Management, Cross-departmental Communication and Collaboration. On top, AI experience would be very beneficial since the PM would collaborate with AI engineers and data scientists to design, test, and refine AI prompts. Experience, Skills & Qualifications: Qualifications: Proven experience in Project Managing digital, AI, or interactive technology projects Strong project management skills (Agile/Scrum or similar methodologies). Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities. Analytical mindset with a focus on sustainable and user-centric innovation.
The HRIS Integration Specialist will serve as owner of a variety of integrations, reports and dashboards. The role holder will be responsible for the design, development, configuration, testing and support of Workday Integrations. Continuous support and troubleshooting of integrations will be required to ensure that updates and system changes are applied as needed, as well as leading advanced and cross-functional report writing responsibilities. This position will collaborate with the HRIS team and functional sponsors to make recommendations for process improvement and best practices. The role will involve strong partnerships with multiple vendor technical contacts and downstream system owners. Responsibilities: Subject matter expert with all Workday integration technologies. Demonstrate in-depth Workday Core HR, Recruiting, Absence, Talent, Learning, Compensation knowledge. Help with Workday HCM integration work including design, development and testing based on a solid understanding of the Workday Business Object Model. Assist with all aspects of data integrations/interfaces with various vendors and other internal systems; Manage and own end-to-end testing with various vendors, Workday-partner, internal system owners. Responsible for developing integrations focused on data quality and integrity, which can scale based on the growing needs of the organization. Extract data using Workday using custom reports, employing calculated fields and transformations. Assist with Workday configuration and Business Process Framework, if needed Follows Change Management Processes and Policies. Understand business concepts and processes to effectively support the business team with mediating new and existing business and technical challenges. Translate user requirements into system specifications leveraging the existing IT infrastructure (software engineering and architecture). Drive ongoing enhancements to the Workday platform and stay abreast of new enhancements in each Workday release by collaborating with the HR team as to enablement of new functionality. Maintain and ensure the ongoing operational excellence of the HR systems and promote continuous process improvement practices which drive automation, efficiency and exceptional service delivery. Collaborate with the Technical teams including IT to build, test and deploy the integrations, reports, workflows, dashboards and Security. Responsible to maintain awareness of current trends in HR technology and understand statutory and regulatory requirements with HR and Payroll. Engage with the Workday community to remain informed of system enhancements, foundational operation and execution of data management processes. Experience, Skills & Qualifications Proven experience of Workday Integration development and maintenance experience. Broad functional and technical knowledge of HR, Payroll and Finance processes and systems. Advanced analytical skills; ability to lead, develop, conduct, test and document the operation of the HR systems. Strong leadership skills in coaching, motivating and developing highly skilled talent. Exceptional presentation skills with excellent verbal and written communication skills, possessing the ability to motivate team members to perform the tasks Knowledge and understanding of complex HR operations to maintain the credibility of HR systems. Strong interpersonal skills necessary to engage effectively at all levels for effecting timely progress. Innovative problem solver with excellent critical thinking skills. Self-starter, able to drive work forward within an agile environment. Track record of holding self and others accountable to meet deadlines and achieve business goals.
Design, implement, test and maintain scalable and efficient ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest and transform large datasets from diverse sources. Architect, build, test and optimize data warehouses and data lakes, focusing on data consistency, performance, and best practices for analytics. Implement data quality checks, validation rules, and monitoring to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and security. Contribute to data governance initiatives. Continuously monitor and enhance database and query performance, identifying opportunities to streamline and improve data retrieval times. Define and design frameworks for monitoring data quality and data pipelines Monitor Google BigQuery consumption. Evaluate, select, and integrate new tools and technologies to enhance data capabilities. Automate manual processes to improve efficiency and accuracy. Mentor junior engineers, sharing best practices in data engineering and analysis, and helping to build a culture of technical excellence within the team. Proactively lead streams of data engineering work, collaborating with stakeholders and other non-engineering roles to come up with creative solut ions to the problems your team is presented with. Work with both data producers and consumers to optimise existing data products and the data within them to meet evolving business needs. Work collaboratively with other engineers, u sing t echniques like pair and ensemble programming, to foster collective ownership and help upskill, reskill and learn from other team members. Help guide technology choices, adopting company-standard tech stacks by default while responsibly investig ating alternative tools and services and looking for opportunities to innovate. Skills & experience: Technologies you will be working with: SQL, Python, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Google BigQuery Data pipeline tools such as Apache Airflow and DBT Data modeling concepts, including dimensional and star schema design Data visualization tools like Looker Essential: Several years of experience in D ata / Software eng ineering on a cloud platform. An understanding of data and distributed systems concepts. Several years of experience working with data from large ERP systems. Knowledge of data quality concepts and experienc e using too ls to identify data quality problems and come up w ith strategies to tackle them. Experience working with iterative software development principles: Continuous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD) Automated testing at different levels Collaborative development techniques like pair and ensemble programming Experience owning software systems and/or data pipelines end-to-end, having full responsibility for operating them in production a nd responding to problems that arise. The ability to work with stakeholders