Principal Engineer, Workday Financials

Manhattan Associates • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

The Principal Engineer is responsible for overseeing the design, development, and implementation of Workday Financials solutions within the organization. This role involves leading moderate to complex projects, providing technical guidance, and mentoring junior engineers. The Principal Engineer collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure that solutions meet business requirements and align with the strategic goals of the organization. Key responsibilities include driving innovation, improving software quality, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. This position requires a deep understanding of Workday configuration and integration development engineering principles, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience interfacing and partnering with vendors
• 3+ years experience assisting in strategy/roadmap and planning
• Good proficiency with Microsoft Project or similar project management tool and project management skills
• Strong communication skills and ability to communicate at all levels of the organization (technical and business)
• Strong debugging skills
• 2+ years experience leading/mentoring more junior staff members
• Highly self-motivated, directed, ability to work independently and be results-driven
• 5+ years experience with SharePoint for document management and sharing
• 5+ years experience with IT ticketing software (Quality Center, ServiceNow, JIRA)
• 3+ years experience in agile/waterfall software delivery methodologies
• 3+ years experience using Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence agile toolsets or similar
• 5+ years experience working with small, geographically distributed teams
• 5+ years experience working both independently and in a team oriented, collaborative environment
• 7+ years working with Corporate Accounting processes
• 7+ years Accounting Application development and support experience including configuration/customization of applications and integrations across applications/modules in Workday
• 7+ years experience with Workday functional areas like Financials, Procurement, and Revenue Management
• 7+ years experience with Workday Integration types including EIB, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect and Workday Studio
• 7+ years experience creating Workday custom reports and calculated fields
• 7+ years experience integrating Workday with third-party service vendors

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to a small group of engineers
• Good understanding of most dependencies, interfaces and services required by assigned components and other related areas of the system
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment, including estimating and planning own and others work
• Determines optimal and efficient designs for application
• Develops detailed design tech specifications for application
• Leads development application from detailed design specifications
• Configure/develops and unit tests assigned areas following ETS development processes
• Performs code reviews
• Debugs moderately to complex problems in the primary tool required for the role and resolves in a timely manner
• Implements changes to system assuring the changes do not introduce new issues
• Keeps abreast of improvements in software techniques and develop some improvements on own
• Facilitates technology and skills knowledge transfer within the team and beyond
• Ability to influence and negotiate agreement on scope and schedule with business partners
• Lead or perform ongoing production support and end user support in timely manner
• Perform quality assurance on all technical deliverables
• Participate in demand and planning management conversations with assigned business partners around their needs for ETS related services
• Assist in organizing, planning and managing projects and ensuring all related SDLC activities are executed with quality and within schedule
• Work to becomes the resident expert on assigned components
• Leads Interactions with business to develop enterprise solutions
• Ability to be flexible while delivering assignments with understanding that deliverables may change based on business needs

Benefits

• Diversity and inclusion initiatives
• Cultural celebrations
• Interest groups
• Volunteer opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree