Johns Hopkins Sightline: Unleash Your Impact

The Johns Hopkins Sightline Business Modernization Project is more than just a job - it's a mission. We're tearing down walls to unleash the full potential of our people. Baltimore, ranked a top 2024 destination by the New York Times, is your backdrop as you join a dynamic and entrepreneurial team to reimagine the way Johns Hopkins works. We're not just simplifying processes and transforming technology - we're empowering people to focus on what matters most: research, teaching, patient care and community impact.

Does this sound like you?

• Thrive in fast-paced environments with daily new challenges and opportunities.
• Are passionate about simplifying complex systems to change people?s lives.
• Believe in transformation that empowers, not hinders, the front-line people.
• Have experience in process improvement, technology implementation, or project management.
• Enjoy analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Communicate clearly with a team.
• Possess a desire to grow and learn.

Joining Sightline means you?ll,

• Work with cutting-edge technology.
• Join a collaborative team of experts in higher education and healthcare.
• Build new skills with a team that encourages creativity, innovation, and personal growth.
• Gain valuable experience and expertise in process improvement, technology implementation, and change management.
• Enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package that includes health insurance, retirement savings plans, telework options, and generous paid time off.

Become an architect of change and help shape the future of Johns Hopkins University and Medicine alongside a passionate team in Baltimore's vibrant hub.

Sightline is seeking a Sightline Software Engineer who is responsible for new development, enhancements, maintenance, and support development activities within the Enterprise Business Solutions environments. SAP systems and modules include FIORI, ECC (FICO, HCM, MM, WM, IM, GM, FM, and security), SRM, PO, Security, and other ancillary systems including AutoSys, Enterprise Portal, Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC), Business Warehouse (BW) and Business Objects (BOBJ) and Business Intelligence (BI). Workday systems and modules include multiple Finance modules (including Supply Chain), and a suite of Human Capital Management (HCM) modules and development systems such as Workday Extend. Work either as sole or part of overall development team. Responsible for 24x7 call support as part of a standard rotation with other team members. Stay updated with the latest cloud solutions, features and best practices.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Position?s Roles & Interactions

• Collaborates with other EBS team?s business analysts, JH IT groups and both university and health systems business users in developing new solutions, enhancements, maintenance, and break/fix support activities.
• Works with minimal supervision and direction.

Specific Systems, Applications, Projects 

• SAP?s suite of applications as well as Workday?s suite of applications will be the focus of this position.
• Integrations, conversions, and reports within the EBS (SAP) and Sightline (Workday) programs are specific development objectives related to the success of these programs.

Scale/Size of Area, Project and/or System Supported

• Works in a highly complex 70+ server environment supporting Johns Hopkins Enterprise Employee Resource Planning (ERP) solutions.
• Workday software is an integrated development solution incorporating JH?s key business functions of Human Resources (Payroll, Benefits), Materials Management (Purchasing, and Inventory Management), Grants/Funds Management, Finance and Accounting.
• The Workday system will support over 60,000 users with the HCM module through payroll and benefits. Workday will interface to over 450+ other internal and external systems including student services, banks, benefit providers, clinical applications, and e-commerce hubs to support the daily functions of the university and health system organizations.

The Workday solution is comprised of following systems,

Human Capital Management (HCM)

• Core HCM
• Recruiting
• Talent Management
• Compensation Management
• Absence Management
• Time Tracking
• Benefits Administration
• Payroll
• Workforce Planning and Analytics

Financial Management

• Core Financials
• Revenue Management
• Expense Management
• Procurement
• Inventory Management
• Project
• Grant Management
• Audit and Internal Controls

Planning (Adaptive Planning)

• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Workforce Planning
• Operational Planning
• Analytics and Reporting
• Workday Prism Analytics
• People Analytics
• Benchmarking

Extend (Platform)

• Workday Extend
• The system is comprised of a multi-tier architecture (Development, Quality, Production plus tenants to support Payroll testing, Extend development, and other implementation/support-focused environments).
• The systems and job complexities are driven by the fact that the university and health systems operate as separate business entities with different policies, processes, and authorizations. Workday will be used by all schools and areas of the university and health system.

On Call Requirements

• Responsible for 24x7 on-call support as part of a standard rotation with other team members in a primary support.
• On-call as needed in secondary support capacity.

Special Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Requirements gathering and analysis.

• Process modeling.

• Web based design and development skills: HTML5, Java, JavaScript, or other web technologies.

• Troubleshooting and problem resolution.

• Performance analysis and tuning.

• Proficiency in Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, and other Workday integration tools.

• Experience with web services (REST, SOAP, JSON), API and XML/XSLT.

• Two years? experience in a Workday Integration Development role.

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Five years related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

• Knowledge of best practices for and experience with data conversions, system integrations, and information security requirements for ERP systems.
• Experience in mobile application development, particularly with Workday mobile solutions, is highly desirable.
• Understanding of SAP Process Orchestration Integration and Cloud Platform Integration.
• Experience with the full life cycle of software development projects (analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance).
• Experience developing architecture diagrams and roadmaps.
• Workday certification in Integration or related areas.
• Understanding of data privacy regulations and compliance.
• Exposure to enterprise architecture standards and modeling techniques.
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) in a cloud-based infrastructure.

Classified Title: Software Engineer 
Job Posting Title (Working Title): Sightline Software Engineer   
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PE  
Starting Salary Range: $73,300 - $128,300 Annually (Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: Mon-Fri 8:30am-5:00pm 
Exempt Status: Exempt 
Location: Remote 
Department name: Sightline  
Personnel area: University Administration 

About Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University remains committed to its founding principle, that education for all students should be grounded in exploration and discovery. Hopkins students are challenged not just to learn but also to advance learning itself. Critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and entrepreneurship are all encouraged and nourished in this unique educational environment. After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Faculty members and their research colleagues at the university's Applied Physics Laboratory have each year since 1979 won Johns Hopkins more federal research and development funding than any other university. The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Education and the Carey Business School are based at the Homewood campus in northern Baltimore. The schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing share a campus in east Baltimore with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Institute, a leading professional school of music, is located on Mount Vernon Place in downtown Bal...timore. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is located in Washington's Dupont Circle area.

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