Get to Know the Opportunity:
The Application Support Consultant supports the Application Maintenance IT Manager and Director and is accountable for the tactical Application Maintenance Supplier technical and process governance for a set IT area and portfolio.
Contributions You'll Make:
- Perform design, development, testing and deployment of Workday integrations (internal and Third party) to meet business requirements using EIB, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, Document Transformation and Workday Studio.
- Lead and mentor a team of Workday developers, emphasizing high-performance culture.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze integration requirements.
- Enhance Workday solutions ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Workday configurations and customizations.
- Work independently or with Integration Lead/Tech Lead and/or Project Manager to participate in integrations delivery.
- Maintain continuously and support current integrations by resolving defects (if any), enhance and apply required updates, as necessary.
- Investigate and develop skills in new technologies.
- Stay up to date with Workday releases and new functionalities and assess their impact on our systems.
- Maintain clear and organized documentation of software code, specifications, and user manuals.
- Oversee the development lifecycle, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and with high-quality standards.
- Engage with clients and stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations, ensuring the delivery of solutions that exceed expectations.
- Develop and implement project plans, tracking progress and mitigating risks.
Minimum Knowledge & Experience
- Bachelor s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering or a directly related field, Master s Degree preferred.
- Eight + years of software engineering and development or Operations, including five years in technical leadership
- Hand on experience in Workday Technical or Techno-functional areas, XML, XSLT, and Workday Studio.
- Proficient in Reports, Calculated Fields, Performance tuning and Security.
- Experience with Object transporter migration
- Good experience in SOAP/REST APIs/ Web Services.
- Good experience in creating custom reports & complex calculated fields
- Writing well designed, testable, efficient code.
- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review.
- Experience in Application Management would be an added advantage.
- Knowledge on production support and production incident trouble shooting skills.
- Deployment and configuration management skill also will add advantage.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
Required Skills:
Workday, Workday Studio, Workday Connectors, Report Writer, BIRT, Linux, Power shell Scripts, XML, XLST, and, JavaScript.