Workday Architect - MasterBrand Cabinets LLC

For nearly 70 years, MasterBrand has been shaping the places where people come together, enriching lives and creating meaningful memories for our customers. That, combined with our stylish products, expansive dealer and retail network, and dedicated associates, has helped make us the number one North American residential cabinet business. Our unique culture of continuous improvement is based on trusting the tools, empowering the team and moving forward, and is kept alive by our more than 14,000 associates across 20 plus manufacturing facility and offices. Visit www.masterbrand.com to learn more and join us in building great experiences together!

The Workday Integration Architecture is responsible for architecting, researching, designing, developing over 100 complex Workday integrations! In this role, you will be a member of the Workday Integration team that works with HR, Payroll, Time & Attendance, Recruiting/LMS teams to manage and support several Workday integrations. We are looking for self-starters, those who can work independently, with and across teams. You will coordinate client interviews, vendor meetings to produce detailed specifications and eventually write integration code to move data in and out of the WD system. You will work closely with business analysts, designers, and subject matter experts to understand functional requirements and conduct unit tests and document findings. This individual must apply strategic and creative thinking, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help maximize the benefit of our IT system investments.

Responsibilities:

• Understand database architecture, tables, functional interactions, and recognize and understand impacts to downstream systems

• Lead initiatives to analyze business problems to be solved with technology-based solutions. Supports multi-functional efforts to identify, interpret and produce recommendations based on company’s system needs. Advises business and IT groups by providing technical direction to identify and address business issues and opportunities

• Take overall technology ownership and lead the strategic planning, architecture, design, development, deployment, and support of new applications with focus on SaaS / Cloud Applications, integrations and enhancements to existing applications

• Ensure relevant cybersecurity controls, backup and DR plans are effectively implemented, updated, and maintained for all applications under purview

• Ensure solutions provide consistent IT building blocks to effectively integrate with other functional areas, while promoting standardization and integration across our enterprise application suite

• Understand business problems and opportunities in the context of the software requirements and recommend solutions that enable the specific functional organization to achieve its goals

• Report status of on-going prioritized projects to functional and IT leadership.  Identify and resolve ongoing day-to-day business issues pertaining to IT

• Work with end users and analysts to fulfill project requests through development or enhancement of Workday and any peripheral systems e.g., SmartRecruiters, Glint, Dormakaba, Inspired eLearning etc.

• Provide on-going support on “break-fix” issues for existing and / or new applications

• Produce high quality documentation for requirements, solution options, business cases, and recommending optimum solutions

• Manage enhancement requests, testing requirements during implementation, acceptance, installation, and deployment of solution

• Work directly with the vendors as needed for troubleshooting and evaluation of new technology solutions

• Collaborate with associates in other business functions and / or divisions as necessary on projects and tasks

• 5-8 years related work experience

• Strong expertise in Workday Integrations and implementation tools (Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Workday Report Writer, Workday Cloud Connect, Calculated fields and Workday Studio)

• Proficient in Workday core HR, Payroll, Time & Attendance and Benefits business processes

• Experience with Web Services and APIs (WSDL, SOAP, REST and WS standards)

• Technical experience with XML and XSLT

• Strong change management skills and the willingness to make a difference.

• Good understanding of project management methodologies.

• Data analysis skills to identify what data the business currently has, what data needs to be carried over to a new system and what data needs to be constructed.

• Data cleansing knowledge in scrubbing current state data for future state data and processes.

• Familiar with agile development principles

• Knowledge of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL) and familiarity with Microsoft Power BI

Education: 

• Degree in the field of business administration, business management, computer science, accounting, MIS or Manufacturing.

Equal Employment Opportunity

MasterBrand Cabinets LLC is an equal opportunity employer. MasterBrand Cabinets LLC’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability/handicap status, marital status, military status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws. MasterBrand Cabinets LLC also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also MasterBrand Cabinets LLC’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Reasonable Accommodations

MasterBrand Cabinets LLC is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment, please contact us at staffing@masterbrand.com.