Director Product development Engineering-Workday Financial

Position Summary:

• 16+ years of total experience in ERP, proven 10+ years of experience in Workday mostly in financial area. • Hands-on experience with Workday Financial Management functional areas. • Strong expertise in Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST). • Working experience with Prism Analytics from data ingestion to creation of dataset pipelines, data blending, transformation, configuring Prism data source security and publishing it. • Strong hands-on experience with discovery boards and reports based on Prism data sources. • Experience with Accounting Center setup, including accounting rules, mapping logic, posting configurations, and transformations. • Proficient with data flows, reconciling subledger data to GL postings, and investigate discrepancies. • Good knowledge of business processes such as Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Expenses, and Supplier Management. • Proficiency in XML, XSLT, XPATH, Java, JSON for integration development. • Possess good knowledge in Workday Orchestration. • Experience in cloud financial systems, ERP integrations, or large-scale Workday deployments. • Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills. • Strong communication skills to work with business and technical stakeholders. • Proven track record in partnering with the business to deliver mission critical transformation via Agile approach. • Workday Integration Core Certified or Workday Financials Certified. • Understanding of PeopleSoft or similar ERP platforms is preferred. • Strong understanding of data lake concepts and modern data architecture to support scalable and efficient integrations. Job Responsibilities: • People Management - Managing software engineers located across multiple locations, upskilling/reskilling, hiring / retention agenda and adoption of engineering culture. • Stakeholder Management - Managing key business stakeholders to deliver the required technological capabilities to support the digital transformation agenda. Driving prioritization of the product backlog. • Lead and support E2E Software Lifecycle Management for Workday Financials (Architecture, Design, Development, Testing & Production). • Collaborate with finance, compliance, IT, and implementation partners for alignment. • Guide integrations with banks, treasury systems, and financial service providers. • Guide and support peer reviews of solution designs and related code, ensuring adherence to best practice guidelines and compliance with security and privacy mandates. • Document system architecture, specifications, and integration frameworks. • Design and deploy Workday integrations, focusing on Financials & related areas. • Build and maintain integrations using Workday Studio, EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder), Core Connectors, and Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST APIs). • Possess hands-on knowledge of security models, reporting, and calculated fields in Workday. • Ensure integrations security, error handling, and compliance with organizational policies. • Partner with cross-functional IT and business teams to manage data migrations, third-party system integrations, and interface enhancements. • Identify opportunities for process automation and system optimization within integrations. Soft Skills: • Strong leadership and project management capabilities. • Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills. • Ability to balance technical innovation with business value delivery. • Communication: Ability to influence and help communicate the organization’s direction and ensure results are achieved. • Collaboration: Proven track record of building collaborative partnerships and ability to operate effectively in a global environment. • People Management: Inspiring, motivating and leading diverse and distributed teams. • Diverse environment: Can-do attitude and ability to work in a high paced environment Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Finance, or related field. (B.Tech./B.E./BCA/MCA)

Technical Skills:

• Strong expertise in Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST). • Strong experience with Workday Prism Analytics and Accounting center. • Hands-on experience with Workday Financial Management functional areas. • Good knowledge of business processes such as Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Expenses, Supplier Management, Project Accounting and General Ledger. • Proficiency in XML, XSLT, XPATH, Java, JSON for integration development. • Experience with integration of middlewar