About the AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines for some of the world's most serious diseases. But we're more than one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. 

At AstraZeneca, we're proud to have an outstanding workplace culture that inspires innovation and collaboration. Here, employees are empowered to express diverse perspectives - and are made to feel valued, energized and rewarded for their ideas and creativity. 

About the team

Join the Enabling Units IT team at AstraZeneca, where we support all operations and are on a mission to do more and be more. This is an exciting opportunity to shape our journey towards becoming a tech-enabled enterprise. We're introducing new solutions and technology through our investment in automated processes. It's by driving greater consistency and efficiency, that we will help to accelerate our next chapter of growth.

About The role

As a Workday Consultant, you will work with HR and other HR IT consultants designing, developing and implementing integrations to ensure internal and external systems are aligned. This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of projects and enhancements of our HR Information Systems.

The Associate Application Engineer will be accountable for:

• Focus on delivering integration solutions within workday. This includes collaborating with other IT teams in AstraZeneca (Identity Management, MuleSoft, etc) and our vendors’ IT Teams.
• Understand and analyze business requirements to resolve integration solutions across various types of tools and technologies, documentation of requirements, solutions and impacts, alternatives and final decisions.
• Participate in discovery sessions or workshops with our partners in Human Resources across multiple Centers of Excellence
• Work in a team environment, coordinating with teammates, Global Process Owners and members of HR.
• Understand and comply with AstraZeneca’s change and release methodology.
• Provide status reports to your Engagement Manager, technical lead or supervisor, keep them apprised of overall project situation. role, you will design, develop, and implement Workday’s integrations with other internal and external systems.

Requirements

Essential

• Strong consulting and presentation skills with the ability to optimally handle customer expectations.
• Desire and willingness to learn new tools, techniques, concepts, and methodologies.
• Strong analytical mindset and usage of analytics and reporting tools.
• Ability to learn technology quickly through instruction and self-training.
• Familiarity with HR systems and technologies (e.g., HRIS, ATS, LMS), with the ability to evaluate and recommend suitable solutions.
• Integration Expertise - EIB, Studio, CCW, CCB, Payroll Integrations, Extend, Knowledge on using API
• Knowledge of Web service-related topics (REST, JSON, SOAP, HTTP, SSL, PGP, SAML, OAuth, etc.).
• Experience in Workday reporting tools
• Experience in creating detailed system integration specifications, field mapping, and system process designs.
• Experience with the full lifecycle of both Workday implementations and upgrades
• Experience in providing Workday Support
• Ability to work creatively and analytically, prioritizing problem-solving.
• Clear and Effective communication
• Effective analytical skills

Desirable

• Experience with XML/XSLT and Java will be advantageous.
• Experience with the various technologies involved in SOA development (XML, XPath, XSLT, Web Services, etc.)

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together.

Interested? Come and join our journey.