownership with focus on providing solution which works best for all the stakeholders.

• Quick Decision-making process to know, when to push back, when to escalate and make sensible decisions taking a balanced view of requirement.

• Ability to drive the CR process specific to integration.

• Sound understanding of functional domain to analyze impact of functional CR on integrations.

• Provides forward-thinking technical leadership for integration design and development with understanding of current and future TOM.

• Identify and solve issues leveraging platforms such as Workday Community

Relationships & Communication

• Works closely with HRCT Architects and Lead Architect to continuously ensure alignment with business and technology strategy with an integration focus.

• Effectively communicates and builds rapport with team members, stakeholders and interfacing groups using a variety of techniques and collaboration from initiation to close.

• Facilitates small to large group meetings for technical design/architecture, decision making, problem-solving and task implementation.

• Prepares and delivers presentations to business and technology partners and senior management, selecting the appropriate approach based on the audience. 

• Resolves technical conflicts/issues and escalates to others as appropriate.

Development & Coaching

• Act as team leader

• Facilitate knowledge transfer sessions and provides day to day direction, expertise, feedback, coaching and development to build the capability of more junior staff.

• Continually enhances skills and builds knowledge in all aspects of the organization, the business and information systems.

• Demonstrate expertise in Workday Integration and IT infrastructure.

• Willing to widen expertise and obtain Workday certifications in identified domains.

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