Platform Engineer III (Workday)

Role: Platform Engineer III (Workday)

You will support and maintain Aflac’s Workday-based platform and related integrations, ensuring reliable performance, security, and successful deployments.

Work Model / Location

• Hybrid: If you live within 50 miles of the Aflac offices in Columbus, GA or Columbia, SC, you must work in the office at least 60% of the time.
• Remote: If you live more than 50 miles away, you work from home within the continental US. You may be asked to visit the office occasionally for business needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide support for architectural design and maintenance of the platform environment (COTS, SaaS, ERP) with distributed components.
• Ensure compliance with organizational policies, procedures, and security standards (implementation, auditing, and adherence).
• Plan and execute software upgrades, patching, and plugin installations.
• Monitor performance, resolve problems, and manage component capacity issues.
• Design, test, develop, configure, and maintain integrations to platform applications.
• Follow platform security and coding standards for resilience, data, and security.
• Review business requirements and deliver solutions via configuration, coding, debugging, and testing.
• Work with cross-functional teams to communicate status and technical proposals.
• Deploy and configure platform applications tailored to company needs.

Requirements

• Extensive software development experience and modern programming languages.
• Workday configuration experience.
• Workday Leave Management configuration experience.
• Workday consulting background.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 4+ years of experience in release practices and environments (or equivalent).

Nice to Have

• Workday Wellness implementation experience (big plus).
• ADP and UKG experience (big plus).
• Workday certified (implied/desired by posting).
• Strong Scrum background and advanced DevOps methodologies.
• Ability to mentor and lead junior developers.
• Master’s degree in a related field.