Senior Workday Engineer

The Senior HRIS Engineer will play a hands-on role in DDN’s multi-year business systems modernization.You will work on enhancing DDN’s HR technology ecosystem, with Workday as the core HCM platform while driving innovation in and around it through modern orchestration technology, workplace AI, and frontier models.Partnering closely with HR, Finance, and technical teams on solution design, our team is a group of highly talented, dedicated professionals who will challenge and empower you to solve big problems.What you’ll doServe as a key engineer and product lead for our Workday HCM deployment including configuration, testing, documentation, and ongoing enhancements in areas such as core HCM, time, absence, advanced comp, payroll, and benefitsPartner with HR stakeholders to translate business needs into practical system designs, process improvements, and supportable solutions.Configure and maintain HR business processes, security, calculated fields, reports, dashboards, and data validations as needed.Work closely with integration and automation team to improve connectivity between Workday and other internal/external applications for operations, analytics, workflow automation, and embedded AIHelp establish strong operational discipline through clear documentation, ticket handling, sprint participation, and visible delivery tracking.What we’re looking forA curious, service-oriented approach and a genuine interest in understanding the business context behind requirements.4-7 years of experience in HRIS, HCM systems, or Workday-focused engineering/analyst rolesPractical experience in several of the following areas: Core HCM, Reporting, Absence and Time Tracking, Talent Management, Payroll, and Benefits.Experience supporting system enhancements, implementations, or post-go-live optimization in a growth environmentData-driven mindset; able to use reporting and process insight to guide recommendations.Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain system behavior and tradeoffs clearlyNice to haveExperience working in global or multi-country HR environmentsExposure to Peakon, LMS platforms, or HR integrations.Experience partnering on automation, integrations, or AI-enabled workflow improvements.Exposure to work management technologies such as Jira and modern gen ai models such as claude and geminiThis role will be based in our Madrid city centre office with hybrid working model.

participation, and visible delivery tracking.What we’re looking forA curious, service-oriented approach and a genuine interest in understanding the business context behind requirements.4-7 years of experience in HRIS, HCM systems, or Workday-focused engineering/analyst rolesPractical experience in several of the following areas: Core HCM, Reporting, Absence and Time Tracking, Talent Management, Payroll, and Benefits.Experience supporting system enhancements, implementations, or post-go-live optimization in a growth environmentData-driven mindset; able to use reporting and process insight to guide recommendations.Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain system behavior and tradeoffs clearlyNice to haveExperience working in global or multi-country HR environmentsExposure to Peakon, LMS platforms, or HR integrations.Experience partnering on automation, integrations, or AI-enabled workflow improvements.Exposure to work management technologies such as Jira

You will work on enhancing DDN’s HR technology ecosystem, with Workday as the core HCM platform while driving innovation in and around it through modern orchestration technology, workplace AI, and frontier models., and modern gen ai models such as claude and geminiThis role will be based in our Madrid city centre office with hybrid working model.