Senior Software Development Engineer, Payroll Development

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About the Team

About the Role

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Payroll Development team, you are a key component of the Global Payroll mission: the link between the engineers building new payroll capability and the professional services and solutions teams (both Workday and Partners) implementing it for customers in each country. Your work keeps those two sides aligned and engaged, so implementations land successfully and at high quality.

You'll also help shape the AI toolsets development and implementation teams rely on, feeding your field experience back in to make those tools faster and more accurate over time.

In this role, you will:

• Align with implementation teams on customer projects to understand their technical environment, data, and country-specific requirements
• Collaborate on design, build, and deployment of production-grade software and integrations inside live customer and partner environments to support Partners and/or our CX team members for new payroll deployments in new regions, not demos or proofs of concept
• Collaborate on technical delivery end-to-end: discovery, scoping, architecture, implementation, testing, and rollout
• Guide integration of payroll systems with customer data sources, APIs, and identity/access systems
• Help troubleshoot and resolve implementation and production issues in real time, often in undefined problem spaces
• Turn field learnings and recurring implementation needs into feedback that improves the core product and the AI toolset
• Act as a trusted technical partner for implementation teams' engineering and business stakeholders
• Work closely with product, engineering, and implementation partners across the region
• Help train and enable the deployment toolset on new capabilities, workflows, and lessons learned from the field
• Train Customer Experience team members in partnership with the Product Optimization and Acceleration (PAO) team on payroll functionality, deployment processes, and troubleshooting
• Train Solution Consultants in partnership with the Product Optimization and Acceleration (PAO) team on payroll so they can scope, demo, and position deployment capabilities
• Support the payroll country development team directly on product and engineering work between implementation engagements

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building, shipping, and supporting production-grade code
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience integrating software with external systems, APIs, and enterprise data sources
• 3-5+ Years experience on Workday Payroll

Other Qualifications

• Comfortable writing production code in one or more languages (for example, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, or Java), with a track record of taking a project from problem to shipped solution
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and modern deployment practices such as CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure as code
• Strong communication skills, comfortable partnering directly with customer stakeholders, including people without a technical background
• Able to work independently in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
• Experience creating training content or enabling other teams, such as Customer Experience or Solution Consulting, on technical or payroll concepts
• Willing to travel or work on-site with customers as needed
• Workday certifications required: Payroll

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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