Principal Workday Analyst

Summary

The Principal Workday Administrator designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and supports solutions. Ensures quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, performance, compatibility, and integrations of solutions throughout. Advances the teams technical foundation to deliver modern, simple, and secure solutions, and raises the skills within the squad.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for design, development, testing, maintenance, monitoring, and support of a platform or application. Maintains thoughtful application design that promotes reuse, portability, and ease of code maintenance. Builds subject matter expertise in the business area that the platform or application supports. Leads with high autonomy the execution and utilization of reference implementations, best practices, frameworks and standards, and architectural and design decisions within a squad. Notifies technical stakeholders of technical or functional changes.
• Contributes to the teams backlog to capture work that promotes the teams mission and advances the teams technical foundation. Partners with teammates to refine the product backlog. Partners with Workday Admins to lead the team in breaking down larger bodies of work (epics) into smaller, well-understood items (stories) that can be accomplished in a single iteration. Ensure stories have clearly understood value and defined acceptance criteria. Communicate with key partners to understand scope of planned work. Inform prioritization, identify dependencies, and influence the product roadmap. Generates stories for backlog to address performance, non-functional requirements, tech debt, modernization, and simplification.
• Participate in team agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, backlog refinement, planning, review/demo, and retrospectives. Helps drive collaboration within the team through practices such as pair programming. Actively seeks ways to drive continuous improvement within team. Leads team through resolution of blockers, and implementation of new practices identified as part of teams continuous improvement goals.
• Understands the teams application architecture and how it fits into the teams broader area as well as to the enterprise via key dependencies.
• Mentor’s individuals in the squad on technical delivery. Works to build technical skills in teammates through direction, example, and by creating opportunities for others to learn. Participates in communities of practice on technical topics and encourages team members to join where technical interests or development opportunities align.
• Partners with established vendors on implementations, modernization, capability improvements, and framework updates. Influences partners roadmaps. Performs technical evaluations and makes recommendations about new incoming solutions.
• Establishes and manages quality standards, decisions, and implementations. Leverages automation where possible to create efficiency and reliability in delivery of Workday. Ensures application, performance, uptime, and scale. Defines and maintains high standards of code quality. Participate in peer reviews to ensure quality, consistency, and knowledge transfer is part of regular delivery. Troubleshoots and fixes bugs and security risks. Identifies bottlenecks, patterns, and potential solutions related to incoming bugs and defects to improve software efficiency. Partners with peers on software development lifecycle improvements. Creates and maintains support playbooks.
• Leverages best practices, technologies, and instrumentation to lead the team in regular monitoring and observation of health, availability, and performance of software in production to provide appropriate application support and inform roadmap/backlog improvements. Partners with the squad and peers across squads to diagnose performance issues found in monitoring. Identifies and implements new monitoring and proactive alerting mechanisms to inform the squad of issues before problems reach consumers and stakeholders.
• Performs other duties as assigned.