Workday Engineer

When you join Sunrise Senior Living, you will be able to use your unique skills to empower residents to live longer, healthier, and happier lives. Not only will you build meaningful relationships with residents, their families, and team members alike, you will also gain joy in serving others and deep fulfillment in your work. Explore how you can follow your passions and shed light on meaningful ways to serve, grow, and shine together.

Sunrise Senior Living was again certified as a Great Place to Work by Activated Insights. This is the 8th time Sunrise has received this top culture and workplace designation, highlighting the special place Sunrise is to be a part of.

The Workday Engineer serves as a technical expert for Payroll (U.S. and CA), Absence and Time Tracking. The role is responsible for designing, configuring and optimizing the Workday platform while ensuring payroll accuracy, compliance and efficient workforce processes. The position partners with Human Resources (HR), Payroll, Finance, Operations and Information Technology (IT) to translate requirements into scalable Workday solutions.

Essential Duties

As a part of the Sunrise team, supporting our Mission, Principles of Service and Core Values is a fundamental part of this job. Our foundational belief is the sacred value of human life. The unique responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to the essential functions listed as follows:

Workday Payroll US and Canada

• Configure and support Payroll, including earnings, deductions, pay component related calculations, taxes, balances and payroll processing rules.

• Manage pay groups, period schedules, run categories, payroll calculations, retro processing, wage attachments, audits and payroll result validation.

• Act as subject matter expert (SME) and escalation point for payroll issues, compliance, and production troubleshooting.

• Manage quarterly/year-end activities and tax configuration reviews.

Time Tracking and Absence

• Configure Time Tracking: time entry codes, time calculations, schedules, meal/rest rules, validations and overtime/compliance rules.

• Configure Absence: plans, accruals, time off, eligibility, carryover rules and balance calculations.

• Ensure policies comply with organizational, state/provincial and federal regulations (e.g., FMLA, sick leave, overtime).

• Troubleshoot issues related to time entry, accruals, balances and schedules.

Business Processes and Operations

• Design and maintain Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking business processes with routing, conditions, validations and security.

• Build and maintain data quality audits, exception handling workflows and operational monitoring.

• Provide functional operations support for payroll runs, retro events, schedule changes and time/absence processing cycles.

Integrations and Data Loads

• Build and maintain inbound/outbound Enterprise Interface Builder (EIBs) for mass updates (time corrections, retro loads, balance loads and job changes).

• Partner with integration developers on Studio, Cloud Connect and vendor interfaces (tax agencies, benefit providers, payroll vendors and time devices).

• Troubleshoot integration errors impacting payroll, time or absence.

Cross-Functional Design and Collaboration

• Gather requirements with Payroll, HR, Benefits, Finance and IT and convert them into scalable Workday configurations.

• Recommend best practices to improve compliance, minimize risk and streamline processes.

• Participate in design reviews, regression assessments and configuration governance.

Testing, Documentation and Release Management

• Lead testing activities: scenario creation, execution support and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) coordination.

• Analyze Workday release notes; identify relevant changes for Payroll, Absence and Time Tracking and propose adoption.

• Document configuration decisions, workflows, year-end processes, payroll calendars and operational procedures.

Training and Enablement

• Provide knowledge