Workday Platform Engineer

As a Workday Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, configuring, and optimizing our Workday ecosystem to support critical HR, Finance, and business operations. This is an opportunity to work on innovative Workday solutions, integrations, and platform enhancements that directly improve employee and organizational experiences. Your contributions will help drive operational excellence, data integrity, security, and process automation across the enterprise. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, influence platform strategy, and gain exposure to complex enterprise Workday capabilities while advancing your technical and professional growth.

Position Responsibilities:

• •Design, configure, maintain, and enhance Workday platform solutions, including business processes, security, integrations, and reporting.
• •Partner with HR, Finance, Payroll, and Technology stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver scalable Workday solutions.
• •Develop, test, deploy, and support Workday integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Extend, Orchestration and web services.
• •Troubleshoot platform issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement sustainable solutions to improve system performance and reliability.
• •Support Workday releases, platform governance, security compliance, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Qualifications:

• •5+ years of experience supporting enterprise HRIS platforms, including at least 5 years of hands-on Workday experience.
• •5+ years of experience developing and supporting Workday integrations, reports, calculated fields, and business processes.
• •Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field.
• •Workday certification(s) in relevant functional or technical areas are considered an asset.

Preferred Qualifications:

• •Experience with Workday Extend and Workday Orchestrate.
• •Strong knowledge of Workday security architecture and role-based access controls.
• •Experience supporting multiple Workday modules such as HCM, Recruiting, Talent, Payroll.
• •Knowledge of integration technologies, including REST/SOAP APIs, XML, XSLT, and middleware platforms.
• •Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

When you join our team:

• •We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
• •We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
• •As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

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The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

About Manulife and John Hancock

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html .

Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact hr@manulife.com .

Referenced Salary Location

Toronto, Ontario

Working Arrangement

Hybrid

Salary range is expected to be between

$86,100.00 CAD - $136,100.00 CAD

Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance. The actual salary will vary depending on local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training. If you are applying for this role outside of the primary location, please contact hr@manulife.com for the salary range for your location.

Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans. We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources. Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence. If you are applying for this role in the U.S., please contact hr@manulife.com for more information about U.S.-specific paid time off provisions.

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