Workday Techancial Lead

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.

In office 4-10 days a month.

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 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.
  
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• 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.

• Own the Workday integration roadmap, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, Info Sec, and HR/Finance strategies.
• Represent Workday technology in cross‑functional design reviews and incident escalations.
• Collaborate proactively with security, data/analytics, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure alignment on integration standards and data flows.

• 5+ years of Workday technical experience with deep expertise in Workday integrations (Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, PECI/CIC).
• Proven track record serving as a hands‑on integration architect or lead technologist.
• Strong experience building integrations using APIs, Azure APIM, SFTP, and custom interface frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to create reference architectures, solution designs, sequences, and integration patterns.
• Strong understanding of Workday security, business processes, data models, and domain structures across both HCM and Finance.
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