Time for a change? Looking for a new challenge? At York we are embarking on a journey to transform our HR and Finance services by implementing a unified, cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system - Workday. By streamlining current processes and systems, we'll reduce bureaucracy, duplication and multiple systems, allowing us to focus on delivering better outcomes for our staff. It's a step towards creating a more connected, efficient, agile, and future-ready University focused on high-quality education and fulfilling our vision of public good. The Enterprise Business Platforms Team will be at the forefront of this transformation journey.
This role exists within the IT Services department, which is responsible for providing outstanding work, study and research facilities, as well as facilities to enhance the student experience, both on campus and online.
The IT Services department is critical to the delivery of those objectives, providing innovative, high-quality infrastructure, products and services that support all aspects of the customer experience. The software development teams are responsible for providing the technical infrastructure underpinning many of the University's core enterprise systems (such as the virtual learning environment, student record system, finance and HR systems) and develop a number of in-house products including our student mobile app (MyUoY), our module catalogue, and our staff directory. These are cross-functional teams composed of Developers, Product Owners, Business Analysts and more.
The Workday Development team sits alongside the Workday Support team and our Product Owners, and we will be collaborating closely. This is a new team that is being formed to develop and own the system integrations in and out of the Workday platform. It’s an exciting time to join the team, and a rare opportunity to have real impact from the start as we determine our ways of working and architectural patterns, with the vision of building more modern software development practices in and around the platform.
The role will include leveraging technologies both inside and outside the Workday platform in order to deliver high quality software following modern integration patterns. You will be spending your time building and supporting integrations in the platform directly, using Workday technologies such as Orchestrate, Connectors and Studio. We also have a tech stack which includes TypeScript, Node.js and React and is underpinned by AWS infrastructure, so you should be familiar with some of these technologies. We are happy to support training for individuals who have a strong software development background but less familiarity with the Workday platform itself.
As a member of the platform team you will support a number of other functions including platform security, data manipulation and advanced reporting.
As a Senior Software Developer the focus of your role is to provide senior technical leadership to developers who are working on new projects as well as supporting existing services. We expect Senior Developers to take a hands-on role working closely with Team Leaders and Product Owners to define common approaches to application development and integration. You will also coach and mentor other members of the team and support the team to adopt new technologies and ways of working.
Senior Software Developers are a critical role for advancing our technical capabilities and approach in IT Services. We are looking for curious individuals who are looking for the opportunity to have impact and drive meaningful change.
Our teams work on a hybrid basis, with some days present on our York campus. Most software delivery teams work on site once a week as a team and there are meeting or planning days roughly once a month. You should be able to attend these days in person in York.
You’ll be involved in all aspects of software development: planning, writing and delivering software, maintaining automated tests and deployment and contributing to your team’s product roadmap.
You will be working in a highly collaborative environment, with activities ranging from task refinement, feature ideation, and collaborating on design and technical decisions. You will also have opportunities to attend developer sessions and communities of practice and spend up to one afternoon a week on personal development.
- Provide technical expertise and leadership to the development of strategic IT services and systems, typically through being a senior technical lead on major project teams and working parties.
- Alongside other Senior Software Developers, create a culture of continuous improvement in the design and delivery of applications and integrations, taking responsibility for a programme of peer led support and professional development.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary agile team, building and maintaining Workday integrations to support stakeholders throughout the university.
- Actively contribute to and help define the team’s roadmap, agile processes, coding standards, automated testing, delivery pipelines and documentation.
- Collaborate with others by pairing, reviewing, and leading joint design sessions within the team and with the wider Enterprise Business Platforms team to deliver high quality solutions.
- Work with a range of technologies including Typescript and CDK, as well as Workday-specific technologies such as Orchestrate and Connectors.
- Provide support for Workday platform internals - security, reporting data, integration schedules and more.
- Participate in Workday updates and ensure integrations are updated and tested accordingly.
- Provide second-line support for the Workday platform, triaging and responding to issues.
Interview date: To be confirmed
For informal enquiries: please contact Chris Evans, Software Development Team Leader on email ([email protected]).
The University strives to be diverse and inclusive – a place where we can ALL be ourselves.
We particularly encourage applications from people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, who are underrepresented at the University.
We offer family friendly, flexible working arrangements, with forums and inclusive facilities to support our staff. #EqualityatYork
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum (essential) criteria for each position will be offered an interview. Read more about the University of York’s commitments under the Disability Confident scheme.
