APAC Workday Payroll Engineer | AI-Enabled Deployments

Workday, Inc.; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work policy

Job summary

Workday, Inc. in Auckland, New Zealand, is seeking a Payroll Engineer to join the APAC Payroll Country Factory team. You will bridge the gap between engineers building payroll capabilities and professional services implementing them for customers across APAC/ASEAN, ensuring high-quality deployments.

The role involves shaping AI toolsets, collaborating across product and implementation partners, and training teams on payroll concepts while supporting production deployments in dynamic environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building, shipping, and supporting production-grade code.
• Experience integrating software with external systems, APIs, and enterprise data sources.
• 1-3+ years experience on Workday Payroll.

Responsibilities

• Align with implementation teams on customer projects to understand their technical environment, data, and country-specific requirements.
• Collaborate on design, build, and deployment of production-grade software and integrations inside live customer and partner environments to support Partners and/or our CX team members for new payroll deployments in new regions, not demos or proofs of concept.
• Collaborate on technical delivery end-to-end: discovery, scoping, architecture, implementation, testing, and rollout.
• Guide integration of payroll systems with customer data sources, APIs, and identity/access systems.
• Help troubleshoot and resolve implementation and production issues in real time, often in undefined problem spaces.
• Turn field learnings and recurring implementation needs into feedback that improves the core product and the AI toolset.
• Act as a trusted technical partner for implementation teams’ engineering and business stakeholders.
• Work closely with product, engineering, and implementation partners across the region.
• Help train and enable the deployment toolset on new capabilities, workflows, and lessons learned from the field.
• Train Customer Experience team members in partnership with the Product Optimization and Acceleration (PAO) team on payroll functionality, deployment processes, and troubleshooting.
• Train Solution Consultants in partnership with the PAO team on payroll so they can scope, demo, and position deployment capabilities.
• Support the payroll country development team directly on product and engineering work between implementation engagements

Skills

Software engineering

APIs

Workday Payroll

Programming

Cloud platforms

Communication skills

Travel/onsite

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Go

Java

Job description

Workday, Inc. in Auckland, New Zealand, is seeking a Payroll Engineer to join the APAC Payroll Country Factory team. You will bridge the gap between engineers building payroll capabilities and professional services implementing them for customers across APAC/ASEAN, ensuring high-quality deployments.

The role involves shaping AI toolsets, collaborating across product and implementation partners, and training teams on payroll concepts while supporting production deployments in dynamic environments.