Technical Lead, Core HR & Workday Platforms

Versant Media; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site parking and shuttle service

On-site fitness center

Employee parking and charging stations

Job summary

Versant Media is seeking a Technical Lead, Core HR Systems to drive design, build, deployment, and ongoing support of our Workday-based HR ecosystem. You will lead engineers and solution leads, partnering with Payroll, HR, Time, and Analytics teams to ensure secure, scalable HR solutions aligned with business priorities.

The role requires 6+ years in software engineering with Workday leadership, along with strong DevOps, CI/CD, and stakeholder management skills; hybrid work in Englewood

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with at least 3 years leading medium to large delivery teams (onshore and offshore).
• 4+ years as a Workday developer with at least one full implementation cycle of Workday HCM in a senior lead capacity.
• Hands-on experience with Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, and Workday APIs.
• Experience architecting, developing, and deploying custom solutions with the Workday Extend and/or the Workday Build Ecosystem.
• Strong hands‑on experience designing data ingestion pipelines into Workday Prism for advanced analytics, reporting, and integrations.
• Experience with Workday Job Scheduling tools and managing a large array of integrations.
• Experience configuring Workday’s portal self‑service experience including role‑based landing pages, worklets, announcements, quick actions, and business processes.
• Proven experience delivering complex enterprise applications implementations with multiple integrations to multiple SaaS platforms.
• Strong experience delivering HR & Payroll solutions, especially with integrating HR Data and Benefits
• Experience leading agile teams and working within CI/CD and DevOps delivery models
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery for Core HR & Payroll initiatives, from technical design through build, test, deployment, and post-go-live support.
• Oversee technical delivery, release planning, and environment management to ensure stability and predictable releases.
• Enforce best practices in DevOps, code quality, documentation, and automated testing.
• Partner with integration, data, and infrastructure teams to ensure reliable interoperability and data flows.
• Monitor platform performance and operational health, driving root‑cause resolution and continuous improvement.
• Serve as Development Lead for Versant’s transformation of key HR & Payroll systems; mentor and develop team members.

Skills

Leadership

Agile methodologies

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering / Information Systems

Tools

Workday Studio

EIB

Core Connectors

Workday APIs

Workday Extend/Build

CI/CD

DevOps

Job description

Versant Media is seeking a Technical Lead, Core HR Systems to drive design, build, deployment, and ongoing support of our Workday-based HR ecosystem. You will lead engineers and solution leads, partnering with Payroll, HR, Time, and Analytics teams to ensure secure, scalable HR solutions aligned with business priorities.

The role requires 6+ years in software engineering with Workday leadership, along with strong DevOps, CI/CD, and stakeholder management skills; hybrid work in Englewood