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Job Description:

Position Overview:

Fairfield University is looking for aWorkday Integration Developerto build and maintain an enterprise class automation platform for the University. This platform will power the key processes in Human Resources, Finance, and Student integrations.

The Workday Integration Developer is a member of the Enterprise Systems team at Fairfield University. In this role, you will support the Director of Enterprise Systems and the cross-functional leads by serving as a technical resource for the Workday HCM, Finance, Payroll and Student applications. You will design, develop and maintain inbound and outbound Enterprise Systems integrations. In addition, with your technical expertise, you will collaborate with functional leads and analysts to develop advanced reports, complementing their efforts and enhancing our overall reporting capabilities.

The ideal candidate will have prior Workday technical experience, and prior software programming experience.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Integrations Development

  • Lead the research, design, development, testing, and delivery of new Workday and third-party systems integrations

  • Create technical design specs, performunit & system integration testing, deploy and support of all Workday and third-party system integrations

  • Understand the business problems and build efficient solutions using the Workday platform, middleware tools and the related capabilities of source and target systems

  • Configure and develop technical integrations using Workday Studio, Workday RaaS Integrations, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Complex Calculated Fields, Web Services, Workday Custom Reports, Web Services, XSLT, and xPath

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to assess document requirements, review design, and define functional specifications

  • Manage Workday Integration analysis, system configurations, and deployment to production

  • Lead integration projects with third-party vendors from discovery, design, development, testing and implementation

  • Actively participate in learning University business processes and how they translate to manual, semi-automated and automated processes

  • Understand the University enterprise systems portfolio of third-party applications and how they interact with Workday

• Integrations Administration

  • Be proactive in understanding inbound and outbound data integrations, monitoring system health, scheduled jobs, alerts and notifications

  • Participate in Workday semi-yearly release reviews and testing by identifying impact/enhancement opportunities associated with new release features/functionality. Coordinate integration testing pre-requisites for releases.

  • Monitor, track progress, and resolve enterprise system support tickets and collaborate and support functional leads with escalated issues

  • Create detailed integration specifications, field mappings, and designs to support the entire integration deployment life-cycle

  • Research integration failures, perform root cause analyses, and report back to management and business leaders

  • Collaborate with functional leads, analysts, and system administrators on system operations, security, business processes and how it relates to integrations

  • Assist functional leads in configuring complex business processes, including building calculated fields and advanced routing rules

  • Assume additional responsibilities as required

• Technical Leadership and Project Management:

  • Maintain current knowledge of Workday products, administration best practices, and agile methodology best practices

  • Stay current with Workday releases, updates, new features, evaluating their potential impact on the University's processes.

  • Research new releases and upgrades and collaborate with the Workday team to provide recommendations regarding their use by the organization.

  • Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning

  • Serve as the subject matter expert on large collections of Workday integrations

  • Work with business stakeholders to determine problem areas and overall impact of projects

  • Develop plans to move forward with the overall end-to-end enterprise systems strategy

  • Partner with business stakeholders and ITS team members to align on objectives and programs

  • Help manage the timelines and deliverables within large, multi-month projects

  • Understand data flows and system usage between internal systems and Workday, driving alignment with other system owners

  • Be an active participant in enterprise user group meetings and facilitate discussions when needed

• Reporting & Audits:

  • Serve as a Workday reporting authority, staying current with Workday roadmap to continuously optimize reporting capabilities, leveraging a deep understanding of Workday's current functionalities, design concepts, and integration points

  • Translate business requirements into impactful Workday reporting solutions, including the development of discovery boards, reports, dashboards, and insightful analytics

  • Produce and review audit reports to assess integration performance and error handling

  • Maintain and enhance reporting frameworks to support operational excellence

Qualifications:

• 2+ years'Workday Finance, HCMor Student experience, report writing and integrations

• Experience with highly complex integrations preferably between Finance, Payroll, Admissions, Registration, Advancement and Academic Administration using Workday tools

• Good knowledge of Workday HCM, Finance and/or Student module concepts & capabilities

• Strong working knowledge ofWorkday StudioDevelopment

• Strong working knowledge ofWorkday EIB, RaaS, and Web Services

• Strong working knowledge ofSOAP, REST, XML and XSLT, Java

• Workday integrations experience required with a good understanding of integration design and testing concepts and integration frameworks (e.g., middleware, transformation logic)

• Knowledge of all phases of system development lifecycle, including production support.

• Strong analytical skills, problem solving and troubleshooting abilities

• Excellent written and verbal communication with a focus on documentation, and interpersonal skills

• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment

• Highly organized with the ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively while demonstrating a sense of urgency

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Higher Education is a plus

• Current or Past Workday Studio Integration Certification will be a plus

• Experience with Workday Studio, Orchestrate, Prism

• Strong working knowledge ofBIRT

• Experience with a programming language: Java, Python

• Experience with query languages: SQL, WQL

• Knowledge of Kainos automated testing tools.

Education:

• BA degree in technology field or commensurate professional experience

Working Conditions:

• On-campus work preferred; remote and hybrid work arrangements will be considered upon request

• Some occasional travel to Workday training and annual Workday Rising Conference

• May require occasional evening and/or weekend work

This position is not eligible for immigration assistance.

Category:

Performs such other duties, responsibilities, and activities as required by supervisor and as departmental/University needs indicate.

*Disclaimer

The above information indicates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain and should not be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, activities, and/or qualifications required or expected of employees assigned to this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change and new ones may be assigned at any time, with or without notice.

All offers of employment are contingent upon a satisfactory background check.

Fairfield University provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.