Applications Consultant

Role Overview

• Serves as a team leader/senior technical team member in the planning, designing, developing, implementing, and/or supporting complex to moderately complex new or revised processes, systems, or networks.
• Acts as an acknowledged expert in one or more technical specialties and/or mission critical application systems, and provides leadership in design, development and application integration.
• Ensures functional and technical designs support customer requirements.
• Develops an understanding of the Auto Club Group business strategy and competitive environment and translate and implements business strategies into technology solutions.
• Provides a high degree of technical and/or application expertise and design/programming leadership.
• Assists Security team in the development of appropriate audit controls and procedures to ensure the integrity and protection of company resources.
• Develops work plans and estimates projects and ensures that project team(s) and/or plan deliverables remain on schedule and budget.
• Design, build, test, and deploy complex integrations between Workday and third-party systems using Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Core Connectors, and Web Services (REST/SOAP).
• Develop and maintain data pipelines, datasets, and transformations in Workday Prism Analytics to integrate data from diverse sources and support advanced reporting needs.
• Have a deep understanding of both Workday HCM (Core HR, Benefits, Payroll, etc.) and Financial Management (Financial Accounting, Procurement, Expenses, Projects) modules.
• Configure Workday business processes, security roles, calculated fields, and custom objects to align with business requirements.
• Create and maintain custom, advanced, and matrix reports using Workday Report Writer, and build interactive dashboards and Discovery Boards to deliver key business insights.
• Research, analyze, and resolve technical issues within the Workday platform, providing ongoing production support and ensuring data integrity.
• Partner closely with cross-functional HR, Finance, and IT teams to gather requirements, define technical specifications, and ensure successful project delivery.
• Participate in Workday's semi-annual release cycles, including impact analysis, testing, and deployment of new features and functionalities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or an equivalent level of work experience.
• Designing, developing, implementing, or supporting complex to moderately complex information systems.
• Building or supporting mainframe or distributed systems.
• Identifying, analyzing and resolving complex business/technical problems.
• Technology assessment, recommendations and selection.
• Providing technical consultation/leadership to project teams.
• Staffing, coordinating/leading a large project team or a variety of small project teams.
• Budgeting and expense control.
• Mainframe, distributed, and/or Web-based system design and development.
• Database management systems.
• Programming languages.
• Prototyping.
• Database design.
• Project management tools and techniques.
• Multi-platform capabilities.
• User interaction.
• HTML and web development tools.
• System development tools (e.g. Endevor, IMS Expert, Xpediter, SQA Team Test, Eclipse).

Tech Stack

• Distributed Systems
• SOAP

Benefits

• Medical plans with multiple coverage options, including HSA eligibility.
• Prescription drug coverage.
• Dental and vision benefits.
• Employee Assistance Program (confidential support services).
• Company-paid basic life insurance.
• Optional supplemental life insurance and dependent coverage.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Critical illness, accident, and pet insurance options.
• 401(k) plan to support long-term financial goals.
• 3% automatic deferral upon eligibility; may contribute 1% to 50% of eligible earnings, either pre or post tax.
• Company match of 50% paid on employee contributions up to 6% of pay, payable to employees following the end of the year; immediate vesting.
• Additional company contribution of 4% of pay each pay day into your account; 100% vested after three (3) years of service.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) options.
• Accrual-based Paid Time Off (PTO), increases with tenure, eligible at 90 days of employment.
• Full-time new employees will receive up to 12 PTO days annually; accrual based on start date.
• Full-time employees are eligible for 10 company-paid holidays annually, in addition to 1 mental health day, 2 floating holidays and 1 volunteer day.
• Paid leave programs, including parental, bereavement, jury duty, and military leave.
• Tuition assistance (up to $5,250 annually; 80% covered by ACG).
• Professional certification support with 100% reimbursement for eligible programs.
• Opportunities for career development and advancement.
• Complimentary AAA membership with roadside assistance and travel discounts.
• Adoption assistance program.