Systems Engineer - Workday Platform

SalesForce-ad; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

SalesForce-ad in Hyderabad is seeking a Systems Engineer for a techno-functional role bridging technical and functional delivery with a focus on Workday security and administration across Workday HCM and Workday Financials.

You will spend time breaking down requirements, configuring systems, testing, and supporting release cycles while coordinating with integration engineers and business SMEs to ensure compliant and robust solutions.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years hands-on Workday configuration/implementation.
• Ability to break down business use cases into technical requirements, acceptance criteria.
• Experience leading UAT and coordinating defect triage with business SMEs.
• Working knowledge of platform security frameworks, business processes, and reporting/integration.
• Experience with SOX or similar compliance control ownership, including audit support.
• Experience conducting peer reviews of configuration work.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology, backlog refinement and sprint delivery.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Independently decompose Product Manager-authored use cases into technical requirements, user stories, edge cases, and validation rules.
• Perform hands-on configuration across primary platforms; document design tradeoffs and rationale behind decisions.
• Conduct build vs. buy feasibility assessments and surface recommendations to Product Manager.
• Lead UAT execution for assigned features; prep test environments, guide business SMEs through testing, and triage/resolve defects for re-testing.
• Write and maintain integration-aware test cases; execute end-to-end regression testing across system boundaries.
• Identify upstream/downstream integration impacts before build begins and coordinate with integration engineers.
• Author release notes documenting changes, testing, and impacts.
• Perform peer reviews of configuration authored by team members and MSPs.
• Design and implement Workday security models, perform impact analysis and recommend best practices.
• Manage periodic platform release implementation (quarterly/bi-annual).
• Own SOX IT Application Control mechanics for assigned systems and support audits.
• Participate in backlog refinement and Big Room Planning; ensure Definition of Ready for sprint items.
• Contribute to AI/Agent build tasks and basic Agentforce flows within assigned systems.
• Support production triage and root-cause analysis with Ops/engineering.

Skills

Workday configuration

UAT leadership

SOX/compliance ownership

Agile/Scrum

Requirement breakdown

Integration awareness

Security model design

Stakeholder communication

Release management

Peer reviews

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

GIT

CI/CD

Workday security framework tools

JIRA

Job description

Job Description:

We are looking for a Systems Engineer for a techno-functional role that bridges technical and functional delivery, with security architecture and administration as the core focus, spanning Workday HCM and Workday Financials modules within IT Finance and Employee Success. One would spend time on requirements breakdown and elaboration, configuration, testing execution, compliance mechanics, sprint-level delivery and post-production validation, working with minimal supervision. Integration awareness is also required to evaluate technical complexity and feasibility. Strong understanding of the Workday security framework is required.

Key Responsibilities

• Independently decompose Product Manager-authored use cases and problem statements into detailed technical requirements, user stories, edge cases, and validation rules.
• Perform hands-on configuration across primary assigned platforms; evaluate design tradeoffs and document the rationale behind configuration decisions.
• Conduct build vs. buy feasibility assessments (technical complexity, integration impact, effort) and surface recommendations to the Product Manager.
• Lead UAT execution for assigned features — prep test environments, guide business SMEs through testing, and triage/resolve defects for re-testing.
• Write and maintain integration-aware test cases; execute end-to-end regression testing across system boundaries.
• Identify upstream/downstream integration impacts before build begins and coordinate with integration engineers.
• Author release notes documenting what changed, how it was tested, and known impacts or dependencies.
• Perform peer reviews of configuration authored by other team members and managed service providers.
• Design and implement Workday security models, perform impact analysis and recommend the best practices.
• Manage periodic platform release implementation (e.g., quarterly/bi-annual platform releases) for assigned systems.
• Own SOX IT Application Control mechanics for assigned systems — complete quarterly control certifications and support audit walkthroughs independently.
• Participate actively in backlog refinement and Big Room Planning sessions; ensure Definition of Ready compliance for sprint items.
• Begin contributing to AI/Agent build tasks — configure and test basic Agentforce flows or platform AI features within assigned systems.
• Support production triage and contribute to root cause analysis when issues occur, escalating and coordinating with Ops/engineering as needed.

Required Experience

• 3-5 years of hands-on configuration/implementation experience with Workday.
• Demonstrated ability to independently break down business use cases into detailed technical requirements, configuration specs, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience leading UAT execution, including defect triage and resolution coordination with business SMEs.
• Working knowledge of platform security frameworks, business processes, and reporting/integration.
• Experience with SOX or similar compliance control ownership, including audit walkthrough support.
• Experience conducting peer reviews of configuration work.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodology, including backlog refinement and sprint delivery.
• Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs and status clearly to Product Managers and stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant experience.

Desired Experience And Qualifications

• Basic exposure to configuring or testing AI/agentic features (e.g., Agentforce, Einstein, or equivalent platform AI capabilities).
• Experience managing scheduled Workday platform release cycles.
• Familiarity with integration frameworks and coordinating with integration engineers on cross-system dependencies.
• Experience with Version Control, Code Collaboration, and Continuous Integration systems (e.g., GIT).
• Exposure to Geo Expansion or M&A system onboarding activities.
• Experience working in SaaS/PaaS architectures and enterprise IT environments.
• Workday Security Pro certified.
• A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering — using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.
• Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor, etc.) in development workflows.
• Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.