Lead, Workday Integration Engineer

Location: New York

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

The Company operates Snapchat, a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji, Saturn, and other digital services.

The People team enables Snap’s continued success by hiring great people, helping them grow, rewarding them, and building healthy and productive workplaces. The People Team is composed of Talent, Total Rewards, IDEA, Data & Analytics, People & Recruiting Operations, Council, and Employee Relations. Together, they collaborate with the business to reinforce our values of Kind, Smart, and Creative across our global offices, every day.

This team empowers everyone at Snap to do their best work, be themselves, and feel part of a cohesive, global community.

We’re looking for a Lead, Workday Integration Engineer to join the People Team at Snap Inc!

What you’ll do:

Partner with Product, Configuration, People Analytics, Engineering, IT, and other stakeholders to understand business challenges, uncover underlying needs, and translate complex or ambiguous requirements into scalable, user-centric solutions.

Own end-to-end technical delivery for integration and automation solutions—from discovery and architecture through development, testing, deployment, and ongoing optimization.

Evaluate and recommend solutions across Workday and the broader enterprise technology ecosystem, balancing business value, user experience, scalability, maintainability, security, performance, and cost.

Architect and develop complex integrations using Workday Studio, Orchestrate, EIBs, Connectors, Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS), Workday Web Services, and REST APIs.Design and build custom applications, APIs, and automation solutions using Workday Extend and technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Python, XML, XSLT, SOAP, and REST.Serve as a subject matter expert on Workday APIs, advising on capabilities and limitations, authentication, security, business process dependencies, request and response structures, error handling, and API best practices.

Apply deep knowledge of Workday business processes, reporting, security, data architecture, and object relationships to design holistic solutions that extend beyond traditional integrations.

Partner with engineering and analytics teams on downstream data models, table structures, joins, and transformation logic that accurately represent Workday data and support scalable applications and reporting.

Lead technical assessments and identify opportunities to simplify architecture, reduce technical debt, optimize API consumption, and improve reliability and system performance.

Design and implement monitoring, logging, error handling, and alerting to deliver observable, maintainable, and resilient solutions.

Develop and execute comprehensive testing strategies, including unit, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing, with careful consideration of edge cases and downstream impacts.

Troubleshoot complex issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement durable fixes that prevent recurrence.

Drive technical project execution by managing dependencies, coordinating stakeholders, communicating risks and tradeoffs, and maintaining accountability for delivery timelines and outcomes.

Explore and apply emerging technologies—including AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, MCP, and API-driven architectures—to deliver more intelligent, flexible, and…