Workday Integration Consultant

Why we're hiring:

WPP is embarking on a major 3-year transformation to simplify, modernise, and unify its technology platforms across the group. This change is critical to:

• Enable cost-effective transformation and operational efficiency
• Accelerate adoption of AI, data, and digital platforms
• Ensure consistent delivery of value and benefits across all agencies and markets
• Minimise disruption and maximise engagement during large-scale change

Workday is a cornerstone of this transformation, providing a single, modern system of record for people data and for driving efficiency through our operations and finance functions. By standardising core processes, improving data quality and enabling better insights, Workday supports consistent ways of working, stronger governance and futureready capabilities, while creating the foundation for scalable change, automation and AIenabled decision making across WPP.

What you'll be doing:

• Monitoring Workday integrations, keeping the integration lead updated with potential high impact issues.
• Ensuring incidents are clearly and regularly updated to allow successful handover to the next timezone taking over in progress incidents.
• Troubleshooting and resolving the most complex integration support issues in a timely manner.
• Maintaining integration support issue list with new issues found.
• Clearly document results/solutions as needed and updated existing documentation when necessary.
• Responsible for development and enhancement of integrations as assigned on BAU, potential for involvement in integration aspects of new projects from inception.
• Continually review integrations to make sure that they meet the highest standards possible.
• Accountable for maintaining up to date integrations documentation and diagrams.
• Engage positively with other IT teams and lead resolving issues across interconnected platforms.
• Working with business partners to gather requirements for enhancements to existing integrations and delivery of new integrations as requested.
• Maintain expertise on new integrations functionality/features/capabilities in Workday, wider industry, and technology trends.

What you'll need:

• Strong Workday integrations development and support experience with requirements gathering, analysis and solution design experience ideal.
• Ability to understand business needs & requirements and turn into clear deliverables.
• Experience of creating/supporting Workday integrations of multiple types: Studio, Core connectors, RaaS, EIB, Payroll integrations PECI/ PICOF, BIRT.
• Good working knowledge of web service technologies (REST, SOAP, JSON, HTTP, SSL, PGP, SAML, etc).
• Proficiency with XML, XPath and XSLT.
• Understanding of HCM/Financials functionality and Workday integration best practices.
• Any knowledge of Informatica would be an advantage.
• Excellent technical understanding of SaaS platforms including integrations, security standards and data.
• Ability to work with multiple external teams.
• Strong ability to work with other platform/product teams to achieve goals.
• Delivery and customer focused, with high energy and drive.

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people - We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity - We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work - Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?

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