Payroll Platform Engineer (APAC) – AI-Driven Deployments

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

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Payroll Engineer for the APAC Payroll Country Factory team. You will bridge between engineering building payroll capability and professional services implementing it for customers in APAC/ASEAN, shaping AI toolsets, and ensuring high-quality deployments.

You will align with implementers, design and deploy production-grade software, and troubleshoot issues in real-time. The role requires Workday Payroll experience and strong collaboration with cross-functional teams

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience integrating software with external systems, APIs, and enterprise data sources.

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

Workday Payroll

API integration

Cloud/CI-CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Go/Java

Job description

Workday, Inc. is seeking a Payroll Engineer for the APAC Payroll Country Factory team. You will bridge between engineering building payroll capability and professional services implementing it for customers in APAC/ASEAN, shaping AI toolsets, and ensuring high-quality deployments.

You will align with implementers, design and deploy production-grade software, and troubleshoot issues in real-time. The role requires Workday Payroll experience and strong collaboration with cross-functional teams