Sr Software Engineer HCM Applications

  - Type: Contract-to-hire (intent to convert high performer to FTE within 6 months)
  - Location: Remote during the contract period. Upon FTE conversion, the employee will follow our hybrid policy (3 days/week in office) and must be located within commuting distance of Bellevue, WA; Madison, NJ; NYC (Union Square); or Boston (Back Bay),
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. ● Experience building operational resiliency and reducing single points of failure through cross-training, documentation, knowledge transfer, succession planning, and primary/secondary ownership models. ● Ability to serve as a secondary technical and leadership escalation point, providing continuity and decision-making coverage when the HCM Integration Manager is unavailable. ● Strong understanding of data security, privacy, access controls, and handling of sensitive employee information. ● Experience partnering with HR/HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Finance, Security, Enterprise Technology, and external vendors on complex cross-functional initiatives. ● Strong technical judgment with the ability to evaluate architecture, challenge technical decisions constructively, identify risks, and guide engineers toward scalable and maintainable solutions. ● Excellent organizational and prioritization skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and production priorities. ● Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts, risks, and recommendations effectively across technical and business audiences. ● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems ● Experience providing technical leadership for a large portfolio of HCM integrations across multiple vendors and business functions. ● Experience supporting HCM environments through major implementations, migrations, transformations, or platform modernization is a plus ● Experience working with geographically distributed teams, including onshore and offshore engineers. ● Experience operating in a SOX-controlled or similarly regulated enterprise environment. ● Experience establishing on-call rotations, production-support models, engineering SLAs/SLOs, monitoring, and escalation frameworks. ● Demonstrated ability to identify key-person dependencies and systematically establish technical and leadership redundancy. ● Experience working closely with engineering management in a complementary technical leadership model with clear division of responsibilities. ● Demonstrated experience serving as a trusted senior individual contributor and technical leader, with the ability to provide technical continuity, independently make technical decisions when needed, and systematically reduce key-person and single-point-of-failure risk across critical systems and engineering functions. ● Experience using jira for SDLC, backlog management, work planning, and reporting. Participation is sprint ceremonies including grooming.