UKG Systems Engineer: Integrations & Automation Lead

Private Advertiser; Makati; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Private Advertiser in Makati is seeking a Systems Engineer (UKG) to own the UKG platform architecture, integrations, and data interfaces across HR, Payroll, and IT. You will design, develop, and maintain middleware and API connections to deliver scalable, reliable data exchanges and automation.

You will collaborate with the HRIS Owner, HR, and operations teams to translate requirements into technical solutions, implement platform upgrades, and provide production support.

Qualifications

• 5+ years supporting enterprise applications and systems integrations.
• Experience administering and supporting UKG Pro platform.
• Experience developing and supporting API integrations and web services.
• Experience with SFTP, ETL processes, middleware platforms, and data transformation technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience supporting production environments and critical business applications.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement, and maintain integrations between UKG and enterprise applications.
• Serve as the technical owner of all inbound and outbound UKG data interfaces.
• Develop and support API, SFTP, file-based, middleware, and web service integrations.
• Evaluate and recommend integration approaches that improve scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Create reusable integration frameworks and technical standards.
• Support the end-to-end lifecycle of integrations from requirements through deployment and production support.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve interface failures, data transmission errors, and synchronization issues.
• Perform root cause analysis for integration incidents and implement preventative solutions.
• Validate data movement across systems to ensure completeness, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Establish proactive monitoring and alerting for critical interfaces.
• Partner with infrastructure and application teams to identify and resolve technical dependencies.
• Support technical design and delivery of UKG-related enhancements, implementations, and platform upgrades.
• Collaborate with business and system owners to translate functional requirements into technical solutions.
• Build and maintain technical components required to support new initiatives.
• Develop automation solutions that reduce manual processing and improve operational efficiency.
• Participate in enterprise architecture discussions impacting HR technology platforms.
• Lead technical workstreams for UKG implementations, upgrades, acquisitions, and integration projects.
• Develop technical specifications, interface mappings, transformation logic, and deployment documentation.
• Execute system, integration, and regression testing activities.
• Coordinate production releases and post-deployment validation activities.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on system stability, automation, and scalability.
• Maintain technical documentation for integrations, interfaces, data mappings, workflows, and support procedures.
• Maintain system inventories, interface catalogs, and architectural diagrams.
• Ensure solutions comply with established security, audit, and data governance standards.
• Participate in periodic audit reviews and technical compliance assessments.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning for critical integrations.

Skills

API integrations

SFTP

ETL processes

Middleware platforms

Data transformation

Troubleshooting

Production environments

Automation

Tools

UKG Pro platform

API tooling

Job description

Private Advertiser in Makati is seeking a Systems Engineer (UKG) to own the UKG platform architecture, integrations, and data interfaces across HR, Payroll, and IT. You will design, develop, and maintain middleware and API connections to deliver scalable, reliable data exchanges and automation.

You will collaborate with the HRIS Owner, HR, and operations teams to translate requirements into technical solutions, implement platform upgrades, and provide production support.