Associate Workday Engineer

Calix India; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Calix India in Bengaluru is seeking an Associate Workday Engineer to provide hands-on Workday configuration, maintenance, and functional support across HRIS domains. You will help implement and optimize Workday modules, ensuring data integrity and effective end‑user training.

The role covers HCM, Benefits, Recruiting, and Advanced Compensation, with a focus on process improvements, reporting, and change management in a fast-paced team. Flexible hybrid work supports collaboration with local teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 2–4 years of recent Workday product suite experience.
• Functional Workday experience with HCM, Recruiting, Benefits, Talent, and Compensation.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work with limited supervision.
• Ability to manage multiple high-priority tasks and meet deadlines.
• Business-minded with deep knowledge of HR processes.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Configure Workday business processes and support configuration, integrations, and troubleshooting while maintaining data integrity and confidentiality.
• Review procedures/workflows to ensure full feature utilization and identify improvements.
• Audit Workday outputs for accuracy and support cross-departmental processes.
• Support the configuration and generation of reports for HR or management and assist with ad‑hoc reporting while ensuring data integrity.
• Provide pre‑ and post‑launch end‑user support, change management, testing, and training.
• Document technology specifications and maintain change management documentation for compliance practices.
• Respond to second‑level regional employee inquiries regarding Workday system.
• Assist in conducting local Workday user training across all organizations for HCM, Benefits, Recruiting, Advanced Compensation.
• Support review and enhancements for bi‑annual Workday feature releases and implementation.

Skills

Workday

HRIS

Data integrity

Communication

Training

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/CS/IT

Job description

This position is based in Bangalore, India.

The Associate Workday Engineer is a hands‑on role that provides technical and functional support of Workday architecture, configuration, and implementation, as well as daily Workday maintenance. This position is ideal for someone eager to build their career in HRIS and develop their problem‑solving skills in a supportive team environment. Successful candidates are adaptable, technically inclined, and thrive in a fast‑paced setting.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Configure Workday business processes and support configuration, integrations, and troubleshooting while maintaining strict standards for data integrity and confidentiality.


• Review business procedures/workflows to ensure system features are fully utilized and identify improvements.


• Audit Workday system outputs for accuracy and support cross‑departmental processes through effective communication.


• Support the configuration and generation of reports for HR or management personnel and assist with ad‑hoc reporting while ensuring data integrity.


• Provide pre‑ and post‑launch end‑user support, change management, issue resolution, testing, and training.


• Document technology specifications and maintain accurate change management documentation for compliance practices.


• Respond to and provide second‑level support for regional employee inquiries regarding the Workday system.


• Assist in conducting local Workday user training across all organizations for Workday modules (HCM, Benefits, Recruiting, Advanced Compensation).


• Support the review and recommendation of enhancements for Workday's bi‑annual feature releases and assist with the implementation of approved new features and functions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Human Resources, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.


• 2-4 years of recent experience with the Workday product suite is required


• Demonstrated functional Workday experience with HCM, Recruiting, Benefits, Talent, and Compensation Workday applications.


• Self‑motivated, proactive, and capable of working on own initiative with limited supervision


• Ability to manage multiple, high priority tasks and adjust to shifting priorities, while meeting deadlines.


• Business mindset with deep knowledge of HR functional processes.


• Details oriented, goal driven, self‑motivated, organized, multi‑tasker, committed to excellence


• Able to converse effectively in English.

Location

• India – (Flexible hybrid work model - work from Bangalore office for 20 days in a quarter)