Workday Finance Engineer

Position Purpose

As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state, and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem‑solving skills, and dedication to building stronger minds and a healthier world. By being deeply invested in our work, showing compassion in our interactions, and embodying the spirit of a team player, each member contributes to a thriving community.

UW is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff; your experiences, perspectives, and unique identities will be honored at the University of Washington. Together, our community strives to create and maintain working and learning environments that are inclusive, equitable, and welcoming.

UW Information Technology (UWIT) is the central IT organization for the University of Washington, responsible for strategic planning, oversight, and direction of the UW’s IT infrastructure, resources, and services. UWIT provides critical technology support to all three campuses, UW Medicine, and research operations around the world, partnering with the UW community to enable innovation, learning, discovery, and service.

UWIT Workday Operations supports the University’s faculty, staff, and student workers by configuring and supporting UW’s Workday platform. Within UWIT Workday Operations the Workday Finance Application Management team supports Workday Finance modules such as Procurement, Grants, Banking/Settlement, and Core Finance. The hallmarks of UWIT Workday Operations are delivering services that are timely, accurate and highly attuned to the fast‑paced university environment.

The Software Engineer will support Tier 3 Application Management functions in Workday Finance, a cloud‑based finance software system. Responsibilities include coordinating with team members to analyze/troubleshoot complex system issues, supporting configuration and implementation changes, participating in testing/validation of functionality changes, documenting and communicating changes, and collaborating with reporting and integration teams. The incumbent will analyze business problems and processes to identify functional and non‑functional solutions supporting the needs of the University.

• Complete identification and implementation of complex Workday configuration changes.
• Troubleshoot advanced system issues.
• Complete advanced analysis of the Workday release schedule and coordinate with stakeholders to understand implications of the release of new features and associated update priorities.
• Maintain productive relationships with designated stakeholders to understand policies, procedures, and established standards.
• Evaluate processes, identify improvement opportunities, and implement required updates/enhancements.
• Adhere to protocols and standards for facilitating configurations and software changes in an accurate, efficient, and compliant manner.
• Leverage extensive insight across the spectrum of Workday business process and technical inter‑dependencies, exercising cognizance of foundational design concepts, data conventions and workflow dependencies.
• Contribute to related application support activities as required.
• Manage high‑volume workloads by multi‑tasking, coordinating with peers and communicating with customers as required.
• Balance complex and competing priorities in a deadline‑driven environment.

The Workday Finance Application Management team delivers a high level of service to customers by collaborating with business partners and other technical teams to address needs in an efficient, accurate and compliant manner.

This position is responsible for maintaining and updating the configuration of the Financial Accounting, Business Assets, Capital Projects, and Planning process areas within Workday. The design, configuration and ongoing maintenance of this functionality will directly impact the University’s ability to ensure the integrity of Finance systems.

Workday Configuration (60%)

• Leverage knowledge across the spectrum of Workday business process and technical…