HRIS Integration Engineer

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Join MSF OCG as a HRIS Integration Engineer!

We are looking for passionate candidates ready to contribute to our humanitarian mission.

Below, you will find the job details and the qualifications we are looking for.

Inclusivity and Diversity at MSF

Do your qualifications and experience not exactly match all requirements of the job?

At MSF OCG, we are committed to an inclusive culture that supports and amplifies the diverse voices of our staff members. We strive to create workplaces where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives, ideas and experiences work together to advance MSF's social mission and create better outcomes for our patients and the communities we work with.

We understand that some people may hesitate to apply for employment if they don't meet all listed job requirements. Research shows that this is especially true for women. If you believe your profile is a good match for this position, we invite you to apply even if you don’t fulfill every listed qualification.

We encourage applications from individuals of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, ethnicity, background, religions, beliefs, ability status, and all other diversity characteristics.

MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of discrimination or harassment, including sexual harassment. All selected candidates will undergo reference checks.

Context & mission

Médecins Sans Frontières is an independent, international medical and humanitarian organization that provides care to people in need, people affected by natural or man-made disasters, and victims of armed conflict, without discrimination and without regard to race, religion, creed or political affiliation (MSF Charter).

MSF, including MSF Operational Center Geneva (OCG), has grown significantly over the last 10 years and until now the HR department has managed that expansion with ad-hoc tools and methods.

To better support the ongoing demands and better serve our global workforce, OCG has launched a transformative HR initiative with one critical pillar being the introduction of an HR Information System (HRIS).

Joining a dynamic team of HR professionals, the HRIS Integration Engineer will develop the system integrations between HR Applications, in particular from and to Workday, our new HR solution.

In a Microsoft technical environment (Azure, Fabrics, Master Data Services), they will engineer system integrations based on the recommended architecture, solution design and technical specifications. The incumbent will collaborate with our IT Solution Architect, IT Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Testing team and our Workday consultants to produce robust solutions that enable data sharing between HRIS component, Integration Layer and peripheral systems. The Integration Engineer will report to the IT Project Manager.

At MSF you will be part of a diverse and inclusive team dedicated to making a meaningful impact in the world. You will have the opportunity to work on exciting projects, collaborate with passionate colleagues, and contribute to positive change on a global scale.

Tasks & Responsibilities

As the HRIS Integration Engineer, your role is pivotal in optimizing our human resources information systems and end-to-end services to support the delivery of HRIS solutions encompassing the deployment of a new HR solution (Workday) loaded with HR data (current and historical), inbound and outbound integrations.

You will analyze business requirements and ensure that implemented integrations (services and workflows) are effectively integrated into current HR technology ecosystem. You will ensure that the technology solutions delivered are aligned to enterprise strategies and adhere to target reference architectures by applying sound principles & best practices.

Main responsibilities of HRIS Integration Engineer are the following:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and integration requirements and priorities
• Elaborate and follow integration engineering design guidelines and standards in collaboration with MSF IT team and HRIS solution architect.
• Develop and unit test integration of data across the relevant systems to ensure data consistency and accuracy, timeliness of the integration.
• Develop and maintain deployment pipelines.
• Responsible for supporting and maintaining HRIS Cloud-native Integration platform (based on Microsoft technology stack) and integrated components on test and production environments.
• Create documentation for hand-over to operational technical teams.
• Cultivate collaborative relationships with our IT Solution Architect, IT Business Analysts, Data Team, IT Department and our Workday consultants.
• Engage with HRIS solution architects and MSF Infrastructure Architect for design collaboration and review.
• Support and participate to the program’s testing activities (technical run-through of solutions, explain expected behavior of the technical solution, fixing of bugs etc)
• Raise data quality issue with the team for prioritization and resolution in the context of system integration, recognize patterns and make recommendations to the team.
• Communicate on progress of delivery, risks, blockers with the IT Project Manager and the technical team for resolution and guidance.

Your profile

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar relevant degree
• Relevant Microsoft Certifications

Experience

• 5-10+ years of previous working experience as an Integration Engineer
• Proven track record in system integration and analysis
• Working experience and knowledge of Microsoft Cloud-native Integration and Data platforms (Azure, Azure Data Factory, API Management, Fabrics, Master Data Services, Data Verse etc). Ideally, Power Automate as well.
• Has contributed to an end-to-end vision for the system integrations across various applications across a given landscape (ideally HR data integrated with Active Directory, payroll, and other consumers of HR data) as part of a transformation program.
• Nice to have: knowledge of HR applications.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of MSF Switzerland. Fluency in both English and French is required for this position (oral and written).

Skills/ Technical competencies

• HRIS platforms
• Microsoft Data and Integration technologies
• Data warehousing
• ETL Processes
• Event-driven integration
• API
• Several implementations of Microsoft based integration.
• Good SOA architecture understanding. Hands-on experience designing and developing inbound and outbound integration interfaces with API Web services (REST and SOAP service development skills)
• Websphere ESB, Microsoft Biztalk will be considered a plus.
• Knowledge and experience of XML related technologies (XML, XSD, XPATH, XSLT)
• Knowledge and experience with CI/CD processes and tools
• Knowledge of delivery and information management tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, Diagramming, SharePoint)
• Experience with event-driven Architecture and Microservices will be considered a plus.

Personal Abilities/Qualities

• Strong problem solving and communication skills.
• Ability to work within cross-functional teams on strategic projects.
• Team player.
• Ability to link functional requirements with data.
• Strong communication skills and active collaboration with the team.
• Ability to collaborate with IT, business and data analysts, Data protection officers to ensure compliance with policies and guidelines.

Terms of employment

• Full-time position 100% (40h/week)
• Fixed-term contract, 14 months.
• Working place: Geneva, Switzerland
• Ideal start date: May 2025
• Gross monthly salary (for 100%): from CHF 7’870.- to CHF 9’029.- (paid in 12 instalments; salary commensurate with equivalent experience and internal salary grid).
• Paid vacation: 25 days per year, prorate temporis, plus any Swiss public holidays falling within the contract period.
• Pension plan: pension contribution covered 3/4 by MSF, 1/4 by staff member.
• Relocation package if moving from a different country to Switzerland.

How to apply

Candidates are invited to submit their application exclusively through our recruitment platform, following these guidelines:

• CV (maximum 2 pages)
• Cover letter (maximum 1 page)
• Documents must be submitted in either English or French.

The application deadline is February 23rd, 2025.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier if we receive a sufficient number of quality applications.

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All applications will be treated confidentially.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Please note that we do not wish to use the services of recruitment or placement agencies.