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Lead Software Engineer

Pay rate £(Apply online only)/day - Umbrella.

Location UK - Halifax Trinity Road

Duration 6 months

About us;

We're the Workday Engineering Team! Our Workday Engineering chapter forms part of the People Platform and is an integral part of the People & Places function, charged with creating the conditions for our colleagues to be successful in delivering the Group's strategy.

Our team sits at the heart of Workday interaction, and we continually design, build and enhance complex integrations to expose, transform and ingest People data for a wide variety of internal and external systems, using a wide variety of API patterns. We collaborate with multiple business stakeholders throughout us and have an ever-growing portfolio of use cases ready and waiting for us.

What will you focus on in this role?

You'll use your proven understanding and expertise to assist with designing, building and unit testing code to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect. Starting with reviewing relevant problem statements, you'll work with the Chapter Lead to develop & implement relevant data solutions, then act as subject matter expert relating to those solutions post development.

Specific activities might include;

Design and develop integrations & consumer grade Extend applications in Workday that meet business requirements.

Build IT solutions that adhere to engineering standards throughout the software development life cycle.

Pair with other engineers to peer review code and technical documentation in accordance with our development standards.

Making sure code is kept up to date and version controlled within a GITHUB repository.

Collaborate with architects, business stakeholders and other engineers to produce application/design documentation.

Problem solving/debugging application production issues and minimise customer impact.

Mentor/coach other engineers to deliver high quality integrations and applications.

What do we need to see in your application?

We like people who come from diverse cultural & industry backgrounds, on your CV, we need to see the following to consider you for interview:

Career background working as mid to senior Software Engineer, with experience of the Workday System (must).

Workday Studio Extract Transform & Load (ETL) experience.

Technical skills in REST/SOAP, XSLT.

Good awareness of Integration Patterns.

Good awareness of Encryption & Authentication considerations.

Comfortable acting as a Subject Matter Expert on systems and collaboration with key business customer.In terms of personal qualities, we look for people with a can-do attitude, team players and natural problem solving mindset