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Technical Lead, Application Development (Workday)

VERSANT Media

Multiple Locations (United States)Hybrid
  • New Jersey
  • New York

About the role

TL;DR

Hybrid role based in New York City or Englewood Cliffs, NJ, with three onsite days each week. Lead the design, delivery, and support of Workday-centered Core HR and Payroll systems, while managing internal engineers, architects, and onshore/offshore partners. Requires 6+ years in software engineering, 3+ years leading delivery teams, and 4+ years as a Workday developer, including a full implementation and hands-on Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, APIs, Extend or Build, and Prism.

Versant is seeking a Technical Lead, Core HR Systems to lead the design, development, deployment, and ongoing support of key components of Versant’s core HR ecosystem, centered on Workday. This role plays a critical hands-on lead DevOps position in delivering reliable, scalable solutions that support Versant’s workforce with delivering SaaS and custom solutions.

You will build and lead high-performing teams of engineers and solution leads responsible for platform architecture, delivery, integrations, and operational excellence. You will partner closely with stakeholders across Payroll, HR, Time, Broadcast and Sports Operations, Product, Data & Analytics, and Enterprise Technology to ensure HR & Payroll solutions are well-architected, secure, and aligned to business priorities.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Strategy & Architecture

  • Contribute to the definition and execution of Core HR & Payroll platform standards, patterns, and roadmaps across HR, Payroll, Time, & Broadcast & Sports Operations

  • Design and implement scalable, secure custom and SaaS solutions that meet defined business and technical requirements

  • Ensure solutions align with architecture standards and integrate cleanly with upstream and downstream systems

  • Evaluate and implement new technology capabilities (automation, AI features, data unification, packaged SaaS solutions) in support of product and business needs

  • Collaborate with architecture, product, and data teams to ensure consistency and reusability across platforms

Delivery & Operations Excellence

  • 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

Partner & Team Leadership

  • Serve a critical role as the Development Lead for Versant’s planned transformation of their key HR & Payroll Systems

  • Build and lead a blended organization of internal engineers, architects, and contracted delivery partners both on and offshore

  • Serve as an accountable leader for contracted and managed service partners, ensuring delivery quality, cost effectiveness, and strategic alignment

  • Define clear scopes of work, service-level expectations, and governance processes with delivery partners

  • Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and learning - balancing partner execution with internal engineering capability

  • Mentor and develop team members, driving engagement, accountability, and professional development

  • Assist with managing budgets and resource plans, ensuring optimal allocation across initiatives

Governance, Security & Stakeholder Alignment

  • Ensure HR & Payroll solutions comply with corporate security, privacy, and regulatory requirements

  • Adhere to established governance processes including change management, version control, and documentation

  • Partner with Legal, Privacy, and Security teams to support secure handling of customer and business data

  • Provide regular status updates on delivery progress, risks, and operational health to technology and business stakeholders

  • Act as a trusted technical advisor for HR and Payroll engineering within cross-functional

Qualifications

Basic Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years leading medium to large engineering delivery teams (both on and offshore)

  • 4+ Year of in-depth experience was a Workday developer with at least one full implementation cycle of Workday HMC while serving in a senior lead developer capacity

  • Strong hands-on experience with Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Core Connectors, and Workday APIs leveraging modern authentication protocols

  • Experience architecting, developing, and deploying custom solutions with the Workday Extend and/or the Workday Build Ecosystem

Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing 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

  • Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical stakeholders

  • Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills

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

Desired Characteristics

  • Experience in media, entertainment, or consumer-facing digital businesses

  • Experience delivering HR & Payroll solutions with SAP & SuccessFactors

  • Experience with API Management solutions (MuleSoft, Apigee, Kong) and applying an API first methodology to integration

  • Familiarity with good UI/UX design principles as well as industry accessibility standards (WCAG)

  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, Salesforce, AWS, GCP)

  • Experience building custom web applications with React/JAVA

  • Familiarity with Workday Canvas Kit

  • Interest in modernizing custom and SaaS platforms and improving developer productivity

Additional Information

Location: New York City, NY or Englewood Cliffs, NJ - (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

Employees based in our Englewood Cliffs office have access to a variety of convenient on-site services and amenities, including free employee parking, complimentary electric vehicle charging stations, an on-site fitness center with locker rooms and towel service, and dry-cleaning drop-off and pick-up.

To support an easier commute, shuttle service is also available to and from the Englewood Cliffs campus, with pickup locations across Manhattan’s East Side and West Side, Brooklyn, Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, and Secaucus.

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