HRISTechnical Practice Lead

Technical Practice Lead, Workday Integrations & Reporting Position Scope and Organizational Impact

The Technical Practice Lead, Workday Integrations & Reporting, serves as the senior technical authority responsible for architecting, building, and optimizing an organization’s Workday integration and reporting ecosystem. This role leads a team of 2–3 Workday technical professionals focused on delivering scalable, secure, and high-performing integrations, APIs, reports, dashboards, and data solutions that support HR, Payroll, Accounting, Finance, and broader business operations.

As both a hands-on Workday technical expert and a people leader, the Practice Lead drives the Workday technical roadmap, establishes governance standards, and delivers innovative solutions leveraging Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Orchestrate, Workday Reporting, Prism, and/or Extend. The role partners closely with HRIS, IT, Finance, and external vendors to enhance data quality, automation, and business decision-making.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Workday technical analysts and specialists, ensuring high performance and professional growth
• Define integration and reporting architecture standards, coding practices, documentation guidelines, and governance protocols
• Own the Workday technical roadmap, prioritizing integration performance, data flow optimization, reporting scalability, and adoption of new capabilities
• Establish quality assurance practices for integrations, reports, security, and data pipelines
• Lead the requirements gathering, design, build, testing, deployment, and support of Workday integrations using Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, REST/SOAP APIs, Document Transformation, and Orchestrate
• Oversee integration lifecycle management including monitoring, auditing, error handling, optimization, and performance tuning
• Translate complex business and technical requirements into scalable, robust technical solutions
• Manage cross-functional integration projects, ensuring timelines, dependencies, risks, and deliverables are effectively controlled
• Lead the enterprise reporting strategy leveraging Report Writer, Calculated Fields, Advanced/Composite Reporting, BIRT, Dashboards, and Discovery Boards
• Drive adoption of Workday Prism for data blending, pipelines, transformations, and large-scale analytics
• Partner with HR, Payroll, and Finance to deliver real-time insights, compliance reporting, and operational dashboards
• Ensure strong data governance through controls, audits, validations, and secure data movement across systems
• Independently manage projects, including cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex integration, reporting, or data issues
• Foster strong partnerships across technical and non-technical teams as well as third-party vendors
• Manage vendor relationships and ensure seamless connectivity with downstream or upstream systems
• Support Workday biannual releases with technical impact assessments and integration validation
• Champion continuous improvement, automation, and modernization of Workday technical capabilities
• Perform other duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field
• 7+ years of Workday technical experience, including 5+ years of hands-on integration and reporting development
• 3+ years of people-leadership experience (managing engineers, analysts, or technical consultants)
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional projects and delivering high-quality technical solutions
• Proven ability to implement governance, standardization, and scalable technical frameworks
• Advanced hands-on proficiency with:
  • Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, Document Transformation, Orchestrate
  • Workday Reporting (Report Writer, Calculated Fields, Composite/Advanced Reports, BIRT, Dashboards, Discovery Boards)
• Strong understanding of Workday data structures and HCM/Payroll data models
• Experience with integration monitoring, error handling, security, data validations, and performance tuning
• Working knowledge of SQL, data lakes, ETL patterns, and cross-system data flows
• Familiarity with middleware technologies (e.g., Boomi, Mule Soft, Azure/AWS integration tools) is a plus
• Experience with Prism Analytics (pipelines, transformations, external data ingestion) is a plus
• Experience developing or supporting Workday Extend applications is a plus

Job Title:

Technical Practice Lead, Workday Integrations & Reporting

Job Location:

Fort Lauderdale, FL
Classification:
Full-Time, Exempt, Salaried

Reports To:

Director, HRIS

Compensation:
$130,000 per year