About Us and the Role:

Founded in 1987, GFT today has more than 10,000 experts around the world and is present in more than 15 markets to ensure customer proximity. With new operations from Asia to America, we continue on the path of growth on a global scale. Since 10 years ago from Costa Rica we managed North-American clients from Financial, Industry and Insurance fields.

We are looking for a passionate Workday Senior / Lead Application Developer Specialist, HRIT to design, develop and deploy software solutions. Responsibilities include gathering user requirements, defining system functionality, and writing code within the Workday HCM (HR) Platform.

A Day in this Role:

• Serves as a technical specialist for Workday HCM platform. 
• Collaborate with the development of new features, enhancements and fix existing system bugs.
• Interact constant and dynamically with BA’s, QA’s and other peer to clarify business requirements.
• Development of high-quality solutions in the Workday platform
• Provide support to current existing Workday HCM applications .
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing Workday solutions
• Write well-designed,  scalable, and testable code.
• Design software solutions that efficiently fit in a existent application ecosystem.
• Have ability to drive projects from inception to completion on the technical side.
• Advise on software development best practices
• Lead technical design and code reviews to drive projects towards the best results
• 3-5 years of experience in Workday
• BSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
• Demonstrable work experience in Workday Platform development
• Deep knowledge on HCM module , integrations and automations
• Proficient in Workday configurations and customizations as well as :
  • Calculated fields
  • Custom Reports
  • EIB’s
  • Document Transformation
  • Workday Studio
  • Web Services
  • PICOF’s
  • Ability to work closely with 3rd party vendors to define system requirements and solve issues with existing integrations.
  • Create and maintain Cloud Connect Integrations.

 

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex methodologies and results to the technical team.
• Should be able to eventually lead, own, and drive projects from start to end, including leading other resources of similar or less experience
• Be familiar with the software development life cycle (SDLC) from preliminary system analysis to tests and deployment.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies
• Ability to understand and troubleshoot existing code and maintain existing applications.
• Ability to identity performance bottlenecks.
• Knowledge in the Workday architecture to design solutions and integrations with legacy systems
• Ability to assess the impact of new requirements on Workday, all applications, systems and processes;
• Knowledge with data modeling and modeling of business flows
• Knowledge of Workday best practices, features and limitations.

Desired or Nice to Have or  Expertise:

• Business knowledge in financial areas such as Capital Markets, Private Equity and Asset Management
• Knowledge on Financial , Analytics and/or Planning Workday modules.
• Experience working with version control tools such as GIT and CI/CD tools like Team City/Jenkins/Octopus