Workday Principal Business Systems Analyst

On behalf of our client, Dice Talent Solutions is seeking a Workday Principal Business Systems Analyst to provide production support and execute new integrations as business needs arise.

This full‑time (direct hire) position is based out of Carlsbad, CA and works a HYBRID schedule, with Thursdays and Fridays as telework days. Candidates must be able to work on our client’s W2 (annual salary + benefits package). No visa sponsorship or transfers are available. No 3rd party Corp to Corp inquiries will be considered.

The successful candidate will have experience across all Workday modules, strong skills in troubleshooting and determining root cause analysis, and experience building new integrations. The environment includes Workday Studio Integrations, EIBs, Core Connectors, Payroll connectors, and benefit integrations. A strong understanding of integration architecture and the ability to research vendor API documentation in order to build an integration is required.

In this role you will liaise with IT, Finance, and Human Resources to design and cultivate Workday dashboards, scorecards and reports. You will foster organizational readiness to include optimizing Workday ERP efficiency, enabling continuous process improvement, driving cost reduction, and facilitating organizational growth.

• Engage with the business to provide technical guidance and oversight in the translation of complex business needs into requirements that can be used to design and develop Workday solutions.
• Captures functional business requirements by gathering, analyzing, and documenting requirements. Ensures system design fits the needs of the user.
• Designs, develops, configures, tests, maintains, and supports Workday system solutions. Ensures the required outcomes are built, tested, and delivered.
• Manages integration projects/initiatives to ensure delivery of quality solutions on time and within budget.
• Design and cultivate Workday dashboards, scorecards, and reports to evaluate workforce efficiency.
• Assist in the development and execution of capacity plans, timelines, and test scenarios for recurring upgrade cycles and future implementation phases. Communicate changes and enhancements via recurring upgrade cycles and future implementation phases to impacted users.
• Coordinate and execute systematic testing and deliver end user training.
• Identify business process improvement and standardization, pursue opportunities for cost reduction.
• Analyze incidents/requests; ensure issues and/or defects are identified, documented, and timely resolved.
• Edify and maintain constructive stakeholder relationships (Executive, HR, IT, etc.), solicit feedback to ensure ongoing service satisfaction.
• Using a strong understanding of business processes, services, and technology, identify opportunities for improvement, simplification, standardization, and automation.
• Assist in developing and maintaining a roadmap for Workday technology solutions.
• Safeguard system access and security and support system audits.
• Use client’s internal tools and become familiar with their unique development environment to provide superior custom‑applications.
• Drive stability and scalability within the operational support team.
• Immerse yourself in customary HR, IT, and Finance communications, meetings, and activities to engender collegial support.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• 6+ years of experience working in Workday required.
• Workday Integration Certification preferred.
• Comprehension and proficiency of Software as a Service (SaaS) architecture, design, configuration, and testing in various areas of Workday:
• Organizational Structure
• Business Process Configuration
• Domain and Business Process Security Policies
• Simple, Advanced, Matrix, and Composite Reporting
• Calculated Fields
• Workday Studio
• Workday Web Service Framework
• Workday Core Connector and Document Transformation
• Workday Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)
• Workday Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT)
• XML, XPATH, XSLT
• Excellent experience defining business requirements, establishing current vs. future process mapping,…