Senior Software Engineer – Workday Integrations

HCM Enterprise Application Services

86397BR

University Job Title

Senior Software Engineer

Bargaining Unit

None - Not included in the union (Yale Union Group)

Compensation Grade

Administration & Operations

Compensation Grade Profile

Manager; Program Leader (P6)

Wage Ranges

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Searchable Job Family

Human Resources

Total # of hours to be worked:

37.5

Work Week

Standard (M-F equal number of hours per day)

Work Location

Central Campus

Worksite Address

221 Whitney Ave
New Haven, CT 06511

Position Focus:

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for the design and building of simple to complex applications and integrations that integrate with Yale’s systems and outside vendors. This position designs, develops and modifies software applications. In addition, this position performs coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting throughout the application development process. The Senior Software Engineer relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.  May lead and direct the work of others as well as may report directly to a project lead or manager. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

Essential Duties

1.  Provides an overall leadership role. Serves as a technical advisor to programmers and provide technical guidance to leadership to assist with the formulating of long range development plans.   2.  Leads efforts to evaluate University business and administrative processes and needs; identifies, analyzes and defines systems requirements for large administrative areas.  Designs and implements large and highly complex administrative systems. 3.  Leads the planning, development and implementation of business solutions.  Ensures stakeholder and intended user's needs, scheduled timeline, and budgetary targets are met or exceeded.  4.  Defines and executes quality assurance and unit testing procedures to ensure high quality solutions.  Monitors effectiveness and efficiency of applications and systems and conduct initiatives to improve system availability, cost, performance and manageability across the lifecycle. Performs highly complex and unusual problem solving.    5.  Leads, plans, and manages major projects; including architectural design, technology selection, and methodologies to apply.  Advises and influences both internal and external consulting teams. 6.  Develops and oversees production support functions and integrates system requirements among several departments.  Formulates systems design schedule and writes program modules. 7.  Leads and ensures ongoing maintenance and support for applications and systems. Leads technical evaluations. Interface with vendors to resolve major software issues. Responsible for final decisions on purchases of hardware and software products. 8.  Trains, mentors, and develops technical staff.  Leads and oversees support for training of end users.   9.  Recommends and creates new policy.  Creates and utilizes best practices. 10. Takes a leadership role in keeping current with existing and emerging technologies and methodologies. Provides leadership in the ongoing establishment and use of programming standards and methodologies, with intent to improve overall efficiency of group and client satisfaction. 11. May perform other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

Bachelor's Degree in a related field and six years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Required Skill/Ability 1:

Familiar with Workday Studio Integrations, Workday Core Connector integrations, Workday EIB, API integrations, XML language, XSLT style sheets, and Workday Reports including BIRT reports. Lead the design, build, and support testing of Workday integration code base.

Required Skill/Ability 2:

Exposure and basic understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, to include machine learning, deep learning, multi-agent systems, expert systems, and mixed-initiative human-machine learning. 

Required Skill/Ability 3:

Proficient in implementing custom solutions and integrating with Third Party applications. Ability to lead the design of integrations from point-to-point systems by providing effective data quality and dependable exchanges of digital information.  Ensures timelines and quality of integrations are met.

Required Skill/Ability 4:

Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming techniques and implementation strategies.

Required Skill/Ability 5:

Ability to learn and take on other technical skills outside of Workday and Salesforce as needed to support our clients.  This may include (and not limited to) ETL platforms such as Talend, webMethods, or web service development.

Preferred Education, Experience and Skills:

Demonstrated ability with Salesforce/Force.com, Lightning; (not required but desirable). Some front-end experience with HTML/DHTML, CSS, XML, AJAX and JavaScript. Exposure to some reporting and data visualization business intelligence tool such as Microsoft Power BI.

Weekend Hours Required?

Occasional

Evening Hours Required?

Occasional

Background Check Requirements

All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks based on the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of the background check. For additional information on the background check requirements and process visit "Learn about background checks" under the Applicant Support Resources section of Careers on the It's Your Yale website.

COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement

The University maintains policies pertaining to COVID-19. All faculty, staff, students, and trainees are required to comply with these policies, which may be found here:
https://covid19.yale.edu/health-guidelines

Posting Disclaimer

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the essential functions that will be required of the position and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties and responsibilities of the particular position. Employees will be assigned specific job-related duties through their hiring departments.

EEO Statement:

University policy is committed to affirmative action under law in employment of women, minority group members, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans. Additionally, in accordance with Yale’s Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment, and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual’s sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran.

Inquiries concerning Yale’s Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment may be referred to the Office of Institutional Equity and Accessibility (OIEA).

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