Senior Workday Platform Engineer - Absence (Workday)

Responsibilities

• Domain Ownership & Platform Leadership (Absence)
• Own the Workday Absence domain globally, including configuration design, system behavior, and ongoing evolution
• Lead the design and implementation of complex absence solutions in partnership with Human Resources partners, ensuring alignment with policy, regulatory requirements, and operational realities, including:
• Absence plans, accrual calculations, and eligibility rules
• Leave of absence processes and event-driven workflows
• Country-specific and policy-driven configurations
• Partner directly with Human Resources to interpret policies, validate requirements, and ensure system configurations accurately reflect intended business outcomes
• Define and implement configuration design patterns that ensure scalability, reusability, and maintainability
• Act as the primary technical authority for absence-related design decisions, guiding trade-offs between business requirements, system constraints, and long-term sustainability
• Ensure alignment of absence configurations with global policies, regulatory requirements, and downstream dependencies (e.g., payroll)
• Solution Design & Delivery Leadership
• Engage with Human Resources partners to clarify requirements, challenge assumptions, and guide toward scalable, platform-aligned solutions
• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex absence-related initiatives, including design, build, testing, and deployment readiness
• Translate complex business rules, policies, and regulatory requirements into structured, scalable system configurations
• Provide technical leadership across workstreams, ensuring consistency and quality of solutions delivered by the team
• Support and guide P3 analysts in solution design and configuration, ensuring alignment with platform standards
• Platform Engineering & Cross-Domain Contribution
• Contribute to broader Workday platform design and configuration across additional domains (e.g., Core HCM, Compensation, Talent, Performance)
• Collaborate with Integration and Data specialists to ensure end-to-end solution integrity
• Participate in platform-level design discussions, influencing architecture, standards, and ways of working
• Ensure absence-related solutions integrate effectively with upstream and downstream systems
• Data, Reporting & Downstream Integrity
• Design and supervise reporting solutions and calculated fields supporting absence and related processes
• Ensure absence data supports HR reporting, compliance, and downstream processes (e.g., payroll and analytics)
• Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across absence configurations and downstream consumers
• Validate and test complex scenarios, including edge cases across regions, policies, and lifecycle events
• Platform Reliability & Continuous Improvement
• Ensure reliability and stability of absence-related processes through proactive issue identification and root cause resolution
• Identify systemic issues and drive structural improvements to platfo

Additional Information

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment? Sony Interactive Entertainment isn't just the Best Place to Play - it's also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we're part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity. Role Overview: The Senior Workday Platform Engineer - Absence (P4) is responsible for owning the design, configuration, and continuous evolution of Workday Absence capabilities as part of SIE's global People Technology platform. This role serves as a senior technical leader within People Technology Services (PTS), with primary ownership of the Absence domain. The role is accountable for ensuring that absence-related solutions are scalable, precise, and aligned with global business requirements, while also contributing to broader Workday platform design and delivery. The role works closely with Human Resources partners to translate policy, regulatory requirements, and business processes into scalable, system-driven solutions. Operating within a globally consistent Agile delivery model, this role balances deep domain expertise with cross-platform contribution. The Senior Engineer partners with Product, Integration, Data, and Architecture colleagues to deliver cohesive, end-to-end solutions and to establish sustainable configuration patterns across the platform. This role is suited for individuals who combine deep expertise in Workday Absence with strong systems thinking, technical leadership, and the ability to influence design decisions across a global platform.

Your Match

How well this role fits your profile.

Company Intel

What employees say

Worked at sonyinteractiveentertainmentglobal? Share your experience