Software Engineer II (Workday Integration, Studio and Extend)

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Human Resources, Project Management, Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range$120,400.00 - $198,700.00

1

Travelers is seeking a Software Engineer II to join our organization as we grow and transform our Technology landscape. This role will primarily partner with stakeholders across Human Resources, and will complete advanced end to end engineering tasks for specific system assignments including designing, developing, analyzing, configuring, testing, debugging, troubleshooting, documenting, health monitoring/alerting, and implementing based on user or system specifications. Will be consulting with users to determine hardware, software or system functional specifications, managing interaction between the systems and other technical support areas and defining technical requirements and coordinating team resources to solve problems.What Will You Do?

• Primary lead in the Software Engineering Workday Integration space, to include performing analysis, design, development, and configuration functions (includes defining technical requirements) with a high degree of accuracy and speed, operating as an individual contributor to team goals.
• Understands the political nature of the organization and works appropriately within it; effectively establishes collaborative relationships and alliances throughout the organization.
• Perform analysis, assessment and resolution for defects and incidents of advanced complexity and escalate appropriately.
• Work independently to tackle well-scoped and loosely scoped problems.
• Seek opportunities to expand technical knowledge and capabilities.  Understands impacts of changes to Workday. Identifies potential impacts in other systems domains.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to less experienced employees.
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Production support/troubleshooting:

• Leads troubleshooting and defect resolution. This includes requesting resources, migration through environments and ticket management.
• Proactively communicates status of enhancements, change requests and defects. Responsible for change, defect and enhancement request process and assignment of approved work for team.
• Simultaneously supports multiple projects as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Four years of programming/development experience.
• Two years of Workday Experience in building integrations using Report Writer, EIB, and Workday Studio needed.
• Workday Extend knowledge and experience preferred.
• Delivery - Intermediate delivery skills including the ability to estimate accurate timelines for tasks and deliver work at a steady, predictable pace to achieve commitments, contribute to the software design strategy and methodologies used to best meet the system requirements, consider and build for many different use cases, avoid over engineering, and ensure automation, deliver complete solutions but release them in small batches, and identify important tradeoffs and negotiate them.
• Domain Expertise - Demonstrated track record of domain expertise including understanding technical concepts necessary to do the job effectively and aware of industry trends, demonstrate willingness, cooperation, and concern for business issues and priorities, and possess in depth knowledge of immediate systems worked on and some knowledge of adjacent systems.
• Problem Solving - Strong problem solver who ensures solutions are built for the long term, is able to resolve new issues, recognizes mistakes using them as learning and teaching opportunities and consistently breaks down large problems into smaller, more manageable ones.
• Communication - Strong communicator who possesses the ability to articulate information clearly and concisely with the business, document work in a clear, easy to follow manner, collaborate well with team members as both a mentor and mentee, take in vague requirements and ask the right questions to ensure clarification, offer feedback appropriately and effectively, seek out and receives constructive criticism well, listen when others are speaking and make space for colleagues to share their thoughts.
• Leadership - Intermediate leadership skills with the ability to help create a safe environment for others to learn and grow as engineers and a proven track record of self-motivation in identifying opportunities and tracking team efforts.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, related STEM field, or its equivalent in education and/or work experience.
• 4 additional years of software engineering experience.