Workday Services Integration Lead

**Working at WPP means being part of a global network of more than 100,000 talented people in 112 countries. Our company creates transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce and technology. WPP and our award-winning agencies work with most of the world's biggest companies and organisations - from Ford, Unilever and P&G to Google, HSBC and the UN. Our clients include 69 of the FTSE 100, 348 of the Fortune Global 500, all 30 of the Dow Jones 30 and 70 of the NASDAQ 100.**

**WPP has headquarters in New York, London and Singapore and a corporate presence in major markets worldwide. The company is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.**

**WPP IT provides IT services for WPP, the world's largest creative transformation company. WPP is reinventing creativity on an ever-broader canvas, bringing together unrivalled talent, resources and skills to provide an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce and technology for clients.**

**WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP's petabytes of data**

**WPP have selected Workday as their innovative HCM, Finance & PSA (Professional Services Automation) system of choice to meet changing demands and roles will be instrumental in rolling out and servicing one of the most exciting Workday programmes for a global business right now.**

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**Why we're hiring**:
At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT's mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitise colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP's petabytes of data.

Reporting to Workday Services Technical Manager this role is accountable for ensuring that new Workday integrations or enhancements to existing integrations is designed and solutioned correctly, with responsibility to ensure all downstream impacts are captured and planned. You will also be required to manage and mentor a team of technical solutions architects, integration consultants and analysts who will provide their skillset across functional and business teams throughout the program lifecycle for BAU and project work.

This is an exciting and varied opportunity to establish a team that can utilise their creative and analysis skills to overcome complex technical issues helping Workday send and receive data critical to business functionality.

The Workday Services team provides technical program deployment, post go-live support and enhancement of the Workday solution that replaces some of our core technology and influences our ways of working for many of our colleagues at WPP. This flagship programme will see Workday deployed across our global landscape to address the technology needs of Finance, Projects (PSA) and our HR function - so essentially it touches all of our employees to some degree. The key to this programme is that technology is an enabler for change, it's at the heart of what we do, but it's not all of what we do. The people aspects of this programme are vital to its success. This role will help deliver that success on an ongoing basis for many years to come

**What you'll be doing**:

- Manage Workday integration team including solution architects, integration consultants & analysts
- Manage integration support team and small projects as and when required
- Work closely with the technical manager to allocate resources across support and project work
- Build strong relationships with business stakeholders, Workday functional teams, 3rd Party System Integrators and WPP IT Strategy & Architecture and Service Management
- Responsible for analyzing business requirements and extracting information of Workday implementation importance
- Responsible for the delivery and reporting of Workday technical integration workstream deliverables
- Responsible for the discovery and design of technical integrations for the Workday deployments and enhancements
- Ensuring that technical solution deliverables are documented including requirements, design and testing requirements
- Provide technical support and guidance to the Workday functional and testing teams
- Provide technical governance and guidance to the WPP and 3rd Party implementation teams to ensure alignment of the developed solution to the overall Workday solution design.
- Ensure developed solutions meet business, technical and operational support requirements.
- Provide architecture support to the WPP Workday implementation and support teams
- Maintain awareness of Workday technology e.g. WQL, Extend
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