Applications Administrator - Workday

Description

Act as owner and primary administrator of assigned application(s).
Provide application and system support to all employees for assigned application(s).
Troubleshoot issues, providing expert level support. Resolve issues or identify escalation to Systems team or vendor. Own issue until resolved.
Architect the application(s) to meet business needs. Establish integration with other applications.
Establish best practices for administering and securing application(s).
Provide application performance monitoring, evaluation and optimization.
Propose and implement/lead job automation using scripts and other tools.
Implement solutions to meet or improve specific customer or business needs.
Research, evaluate and provide guidance in the selection of 3rd party applications.
Analyze, configure, document, implement and support 3rd party applications.
Analyze application incidents to identify root cause. Work closely with vendors product support team to implement solutions.
Analyze existing processes to identify inefficiency and opportunities for improvement. Implement or direct the implementation of such process improvements.
Work with stakeholders to establish key metrics, KPIs and SLAs that are measurable and sustainable.
Ensure successful installation and validation of vendorprovided upgrades and patches.
Monitor license usage and budgeting for licensing costs. Provide metrics on anticipated needs during budget cycle and submit procurement requests when additional licenses are required. Process change requests for modifications to the application configuration.
Maintain application road map and work with Manager, Applications Administration to set priorities.
Provide timely and accurate status reporting.
Manage projects to build new functionality, workflows, processes, and/or reporting in the application including requirements gathering, configuration, testing, user documentation and training.
Develop and maintain all user documentation related to assigned application(s), including policies and procedures.
Drive user adoption across the organization through user training and best practices.
Maintain relationship with vendor to resolve application issues and ensure that Early Warnings needs for new functionality are considered in future releases.
Support the companys commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.