Senior Tech Lead - Workday

A Little About Us

Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers, including the top five national health plans, regional health plans, TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts – driving real, measurable results for clients.

You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work, inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences, community involvement, and the valuable lessons you've learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements, the knowledge you've gained, and the personal interests that shape who you are.

The Senior Tech Lead, Workday is the enterprise’s technical authority for all integrations and architectural patterns for Workday. This senior individual contributor owns the integration landscape, end-to-end-design, build, patterns, governance, modernizations, and technical roadmap. In addition, the role serves as a trusted architect and hands-on technologist across all Workday domains (HCM and Finance), helping shape scalable, resilient, AI-enabled business processes across the People & Culture and Finance technology ecosystem.

This role combines deep Workday integration expertise, modern API engineering skills, architectural thinking, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable designing next-generation integration patterns as they are rolling up their sleeves to build or troubleshoot critical interfaces.

• Serve as Zelis’ technical authority for all Workday integrations across HCM and Finance domains.
• Design and govern end-to-end integration patterns using Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIB, and Workday REST/SOAP APIs.
• Architect integrations using Azure API Management, SFTP, custom APIs, and influence the evaluation and adoption of other integration middleware.
• Define reusable patterns, reference architectures, and technical standards for how Workday interfaces with the broader enterprise ecosystem (e.g., Snowflake, Salesforce, AWS).
• Maintain deep knowledge of Workday’s integration capabilities, upcoming platform changes, and release cycles.

• Develop, configure, and troubleshoot complex integrations in Workday Studio and related frameworks.
• Perform root-cause analysis for integration incidents, ensuring permanent fixes and architectural hardening.
• Mentor Workday analysts and partner engineers on best practices for API usage, error handling, and data transformation.
• Champion security-by-design principles, including tokenization, encryption, and identity-centered patterns.

• Support all Workday domains at an architectural level, with ability to advise on data models, cross-domain dependencies, configuration approaches, and extensibility.
• Act as a technical partner to HR Tech and Finance Tech product owners to ensure coherence between business and platform design.

• Lead adoption of AI and predictive automation within the Workday integration landscape.
• Implement AI-enabled monitoring or copilots to detect anomalies, data breaks, and integration failures early.
• Partner with HR/Finance stakeholders to identify opportunities to streamline business workflows using Workday Extend or AI/LLM-driven patterns.
• Advocate for continuous modernization of Workday processes and integrations.

• Provide architectural input on how Workday should integrate with other HR/Finance platforms (e.g., recruiting systems, payroll vendors, procurement or expense tools, case management).
• Influence platform selection, integration design, and data flow considerations for new systems entering the HR/Finance stack.