Senior Data Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our team and deliver a fit-for-purpose Workday reporting portfolio, grounded in clearly documented and validated business requirements. The role combines report development with business analysis, adjusted to programme priorities. You will work with business stakeholders, as well as the integration team, to design, build, test and deploy reports, dashboards and analytics that are secure, reusable and compliant with the reporting governance framework.

Key Responsibilities Plan and facilitate requirements workshops, interviews and walkthroughs with business owners and subject-matter experts Translate business questions into structured reporting requirements (purpose, audience, data elements, filters, prompts, frequency, security and distribution) Analyse current-state reports from legacy systems and decide whether to retire, replace, consolidate or rebuild them in Workday Challenge and prioritise requests against business value, data availability and delivered Workday functionality Maintain a requirements inventory and traceability matrix, and obtain formal business sign-off on requirements and delivered reports Design and build Workday reports of all types: Simple, Advanced, Matrix, Composite, Trending and Transposed Develop dashboards, Discovery Boards and worklet-based analytics for managers and executives Create and maintain calculated fields, custom report data sources and prompts, following naming and reuse standards Build reports used as data sources for integrations (e.g. RaaS / Workday web services) in coordination with the integration team Apply Workday domain and business process security so that users see only the data they are authorised to see Optimise report performance and resolve defects Prepare unit test evidence, support SIT and BAT execution and manage report migration across tenants Produce functional and technical design documentation, user guides and a report catalogue Transfer knowledge to report writers and key users, and provide hypercare support after go-live