Senior Workday Engineer

CoStar Group; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k) with matching

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Commuter benefits

Job summary

CoStar Group in Arlington, VA is seeking a Senior Workday Engineer to maintain and enhance Workday integrations across recruiting, payroll, benefits, and absence management. You will collaborate with IT and HR to gather requirements, design scalable solutions, and deploy integrations.

Strong Workday and web services skills are essential. Join a fast-paced team supporting data integrity and security, with opportunities to lead upgrades and mentor power users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, human resources, or related field.
• 5+ years of development experience, with 3+ years working with Workday.
• Experience integrating Workday modules (HCM, Recruiting, Payroll, Benefits, Absence, Security).
• Proficient with web services and integration tooling (REST/JSON/SOAP, EIB).

Responsibilities

• Maintain inbound and outbound integrations with multiple vendors.
• Configure Workday features in recruiting, absence, payroll, performance management, and benefits.
• Configure Workday security for authorized access.
• Collaborate with business and IT to gather requirements and deploy integrations.
• Identify opportunities for scalable automated solutions.
• Maintain data integrity for critical fields feeding other systems.
• Lead future development, upgrades, and additional applications.
• Coach power users on Workday functionality and usage.
• Work on cross-technology projects with broad scope.

Skills

Workday experience

REST/JSON/SOAP

Advanced Excel

Analytical skills

Project planning

Teamwork ability

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in IT / CS / HR / related field

Tools

Workday Studio

Workday Extend

Core Connectors

EIB / Web Services

Job description

Senior Workday Engineer

Job Description

Overview

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings to our customers. We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors. We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation. This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors. By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.

Responsibilities

• Maintain inbound and outbound integrations with multiple vendors
• Assist with the technical configuration to enable new Workday features in recruiting, absence, payroll, performance management and benefits modules
• Configure Workday security for authorized access
• Work directly with key business and IT stakeholders to establish requirements, consider design alternatives, facilitate discussions, ultimately configure, test and deploy integration solutions
• Identify opportunities within existing processes and implement scalable automated solutions
• Establish processes/controls to maintain data integrity for critical fields feeding into other systems
• Lead future development activities, including system upgrades and the implementation of additional applications and functionality
• Coach power users on Workday functionality and ensure they are leveraging Workday to the fullest
• Work on projects with a broad scope, involving multiple technologies

This position is located in Arlington, VA and offers a schedule of Monday through Thursday in office and the option to work from home Friday.

The Senior Engineer reports directly into the Director, HR Technology within the Human Resources organization at CoStar.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Human Resources, or a related field required from an accredited, in‑person, not for profit university or college
• A track record of commitment to prior employers
• 5+ years of development experience, including 3+ years of experience with Workday
• Experience working with Workday in a technical capacity with HCM, Recruiting, Payroll, Benefits, Absence Management, Compensation, Security, Report Writing, Integrations and business processes
• Experience in the development and maintenance of integrations using Workday’s core tools (Workday Studio, Workday Extend, Workday Prism, Core Connectors, CCB, Web Services, Enterprise Interface Builder/EIB)
• Able to demonstrate the creation of innovative solutions for complex Workday integrations
• Demonstrated proficiency with web service technologies (REST, JSON, SOAP, HTTP, SSL, PGP, SAML, etc.)
• Superior detail orientation, organization, and analytical skills
• Ability to create project plans and timelines based upon understanding of tasks and milestones
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment, and have a proven ability to work with others
• Ability to work well independently and under pressure, as well as be highly responsive to business needs
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel

What’s in it for You

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance‑based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, and tuition reimbursement.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical / Vision / Dental / Prescription Drug
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance
• Virtual and in‑person mental health counseling services for individuals and family
• Commuter and parking benefits
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• On‑site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes
• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to work full‑time in the United States to apply. However, please note that CoStar Group is not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.

CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug‑free workplace and perform pre‑employment substance abuse testing.