Senior Data Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our team and deliver a fit-for-purpose Workday reporting portfolio, grounded in clearly documented and validated business requirements.

The role combines report development with business analysis, adjusted to programme priorities. You will work with business stakeholders, as well as the integration team, to design, build, test and deploy reports, dashboards and analytics that are secure, reusable and compliant with the reporting governance framework.

Key Responsibilities

Plan and facilitate requirements workshops, interviews and walkthroughs with business owners and subject-matter experts

Translate business questions into structured reporting requirements (purpose, audience, data elements, filters, prompts, frequency, security and distribution)

Analyse current-state reports from legacy systems and decide whether to retire, replace, consolidate or rebuild them in Workday

Challenge and prioritise requests against business value, data availability and delivered Workday functionality

Maintain a requirements inventory and traceability matrix, and obtain formal business sign-off on requirements and delivered reports

Design and build Workday reports of all types: Simple, Advanced, Matrix, Composite, Trending and Transposed

Develop dashboards, Discovery Boards and worklet-based analytics for managers and executives

Create and maintain calculated fields, custom report data sources and prompts, following naming and reuse standards

Build reports used as data sources for integrations (e.g. RaaS / Workday web services) in coordination with the integration team

Apply Workday domain and business process security so that users see only the data they are authorised to see

Optimise report performance and resolve defects

Prepare unit test evidence, support SIT and BAT execution and manage report migration across tenants

Produce functional and technical design documentation, user guides and a report catalogue

Transfer knowledge to report writers and key users, and provide hypercare support after go-live

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Data Engineering, Reporting or Business Intelligence, with strong hands-on experience in Workday reporting

Proven experience designing and building all main Workday report types, including Advanced, Matrix and Composite reports

Strong experience with calculated fields, custom report data sources, prompts and report scheduling and bursting

Experience building dashboards, Discovery Boards and worklet-based analytics

Good understanding of Workday domain and business process security

Experience building reports for integrations (RaaS / web services)

Experience supporting testing activities (unit, SIT, BAT) and release management across tenants

Solid experience in requirements gathering, business analysis and documentation

Understanding of reporting governance, data security and data protection requirements

Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail and problem-solving skills

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Fluent English

Nice to Have

Workday certification in reporting

Experience with Workday integrations and the integration team’s way of working

Experience working in large, complex enterprise environments

Experience migrating reports from legacy systems to Workday

Experience delivering training or knowledge transfer to report writers

You will be a great candidate for us if you

Enjoy turning business questions into clear, reusable reporting solutions

Take ownership of quality from requirements to hypercare

Are comfortable switching between hands-on development and business analysis

Have a structured approach to documentation and governance

Are proactive in challenging requests and prioritising by business value

Enjoy sharing knowledge with users and report writers

Benefits

Why join inventYOU

Work on challenging, large-scale Workday reporting projects

Deepen your expertise in Workday reporting and analytics

Combine technical delivery with business analysis in a single role

Collaborate with experienced technology and business professionals

Continue developing your career in Workday and enterprise data solutions

Originally posted on Himalayas