Principal Application Development Engineer, Workday HCM

September 12, 2024
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Job Description

As an Application Engineer in Core HR Tech, you’ll work with teams across the world, to continuously improve the technologies that power Atlassian’s People engine! You bring expertise in Application development (particularly Workday platform), are comfortable with a dynamic environment, and extremely motivated to engineering practices and operational excellence. You are enthusiastic and interested in making positive contributions to the team. Your passions include working with technology, defining and refining ways of working, and providing world class support to employees.
Compensation
At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate’s skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:
Zone A: $205,800 – $274,400
Zone B: $185,200 – $246,900
Zone C: $170,800 – $227,700
This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

  • Design, build, test and deploy solutions primarily utilizing tools and capabilities from third party applications such as Workday integrations and configurations, middleware such as Workato, as well as custom engineered builds as needed to deliver project outcomes
  • Utilize their deep techno functional experience in HR Technology and engineering practices to lead Core HR technology projects and support team members to solve complex and ambiguous problems
  • Own the technical evolution of Core HR systems and capabilities within People tech
  • Drive incremental improvements to team technical processes and practices
  • Responsiblefor the operational quality of team’s deliverables
  • Mentor and support team members
  • Collaborate with product and business teams to create and plan project and product roadmaps
  • Play an active role in defining SaaS product roadmaps, vendor QBRs, and assessment discussions. Hold vendors accountable for their operational quality and service level commitments
  • Partner with peer engineering teams to solve common problems and sharing best practices to make a positive impact across the broader organization beyond our team.

  • 12 years of experience in Application engineering with 7+ years hands on experience building solutions in Workday
  • Deep expertise in building Workday Integrations utilizing REST/SOAP, Graph API, Workday Studio/ Workday Orchestration and middleware tools such as Workato
  • Expert level hands-on experience in Core HCM configurations, knowledge of general HR functional processes and Workday capabilities.
  • Experience building solutions in Workday Extend is preferred
  • Experience in one or more languages (e.g., JavaScript, Java, Python), with an inclination to learn additional tools and technologies.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or a related field
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with strong understanding of HR processes, technologies, integrations and data
  • Effective communication skills, with the ability to interact with both technical and non-technical stakeholders at different levels
  • Strong organizational and project management skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to learn latest technology trends and innovate