and other non-technical roles to translate business requirements into technical work , and conversely to articulate necessary technical work to the same people for prioritisation. High competence in SQL and deep experience of at least one programming language e.g. Python, Java Desirable: Experience with decentralised Data Mesh and Data Product architecture principles. Experience building and testing data pipelines with DBT Understanding and experience of User-Centric Design principles What you will be doing: 1 month: Actively contributing to the codebase in collaboration with other engineers and deploying changes into production Familiarising yourself with our tech stack and processes Starting to understand the data landscape in and around your team Getting to know the various stakeholders and their general requirements Collaborating effectively with each discipline on the team Participating in technical discussions and sharing ideas 3 months: Gaining an understanding of the team s context within the wider organisation Leading a stream of work, working with both engineers and stakeholders Triaging support queries and diagnosing issues in live data pipelines Setting the technical direction of the work done by the team Holding discussions w ithin the engine ering team in order to improve product architecture and code quality Ensuring that data is stored securely and in compliance with GDPR 6 months: Take ownership of key projects and drive initiatives to enhance data capabilities . Switching context between multiple streams of work, providing guidance to both developers and stakeholders Fostering a culture of continuous feedback, giving and rece iving constructive feedback within your team , and proactively improving ways of working Mentoring others in the principles of data engineering and best practices and looking for opportunities to help other engineers on the team grow Arbitrating disagreements within the team and not avoiding difficult conversations Gauging the complexity and scope of a piece of work, breaking it into smaller pieces when appropriate with a focus on iteratively delivering value to end users
Senior UX Designer (RE) Location: Lisbon, Portugal We are seeking a Senior UX Designer to join our global UXD practice at Springer Nature and design within the Funder & Institutional Experience which sits within a substantial programme of work that publishes the latest scientific research to the world. This challenging opportunity would appeal to a seasoned UX designer that is interested in addressing complex, difficult problems with clear, user-centred experience designs. The role is based in Lisbon (Portugal) and you ll be collaborating with colleagues there, as well as Berlin (Germany), London (UK), Pune (India) and other locations globally. Some travel may be required. About Springer Nature Springer Nature is a global scientific publisher helping to advance science and accelerate solutions to address the world s urgent challenges. With origins as far back as 1842 (Springer) and 1867 (Nature), content has been published from multiple nobel prize winners including Darwin and Einstein. Examples of published research include the first physical sequencing of the human genome to COVID-19 studies, making over 70k articles and books free to access. Some facts: By 2025, there were 1.8 million research submissions with 420,000 articles published per year. There are over 5 million articles in more than 3,000 scientific journals and 3 million chapters in more than 190,000 books. Springer Nature is a leading publisher of Sustainable Development Goals content with more than 1 million articles and supports the SDGs in how we work - Springer Nature has been carbon neutral since 2020. Visit sndigital.springernature.com to learn more about who we are and what we do. About you To be successful in this role you will need to have the following: Multi-year experience of UX Design in a senior capacity. Accomplished critical thinking, analysis, sound decision-making and an outcomes driven mindset Experience deploying applicable UX design and research methods and techniques. Experience working with stakeholders and non-designers and have an empathetic, articulate and open communication style. Experience running UX research independently, or in a leading role as part of a team. Great user empathy and focus on creating value for them. Preference to working in a collaborative (remote and in-person) team, where there is collective ownership of the product. Good time management skills enabling you to collaborate with multiple teams on a variety of initiatives. Comfortable getting involved with every stage of the UX lifecycle. Awareness of your strengths and ability to recognise opportunities to learn and improve. What you ll be doing This role is a terrific opportunity for friendly, curious people who want to get involved in our work and develop our culture and help make Springer Nature Digital a place where people and ideas can thrive. Responsibilities include: Representing UX and championing users as part of a team that is responsible for institutions and funding within the payments and rights stage of the scientific publishing process. Conduct discovery and analysis initiatives in collaboration with Product and other disciplines. Identify pain points and opportunities and drive design conversations to address them. Collaborate with stakeholders and team members and facilitate discussions to ensure focus remains on users Create relevant UX deliverables including screen flows and wireframes, as well as designs for data visualisation Within 3 months Get settled: Get to know Springer Nature as a business and the groups within it. Understand the UX research that has been done and the context/history of it. Become familiar with products/tools that the teams have been working on, how they do it and how it s going. Meet the stakeholders from across the business and understand their experience, background and ambitions. Begin to work with your programme lead, colleagues within your immediate team and get to know your UX peers/community. Within 6 months Be involved: Establish design thinking, prioritisation, reviews, alignment and delivery processes, keeping user-centred design as part of the team culture. Ensure that design is informed by UX research. Motivate and involve team members in UX research activities. Share insights within your team, with the wider UX community and beyond. Become an active participant of the UX community and become an example to others. Within 12 months Make a change and see your impact: Know where there are gaps and assumptions in user knowledge. Know the relative risk and potential effort of each that is clearly laid out in a plan for the foreseeable future. Identify impactful opportunities and work with leads to address those opportunities strategically Ensure that strategic work with stakeholders is informed by UX research and design outcomes. Become an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), not just in what we deliver to our users but also in how we work together. #LI-SS2