Manager, Workday Integrations Engineering & Architect

Service Center

CSCS TX

The Manager, Workday Integrations Engineering & Architecture is a senior technical leader within the Workday Center of Excellence (COE), responsible for leading a team of integration developers who design, build, and maintain secure, scalable data bridges between Workday and third‑party systems. This role is the primary technical authority for all Workday integration patterns and the Workday Extend framework, ensuring that enterprise‑grade automation and custom applications are delivered with the highest standards of quality, security, and performance.

This leader bridges the gap between technical execution and business strategy — translating complex business requirements into robust integration architectures while fostering strong partnerships with Enterprise Architecture, Application Engineering, and functional business teams. The Manager holds a critical Workday‑specific designation as Workday Integrations Lead, serving as the primary liaison with Workday for integration platform support, roadmap alignment, and escalations.

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Workday integration and Extend engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Manage workload prioritization/planning and resource allocation across concurrent integration projects, enhancements, maintenance and support activities.
• Provide technical direction and architectural oversight to the integration development team, setting standards and creating common practices.

Architecture & Technical Design

• Establish and govern architecture standards, patterns, and best practices across the Workday ecosystem for integration development and Workday Extend solutions.
• Lead the creation of Technical Design Specifications, mapping documents, and data transformation logic for all inbound and outbound integrations.
• Translate business requirements from functional and operational stakeholders into detailed technical specifications covering data mapping, transformation rules, and security configurations.
• Partner with the Enterprise Architecture team to ensure integration designs align with organizational technology strategy, scalability requirements, and security policies.
• Evaluate and recommend the appropriate integration pattern for each use case — balancing simplicity, maintainability, and performance across Workday’s toolset.
• Collaborate closely with the Workday Technical Account Manager (TAM) — escalating critical issues, advocating product roadmap priorities, and ensuring the organization maximizes value from its Workday investment.

Development & Configuration

• Oversee and actively guide the development and deployment of integrations using the full Workday toolset:
• Workday Studio (complex, multi‑step integrations with advanced transformation logic)
• Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) for high‑volume inbound/outbound flat‑file integrations
• Core Connectors for standardized, pre‑built integration patterns (Payroll, Benefits, HCM)
• Workday REST and SOAP APIs for real‑time, event‑driven integration patterns
• Workday Orchestrate for complex, multi‑system workflow automation
• Document Transformation for format conversion and data shaping.
• Lead the design and development of custom Workday Extend applications and user interfaces (UI), extending Workday’s native capabilities to meet unique business needs.
• Enforce protocol and file transmission standards (SFTP, PGP encryption, AS2, REST/HTTPS, OAuth 2.0) across all integration touchpoints.
• Champion Dev Sec Ops  best practices within the integration lifecycle, including version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, peer code review, and secure credential management.

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Own end‑to‑end Workday Integration testing, including bi‑annual Workday feature release readiness: impact assessment, and feature evaluation.
• Define and enforce integration testing standards, including unit testing frameworks, smoke testing protocols, and regression test suites for all integration changes.
• Ensure test coverage across data validation, error handling, edge cases, and security…