Applications Consultant

Role Description

Serves as a team leader/senior technical team member in the planning, designing, developing, implementing, and/or supporting complex to moderately complex new or revised processes, systems, or networks. Acts as an acknowledged expert in one or more technical specialties and/or mission critical application systems, and provides leadership in design, development and application integration. Ensures functional and technical designs support customer requirements. Develops an understanding of the Auto Club Group business strategy and competitive environment and translates and implements business strategies into technology solutions. Provides a high degree of technical and/or application expertise and design/programming leadership. Assists Security team in the development of appropriate audit controls and procedures to ensure the integrity and protection of company resources. Develops work plans and estimates projects and ensures that project team(s) and/or plan deliverables remain on schedule and budget.

Key Responsibilities

• Integration Development: Design, build, test, and deploy complex integrations between Workday and third-party systems using Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Core Connectors, and Web Services (REST/SOAP).
• Prism Analytics & Reporting: Develop and maintain data pipelines, datasets, and transformations in Workday Prism Analytics to integrate data from diverse sources and support advanced reporting needs.
• Module Expertise: Have a deep understanding of both Workday HCM (Core HR, Benefits, Payroll, etc.) and Financial Management (Financial Accounting, Procurement, Expenses, Projects) modules.
• Configuration & Customization: Configure Workday business processes, security roles, calculated fields, and custom objects to align with business requirements.
• Reporting & Dashboards: Create and maintain custom, advanced, and matrix reports using Workday Report Writer, and build interactive dashboards and Discovery Boards to deliver key business insights.
• Troubleshooting & Support: Research, analyze, and resolve technical issues within the Workday platform, providing ongoing production support and ensuring data integrity.
• Collaboration: Partner closely with cross-functional HR, Finance, and IT teams to gather requirements, define technical specifications, and ensure successful project delivery.
• System Maintenance: Participate in Workday's semi-annual release cycles, including impact analysis, testing, and deployment of new features and functionalities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or an equivalent level of work experience.
• Experience in designing, developing, implementing, or supporting complex to moderately complex information systems.
• Experience in building or supporting mainframe or distributed systems.
• Experience in identifying, analyzing and resolving complex business/technical problems.
• Experience in technology assessment, recommendations and selection.
• Experience in providing technical consultation/leadership to project teams.
• Experience in staffing, coordinating/leading a large project team or a variety of small project teams.
• Experience in budgeting and expense control.
• Experience in mainframe, distributed, and/or Web-based system design and development.
• Experience in database management systems.
• Experience in PC fundamental software tools.
• Experience in programming languages.
• Experience in prototyping.
• Experience in database design.
• Experience in project management tools and techniques.
• Experience in multi-platform capabilities.
• Experience in user interaction.
• Experience in HTML and web development tools.
• Experience in system development tools (e.g. Endevor, IMS Expert, Xpediter, SQA Team Test, Eclipse).
• Experience in integration.

Knowledge and Skills

• Relational database concepts.
• Use cases, object-oriented design and programming techniques.
• Systems operation practices.
• Security and control procedures.
• Web server, and IP-level distributed technologies.
• Evaluation of a complex system and understanding the inter-dependencies between components.

Preferred

• Experience in an insurance environment or other service industry.
• Rational Unified Process (RUP) development methodology.
• Joint Application Design (JAD)/Rapid Application Design (RAD) techniques.
• Database modeling.

Work Environment

This position is currently able to work remotely from a home office location for day-to-day operations unless occasional travel for meetings, collaborative activities, or team building activities is specified by leadership. This is subject to change based on amendments and/or modifications to the ACG Flex Work policy.

Compensation & Benefits Overview

• Competitive annual salary of $107,036 - $140,000 with annual bonus potential, based on performance.
• Comprehensive and flexible benefits package designed to support health, financial well-being, and professional growth.

Benefits

• Medical plans with multiple coverage options, including HSA eligibility.
• Prescription drug coverage.
• Dental and vision benefits.
• Employee Assistance Program (confidential support services).
• Company-paid basic life insurance.
• Optional supplemental life insurance and dependent coverage.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Critical illness, accident, and pet insurance options.
• 401(k) plan to support long-term financial goals.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Accrual-based, increases with tenure, eligible at 90 days of employment.
• Full-time new employees will receive up to 12 PTO days annually.
• Paid Holidays: Full-time employees are eligible for 10 company-paid holidays annually.
• Paid leave programs, including parental, bereavement, jury duty, and military leave.
• Tuition assistance (up to $5,250 annually; 80% covered by ACG).
• Professional certification support with 100% reimbursement for eligible programs.
• Complimentary AAA membership with roadside assistance and travel discounts.
• Adoption assistance program.

Job Posting Period

This position is expected to remain posted through August 14, 2026; however, it may close at any time once a qualified candidate pool is identified.

Important Note

ACG’s Compensation philosophy is to provide a market-competitive structure of fair, equitable and performance-based pay to attract and retain excellent talent that will enable ACG to meet its short and long-term goals. ACG utilizes a geographic pay differential as part of the base salary compensation program. Salary at time of offer is determined based on these and other factors as associated with the job and job level.