Associate Software Engineer

INDUSTRY BACKGROUND: Developer --------------- TEAM DYNAMIC: --------------- ROLE/RESPONSIBILITIES: • Integration Ownership: Design, build, and maintain Workday integrations (EIB, Studio, Core Connectors) and associated ETL pipelines to move data between Workday, payroll systems, and vendor apps. • Act as Application Team Lead: Must demonstrate ownership of governance and controls for assigned applications; this includes timely certificate renewals, remediation of vulnerabilities, and responding to internal and external audits. • (nice to have) Mainframe Execution: Author and maintain JCL to schedule and run jobs on the mainframe; monitor execution, handle failures, and optimize performance. • Data Pipelines & Transmissions: Implement secure file transmissions (SFTP/HTTPS/AS2), data validations, and reconciliation; manage schemas, mappings, and transformations. • Monitoring & Reliability: Use tools like Dynatrace and BigPanda to detect anomalies, reduce MTTR, and drive incident prevention through observability and automation. • Access & Security: Partner with PNC Enterprise security and access management teams to ensure data security and privacy controls for all assigned applications. • SDLC & Agile Delivery: Work in Agile (Scrum/Kanban), manage work in Jira, and coordinate incident/change management in ServiceNow. • Technical Leadership: Troubleshoot complex production issues, conduct root-cause analysis, mentor peers, and contribute to engineering standards. • Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with technology teams, vendors, and business partners to prioritize, plan, and deliver integrations and enhancements. • --------------- MUST HAVE SKILLS: 1. Experience with software engineering or integration engineering, with hands-on ownership of production integrations and ETL processes 2. Strong experience with Workday integrations (Workday Web Services and Report Writer, EIB, Studio, Core Connectors), troubleshooting, and coding within the Workday ecosystem 3. Proficient in ETL design and implementation; data modeling, mapping, validation, and reconciliation 4. XSLT 5. Experience with Dynatrace and/or BigPanda, alerting, dashboards, SLIs/SLOs, and incident response 6. Working knowledge of access management, data security, encryption, and secure file transfers 7. Jira 8. ServiceNow 9. Agile --------------- FLEX SKILLS: 1. Workday Certifications (e.g., Workday Studio, Integration Specialist) 2. Oracle (SQL, performance tuning) for downstream HR/Payroll data stores 3. Experience with vendor HR systems (benefits, payroll, timekeeping) and HR data standards 4. Mainframe & JCL 5. REST 6. SOAP APIs --------------- SOFT SKILLS: • Written and verbal communication