Sr. Engineer HCM App Integration

Job requirements

The Sr. Engineer– HCM Integrations will partner closely with the HCM Integration Manager as a key technical leader for the team. This role will serve as the manager’s primary technical counterpart, providing technical continuity, architectural oversight, and day-to-day technical leadership across the HCM integration landscape.

Responsibilities

● Act as the principal technical counterpart to the HCM Integration Manager, providing coverage and continuity across technical responsibilities.

● Provide day-to-day technical leadership for integrations supporting HCM and third-party platforms including Fidelity, Shareworks, Aetna, and other benefits, payroll, equity, and enterprise systems.

● Serve as a secondary escalation and decision-making point for critical HCM integration issues, reducing dependency on any single leader or technical resource.

● Build redundancy across critical systems through documentation, cross-training, knowledge transfer, runbooks, and clearly defined primary/secondary ownership.

● Partner with the HCM Integration Manager and business stakeholders on roadmap planning, prioritization, resource allocation, architecture decisions, vendor management, and delivery execution.

● Provide technical oversight across HCM and OIC development, including architecture/design reviews, code quality, testing, deployment practices, monitoring, and production support.

● Mentor and develop engineers and help establish consistent engineering practices across the team.

● Provide leadership coverage during the HCM Integration Manager's absence and ensure continuity of critical business and engineering operations.

● Identify areas of concentrated knowledge or ownership and proactively develop succession and coverage plans.

● Support incident management and ensure critical integrations have appropriate monitoring, escalation paths, recovery procedures, and backup ownership.

Required Qualifications & Experience

● 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise application engineering, HCM technology, integrations, or a closely related technical discipline.

● Demonstrated experience serving as a Lead Engineer, Principal Engineer, or Staff Engineer with responsibility for leading complex technical architecture and guiding engineering best practices.

● Significant hands-on experience with enterprise HCM platforms and HCM integrations, preferably within complex, large-scale environments.

● Strong experience designing, developing, supporting, and troubleshooting integrations between HCM platforms and third-party providers across areas such as benefits, payroll, retirement, equity/stock administration, identity, and employee data management.

● Strong knowledge of enterprise integration technologies and patterns, including REST/SOAP APIs, web services, middleware/iPaaS, SFTP/file-based integrations, batch processing, and event-driven integrations.

● Deep experience with Oracle HCM Cloud, OIC, Oracle HCM APIs, HCM Extracts, HDL/HSDL, and related Oracle integration technologies.

● Solid background in building HCM integration templates (rtf, xslt…) for delivery.

● Strong experience in building fast formulas and value sets.

● Good understanding of HCM security models including users and roles. Ability to build new roles as needed to support the application. Experience in supporting areas of responsibility (AORs).

● Solid background in Visual Builder Studio (VBS) in support of page customizations

● Understanding and support of HCM workflows, to support routing, notifications and approvals.

● Strong understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including solution design, development, code review, testing, deployment, monitoring, production support, and change management.

● Demonstrated experience establishing and improving engineering practices around source control, CI/CD, automated testing, code quality, observability, documentation, and release management.

● Proven experience supporting business-critical production systems, including incident management, root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, escalation management, and implementation of preventive measures.