Sr. Application Engineer - Workday

Company: truData Solutions
Location: Simi Valley
Posted on: June 22, 2022

Job Description:

Title: Sr. Applications Engineer, Workday Start Date: ASAPRate: $ NegotiableDuration: 6 months Location: Simi Valley, CA (Remote/Hybrid)Description:The Senior Applications Engineer's role is to support various Enterprise and Business Applications. This position collaborates with BPO (Business Process Owners) and BRM (Business Relationship Management) to help ensure AV's Enterprise & Business applications are configured and operated efficiently and effectively. Application Engineer focuses on Release Management, coordinates, and works with Business functions to prioritize top tickets and analyzes data in support of business cases, proposed projects, and systems requirements. The Senior Applications Engineer is also responsible for generating and compiling technical requirements based on the Business requirements, system configurations changes, testing, and status reports complete with probable causes and possible solutions to systems issues. This individual will apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help maximize the benefit of AV's Enterprise System Applications.Position Responsibilities:

• This role serves as the subject matter expert/Support specialist for various functional areas within Workday which include Recruiting, Core HR, Benefits, Advanced Compensation, Talent, Learning, and PRISM/Enterprise Reporting.
• Manages ticket queue and SLA's and ensures production and production users are up and running, using metrics and KPI's to continuously improve service
• Reviews Best Practices and ensures production jobs, schedules and business processes are operating in optimal capacity
• Collaborates with Technical Team (Delivery, Infrastructure) and functional teams (Business Relationship Management and Business Process Owners) to help ensure major product features, releases, and patches are tested, validated, and deployed to production
• Enables best practices for SOD, SOX, GRC controls for various Enterprise and Business Applications for User provisioning, de-provisioning, Roles and access management; coordinates, periodic access review with internal audit and other stake holders and enables necessary protocols for secure access control collaborating with DevOps teams
• Responsible for Interface design and support for ERP Applications; leverages tools such as Mulesoft to optimize development and support
• Collaborates with Technical team to deploy changes across Dev, QA and Prod for enterprise applications
• Acts as primary point of contact with SaaS vendors coordinating AV's cloud upgrades and releases, and works with Business and BAs to coordinate UAT testing
• Maintains and manages functional, technical and regression test catalog for reusability across monthly releases & Projects / Programs
• Other duties as assignedBasic Qualifications (Required Skills & Experience):
  • Bachelor's degree in the field of Computer Science, Finance and/or related field is required or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
  • Minimum 12-15 years of experience with Oracle EBS R12 and/or Oracle Cloud with expertise in functional analysis, Oracle Procure to Pay Apps, Manufacturing, Logistics, Warehouse and Financial Applications
  • Strong knowledge of Procure to Pay processes required
  • Extensive experience working on projects related to financial systems
  • Experience working with the Oracle support opening SRs with Oracle, follow-up and issue resolution
  • Strong knowledge of interfaces, workflow, AME, and underlying Oracle tables required
  • Strong communication skills: oral presentations, writing, negotiation, active listening, influencing positive team dynamics
  • Ability to work in a multi-project environment and support multiple internal customer/departmentsOther Qualifications & Desired Competencies:
    • Advanced degree is preferred
    • Demonstrates keen attention to detail as well as strong analytical, time management and creative problem-solving skills
    • Uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles to achieve goals in creative and effective ways
    • Exhibits effective interpersonal, listening and communication skills (written and verbal)
    • Communicates ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
    • Successfully works within a multi-project environment and supports multiple internal customers
    • Is successful in working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment and puts the success of the team above one's own interests
    • Able to excel in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, where small teams share a broad variety of duties
    • Displays strong initiative and drive to accomplish goals and meet company objectives
    • Takes ownership and responsibility for current and past work products
    • Is committed to learning from mistakes and driven to improve and enhance performance of oneself, others, and the company
    • Focuses on teamwork and puts the success of the team above one's own interestsPhysical Demands
      • Ability to work in an office environment (Constant)
      • Required to sit and stand for long periods; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard (Frequent)Special Requirements
        • U.S. Citizenship required
        • Occasionally may be required to travel within the Continental U.S.

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