Sr Data Engineer (Workday)

CNA Insurance is dedicated to fostering a culture where employees feel valued and empowered. The Sr. Data Engineer specializes in Workday systems analysis and design, focusing on integration development to support financial operations, while ensuring accurate data transformations and seamless processing within the Workday Finance suite.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluates complex client area requirements and processes and designs or prepares application system specifications and develops, tests and implements efficient and cost-effective application solutions. Includes issue resolution and ongoing system maintenance
• May lead to the integration of vendor applications and consulting resources with existing applications and resources. May hold the development lead or sub lead role on a project and/or program
• Acts as technical consultant to programming staff and/or business unit to mentor staff in all phases of the program development, testing and implementation process. Participates instructing, directing, and checking the design or applications of work of others
• Coordinates the activities of the section with the client area and other IT areas (e.g., infrastructure, testing, and solutions)
• Research and evaluate new, alternative solutions, and/or architecture and recommend the most efficient and cost-effective solution for the system's design, including estimating costs as necessary
• Acts as a liaison between clients, vendors, consulting resources, and applications area. Assists with relationship management, contract negotiations, and ensuring adherence to requirements
• May participate in developing recommendations for architecture direction and applications portfolio
• In conjunction with the operations area, technical staff support the implementation of the application into production and testing environments. May confer with technical personnel to identify and resolve issues
• May perform additional duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Technical Workday Skills: Workday Studio, Prism Workday EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder), Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST APIs), Workday Report Writer, calculated fields and Extend (custom development) experience a plus
• Experience with Workday AI solutions
• Understanding Workday Finance (Accounting Center, AP, Treasury). Experience with Workday HCM a plus
• Proven history in large-scale Workday deployments, including integration, testing, and cutover planning
• Ability to manage projects and lead teams across multiple Workday applications
• Solid technical knowledge of high-level programming languages, databases, interfaces, and familiarity with application program development alternatives
• In-depth knowledge of the system development life cycle, and system and application program development technological alternatives. Other technologies will apply depending on the business area supported
• Proven solid analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong knowledge of interface design
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with peers, IT management and staff, and internal/external business partners/clients
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• Typically, a minimum of seven years of systems analysis and application program development experience
• Some previous project leadership experience
• Preferred insurance industry knowledge
• Workday Applicable certifications preferred