Babson College · 3 months ago
Workday System Administrator
Wellesley MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid Level
3+ years expBabson College is seeking a Workday System Administrator to support and manage their Workday platform, focusing on the Student Information System and Finance. The role involves tenant management, system configuration, security administration, and collaboration with various stakeholders to maintain a secure and efficient system environment.
Higher Education
Responsibilities
Maintain a complete understanding of the system to act as a liaison between IT and functional areas within Student Information System, Finance, and Human Capital Management
Serve as the secondary security administrator for the student portion of the Workday Platform (and Finance as needed)
Extend custom application design, build, and deploy. This includes working independently to design, build, and deploy custom applications using Workday Extend—a platform that enables organizations to create tailored solutions that run natively within Workday. Extend functionality allows access to Workday data, business processes, and security models, enabling the development of apps that go beyond standard modules while maintaining a consistent user experience and compliance framework
Manage and maintain security groups, roles, and mapping to business processes, ensuring segregation of duties and compliance
Troubleshoot Workday Student area concerns related to business processes and domains, including access issues, conditional rules, and more
Independently support and communicate Workday releases and enhancements to maximize the system's capabilities, assisting with the implementation and testing of new features
Responsible for maintaining proper security to protect confidential information by documenting security changes and testing all security memberships
Follow and enhance change control processes for security related changes and integrations
Ensure a production quality system, by partnering and collaborating with Platform Manager and other cross functional leads across campus to troubleshoot and resolve production application issues; coordinate, review, test, and implement ongoing Workday system upgrades or patches
Be proactive in understanding inbound and outbound data integrations, monitoring system health, scheduled jobs, alerts and notifications and proactively addressing any key changes that are needed
Remain knowledgeable of the Workday roadmap and upcoming product releases, reviewing release notes, assessing new features and understanding the impacts to business processes and basic changes in functionality
Escalate any policy or process conflicts to Platform Manager
Participate in project scoping activities by collaborating with key Workday platform stakeholders, and at times campus partners, to assess integrations, define configurations, plan security and data needs, and support Workday Extend solutions—ensuring technical alignment, feasibility, and compliance with institutional goals. Sample project scope work includes the transition of Student Forms from ColdFusion to Workday Extend, enabling functionality enhancements to Procurement processes, and supporting learning program offerings aligned with undergraduate majors in the curriculum
Assume additional responsibilities as required
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree
A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in higher education and student information systems
Must have 2-3 years of Workday experience including knowledge of Workday integrations (e.g., Studio, Core Connectors, EIBs, PICOFs, Web Services & REST APIs)
Must have project management experience, leading multiple work-streams or small teams
Must have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Must have superior verbal and written communications skills with the ability to express technical concepts clearly and across all levels of an organization
Ability to effectively handle multiple tasks and priorities
Must have strong attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines
Ability to be a motivated, independent learner with a passion for IT topics
Ability to determine task priorities and plan and manage those priorities to move a project forward to completion
Ability to manage ambiguity and thrive in a fluid environment
Ability to envision and propose new methods to perform tasks that support ET&A; take thoughtful risks; and accept new and ongoing initiatives, objectives, and solutions to gain sought-after results
Ability to anticipate and embrace change; demonstrate willingness to achieve, acquire, and utilize new skills and challenging tasks; and is flexible in changing conditions
Must have strong computer skills including proficiency in Google Drive/Docs and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook/Calendar)
Must be highly independent and able to take initiative
Preferred
Prefer previous experience with Workday Extend
Prefer previous experience in student system implementations
Prefer Workday certification
Company
Babson College
The global leader in entrepreneurship education. The No. 1 undergraduate school and MBA for entrepreneurship 29 and 32 times in a row. (U.S.
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