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Max ease. Full speed.\nWhether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.\nAs part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.\nFor everyone, everywhere.\nMore about our mission and what we offer.\n As a Senior People Technology Engineer (Workday Time & Absence), you will act as the principal technical product partner and Domain SME for our global absence and time-tracking architecture. You will possess the autonomy to own the domain strategy and navigate highly complex legislative environments across the EMEA region and beyond. This is an urgent, high-impact role: you will lead the immediate remediation of legacy setup issues, ensure SOX compliance, and unblock our global expansion.\nBeyond immediate project delivery, you will play a key role in our long-term vision: evolving into a dedicated, regionally aligned People Operations (POps) adjacent product team. You will drive continuous process optimizations, regional feature enablement, and holistic Workday support, ensuring our T&A ecosystem is scalable, secure, and legally compliant.\nHow we work:\nWe apply engineering principles to People Tech. You’ll be part of a team that values documentation, peer reviews, and scalable architecture. We empower teams to make decisions and take ownership. We value clear outcomes, strong cross-functional partnerships and measurable impact.\nWhat you will be working on:\nFunctional Configuration & Complex Architecture: Lead the hands-on architectural design and configuration of Workday Time Tracking and Absence Management. Build complex, highly customized statutory leave plans, time entry validations, and holiday logic for our global workforce.\nDomain Ownership & SOX Compliance: Take end-to-end responsibility for the technical health, reliability, and compliance of the T&A domain. Ensure all setups meet strict SOX compliance, financial audit requirements, and local labor laws, actively managing risk and technical debt.\n Strategic Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a true product partner to senior regional People Operations leaders (primarily EMEA). Translate complex legal requirements into scalable Workday functionality and advise stakeholders on system capabilities and best practices.\nOperational Excellence: Oversee the resolution of complex technical escalations. Identify root causes in our existing absence setup and architect long-term, scalable fixes rather than temporary patches.\n Technical Roadmap & Mentorship: Define the long-term technical roadmap for T&A in alignment with Wise’s global expansion plans. Act as a mentor and escalation point for standard contributors (IC2s) within the regional operational model.\n Deep Domain Expertise: Extensive, senior-level experience in Workday Time Tracking and Absence Management configuration, including building complex, multi-country statutory leave plans and time-entry rules from scratch.\nRisk & Compliance Acumen: Proven experience managing SOX controls, internal audits, and stringent legislative changes within an HRIS environment.\nAutonomy & Product Mindset: You are capable of owning a domain strategy independently, making high-level architectural decisions, and acting as a peer to senior business leaders.\nProblem-Solving Mindset: You are analytically minded-capable of translating convoluted legal jargon and local operational nuances intoclean, effective system logic.\nEngineering Values: An egoless approach to work, a deep focus on data security/confidentiality, and a commitment to high-quality testing and documentation.\nNice to Have:\nWorkday Core HCM, Time Tracking, or Absence Management certifications.\nExperience in broader Workday modules (e.g., Payroll integrations, Compensation) to support our long-term shift to a holistic POps product team model.\nExperience implementing Workday for new country launches in a hyper-growth environment.\nEligibility Requirements:\nYou're placed in Tallinn, Estonia.\nSounds like the next step for you? Apply latest by 24th of October EOD by submitting your CV in English, and answering application questions.\n For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders - without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.\nWe're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.\nInclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.\nIf you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.\nKeep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4932,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Money Transfer & Remittances","Currency Exchange & FX Payments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-09T12:08:49Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-24T23:29:34Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":null,"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":95232,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-senior-people-technology-engineer-workday-time-absence","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-senior-people-technology-engineer-workday-time-absence.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T22:11:35Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":13763,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3856},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3856"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fwise-senior-people-technology-engineer-workday-time-absence"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fwise-senior-people-technology-engineer-workday-time-absence"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fwise-senior-people-technology-engineer-workday-time-absence"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/wise-senior-people-technology-engineer-workday-time-absence\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fwise-senior-people-technology-engineer-workday-time-absence"}]}