Senior Software Engineer

Horizontal Talent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizontal Talent seeks a senior technical leader to guide HCM integrations within a complex enterprise environment in New York. You will partner with HCM leadership to provide architectural guidance, strengthen resilience, and ensure critical systems for benefits, payroll, equity, and employee data run smoothly.

You will drive technical direction, review architectures, mentor engineers, and coordinate with vendors to deliver scalable, compliant integrations with robust monitoring and incident

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise application engineering, HCM tech, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical counterpart to HCM integration leadership, providing continuity and day-to-day technical direction.
• Support integrations across HCM and third-party platforms, including benefits, payroll, equity, identity, and employee data systems.
• Guide solution architecture, design reviews, code quality, testing, deployment practices, monitoring, and production support.
• Act as a secondary escalation point for critical issues and help drive timely, thoughtful resolution.
• Strengthen operational coverage through documentation, knowledge transfer, cross-training, and clear ownership models.
• Partner with stakeholders on roadmap planning, prioritization, vendor coordination, and delivery execution.
• Mentor engineers and help promote consistent engineering practices across the team.
• Support incident management, root-cause analysis, and preventive improvements for business-critical systems.
• Help ensure integrations have appropriate monitoring, escalation paths, recovery procedures, and backup coverage.

Skills

10+ years

Technical leadership

HCM integrations

Oracle HCM Cloud

OIC

REST/SOAP APIs

iPaaS/middleware

SFTP/file transfers

HDL/HSDL

HCM security concepts

Visual Builder Studio

HCM workflows

SDLC

risk identification

communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Jira

Job description

Step into a key technical leadership role supporting HCM integrations in a complex enterprise environment. This position partners closely with HCM leadership to provide architectural guidance, strengthen operational resilience, and help ensure critical systems supporting benefits, payroll, equity, and employee data run smoothly.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical counterpart to HCM integration leadership, providing continuity and day-to-day technical direction.
• Support integrations across HCM and third-party platforms, including benefits, payroll, equity, identity, and employee data systems.
• Guide solution architecture, design reviews, code quality, testing, deployment practices, monitoring, and production support.
• Act as a secondary escalation point for critical issues and help drive timely, thoughtful resolution.
• Strengthen operational coverage through documentation, knowledge transfer, cross-training, and clear ownership models.
• Partner with stakeholders on roadmap planning, prioritization, vendor coordination, and delivery execution.
• Mentor engineers and help promote consistent engineering practices across the team.
• Support incident management, root-cause analysis, and preventive improvements for business-critical systems.
• Help ensure integrations have appropriate monitoring, escalation paths, recovery procedures, and backup coverage.

Skills

• 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise application engineering, HCM technology, integrations, or a related technical field.
• Experience in a lead, principal, or staff-level engineering role with responsibility for technical direction.
• Hands-on experience supporting HCM platforms and complex integrations in enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of Oracle HCM Cloud, OIC, Oracle HCM APIs, HCM Extracts, HDL/HSDL, and related Oracle integration tools.
• Experience with integration patterns such as REST/SOAP APIs, middleware/iPaaS, SFTP/file-based transfers, batch processing, and event-driven solutions.
• Ability to build and support HCM integration templates, fast formulas, and value sets.
• Understanding of HCM security concepts, including users, roles, access controls, and AOR support.
• Experience with Visual Builder Studio support for page customizations.
• Knowledge of HCM workflows, including routing, notifications, and approvals.
• Strong communication, organization, and prioritization skills with the ability to work across technical and business teams.
• Experience across the software development lifecycle, including design, development, review, testing, deployment, monitoring, and change management.
• Ability to identify risks, challenge technical decisions constructively, and guide scalable solutions.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting large-scale HCM portfolios across multiple vendors and business functions.
• Background supporting major implementations, migrations, or platform modernization efforts.
• Experience working with distributed onshore and offshore teams.
• Familiarity with SOX-controlled or similarly regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience helping establish on-call models, SLAs/SLOs, monitoring, and escalation frameworks.
• Experience reducing single points of failure through cross-training and succession planning.
• Proficiency with Jira for backlog management, planning, and sprint ceremonies.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.

Horizontal is committed to building an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, respected, and supported. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and bring their unique experiences to the team.

Applications will be accepted for 4 weeks.

For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement.

The pay range for this role is $47 - $82 per hour based on qualifications and experience.