Workday Platform Developer

Svitla Systems, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses for article writing

Free tech webinars and meetups

Remote-friendly / flexible workspace

Regular corporate online activities

Awesome team and supportive community

Job summary

Svitla Systems Inc. is seeking a Workday Platform Developer for a full-time position in the USA. The role focuses on platform stability, configuration, production support, and integrations across Core HCM and VNDLY.

You will work with Product Management, HR Shared Services, and technical teams to keep the Workday platform reliable, scalable, and secure, while maintaining controlled operations and security. Remote flexibility is available.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Workday, including Core HCM.
• Hands-on Workday configuration: Business Processes, condition rules, validations, notifications, security, and worker lifecycle processes.
• Experience supporting worker and contingent worker lifecycle processes, including staffing, job changes, organizations, supervisory structures, and foundational data.
• Proven Workday production support, troubleshooting, incident resolution, and root-cause analysis across functional and technical issues.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operational health of Workday capabilities across Core HCM, Workday Help, and VNDLY.
• Investigate and resolve functional and technical production issues affecting Core HCM, Workday Help, and worker lifecycle data.
• Troubleshoot Business Processes, configuration, security, transactions, routing, and notifications to resolve unexpected behavior.
• Perform root-cause analysis for production-impacting issues and implement sustainable fixes.
• Maintain and improve Workday configuration health and proactively address debt and remediation areas.
• Support Workday integrations including inbound/outbound data flows and system-to-system dependencies.
• Collaborate with HR Shared Services and cross-functional teams to improve self-service, automation, and configuration.

Skills

Workday Core HCM

Production support

Workday configuration

Integrations

Security troubleshooting

Root-cause analysis

Communication & collaboration

Independent work

Tools

Workday

VNDLY

APIs

SOX/compliance tooling

Job description

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Workday Platform Developer for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in USA. Our client is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing job sites.

The People Foundation Pod supports Core HCM, Workday Help, and VNDLY, ensuring accurate worker, organization, employee service, and contractor lifecycle data. This hands-on contract role focuses on Workday platform stability, configuration, production support, security, integrations, and issue resolution. The developer works closely with Product Management, HR Shared Services, and technical teams to keep the platform reliable, scalable, secure, and well controlled.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Workday, with strong functional knowledge of Workday Core HCM.
• Hands-on experience with Workday configuration, including Business Processes, condition rules, validations, notifications, security assignments, and worker lifecycle processes.
• Strong experience supporting worker and contingent worker lifecycle processes, including staffing, job changes, organizations, supervisory structures, and foundational worker data.
• Proven experience with Workday production support, troubleshooting, incident resolution, and root-cause analysis across functional and technical issues.
• Ability to troubleshoot common Workday integration and data-flow issues, including inbound/outbound integrations and system-to-system dependencies.
• Experience identifying whether issues originate from Workday configuration, integration logic, or external systems, and partnering with Integration Developers to resolve them.
• Ability to work independently, follow established configuration and integration patterns, and implement sustainable fixes for recurring production issues.
• Strong understanding of Workday platform health, operational support, configuration maintenance, release readiness, and production stability.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with Product Management, Functional and Integration Development, HR Shared Services, and other Corporate Systems teams.
• Candidates with titles such as Workday HCM Consultant or Workday HCM Analyst should also be considered; sourcing should not be limited to Workday Platform Developer titles.

Nice to have

• Experience with Workday Help, including case routing, security, visibility, configuration, and business processes.
• Experience with VNDLY and contingent workforce processes.
• Experience with Workday Reporting and Calculated Fields.
• Experience with Workday Security Administration and security troubleshooting.
• Experience with SOX, audit, or User Access Reviews.
• Experience working in a large-scale or global Workday environment.
• Broader Workday integration experience beyond basic production troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Own the day-to-day operational health of Workday capabilities across Core HCM, Workday Help, and VNDLY within the People Foundation Pod.
• Investigate and resolve functional and technical production issues affecting Core HCM, Workday Help, worker lifecycle processes, and foundational worker data.
• Troubleshoot Business Processes, configuration, security assignments, transactions, routing, condition rules, notifications, validations, and unexpected system behavior.
• Perform root-cause analysis for production-impacting issues and implement sustainable fixes to prevent recurring incidents.
• Maintain and improve Workday configuration health, proactively identifying technical and functional debt and areas requiring remediation.
• Configure and maintain Workday functionality supporting worker and contingent worker lifecycle, organizations, supervisory structures, staffing, job changes, Business Processes, security, and foundational data.
• Support Workday integrations, including inbound and outbound data flows and system-to-system dependencies, partnering with Integration Developers to troubleshoot APIs, web services, middleware, and downstream systems.
• Determine whether issues originate from Workday configuration, integration logic, or external system behavior, and help validate data integrity across Workday and connected systems.
• Support the operational health and configuration of Workday Help, including case routing, security, visibility, and business process issues.
• Partner with HR Shared Services to identify systemic platform issues, reduce support volume, and improve self-service, automation, and configuration.
• Support VNDLY and contingent worker processes, troubleshooting worker data, lifecycle processes, and integration issues affecting contractors and downstream People processes.
• Partner with Procurement, Finance, Integration teams, Product Management, and other stakeholders on processes that cross organizational and system boundaries.
• Partner with Functional Developers when issues require larger enhancements, redesigns, or new Workday capabilities.
• Support release readiness, platform stability, security, and ongoing KTLO activities across the People Foundation domain.

We offer

• US and EU projects based on advanced technologies.
• Competitive compensation based on skills and experience.
• Flexibility in workspace, either remote or our welcoming office.
• Bonuses for article writing, public talks, and other activities.
• Free tech webinars and meetups organized by Svitla.
• Regular corporate online activities.
• Awesome team, friendly and supportive community!

Why join Svitla

Svitla Systems is a global digital solutions company headquartered in the U.S. and operating across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and APAC. Since 2003, we have served a wide range of clients - from innovative start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Our success is built on partnership. By integrating seamlessly with clients' teams, we create lasting collaborations that drive real results. We are strong advocates of workplace flexibility, remote culture, individual approach to professional and personal growth.

Our global mission is to build a business that contributes to wellbeing of our partners, personnel, and their families, improves our communities, and makes a lasting difference in the world. Together, we are coding a brighter tomorrow - and living it.