Systems Engineer (Level 6 or 7)

Salesforce•Dallas, TX

About The Position

Salesforce is hiring a Systems Engineer for a techno-functional role focused on security architecture and administration across Workday HCM and Workday Financials, supporting IT Finance and Employee Success. The role bridges technical and functional delivery, including requirements elaboration, platform configuration, testing, compliance, sprint delivery, and post-production validation. The engineer is expected to work with minimal supervision and assess integration complexity and feasibility. The position includes designing and implementing Workday security models, evaluating configuration tradeoffs, leading UAT, maintaining integration-aware test coverage, coordinating across system boundaries, and owning SOX IT Application Control mechanics for assigned systems. The engineer will also participate in Agile planning, manage platform releases, support production triage, and begin contributing to AI or agent-building tasks using Agentforce or other platform AI capabilities.

Requirements

3–5 years of hands-on Workday configuration or implementation experience.
Ability to independently translate business use cases into technical requirements, configuration specifications, and acceptance criteria.
Experience leading UAT, including defect triage and coordination with business SMEs.
Working knowledge of platform security frameworks, business processes, and reporting or integration.
Experience owning SOX or similar compliance controls, including supporting audit walkthroughs.
Experience conducting peer reviews of configuration work.
Experience with Agile or Scrum, including backlog refinement and sprint delivery.
Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs and status clearly to Product Managers and stakeholders.
A related technical degree.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to configuring or testing AI or agentic features such as Agentforce, Einstein, or equivalent platform AI capabilities.
Experience managing scheduled Workday platform release cycles.
Familiarity with integration frameworks and coordination with integration engineers on cross-system dependencies.
Experience with version control, code collaboration, and continuous integration systems such as Git.
Exposure to Geo Expansion or M&A system onboarding activities.
Experience in SaaS/PaaS architectures and enterprise IT environments.
Workday Security Pro certification.

Responsibilities

Break down Product Manager-authored use cases and problem statements into technical requirements, user stories, edge cases, and validation rules.
Configure assigned platforms, assess design tradeoffs, and document configuration decisions.
Assess build-versus-buy feasibility, including technical complexity, integration impact, and effort, and provide recommendations to the Product Manager.
Lead UAT for assigned features by preparing test environments, guiding business SMEs, and coordinating defect triage and resolution.
Write and maintain integration-aware test cases and execute end-to-end regression testing across system boundaries.
Identify upstream and downstream integration impacts before build work begins and coordinate with integration engineers.
Author release notes describing changes, testing, known impacts, and dependencies.
Peer review configuration work completed by team members and managed service providers.
Design and implement Workday security models, conduct impact analysis, and recommend best practices.
Manage periodic platform release implementations for assigned systems.
Own SOX IT Application Control mechanics, complete quarterly control certifications, and independently support audit walkthroughs.
Participate in backlog refinement and Big Room Planning and ensure sprint items meet Definition of Ready requirements.
Contribute to AI and agent-building tasks by configuring and testing basic Agentforce flows or platform AI features.
Support production triage and root cause analysis, escalating and coordinating with Operations or engineering as needed.