Workday Integration Engineer​/Lead

Job Title:
Workday Integration Engineer/Lead

Location:
Canada (REMOTE)

Type:
Contract

Mandatory Certification:
Workday Core HCM Certificate or any Workday Integration.

We are seeking a Workday Integration Engineer/Lead with strong hands-on experience designing and delivering integrations using Workday Orchestration, Workday Extend apps, and Workday APIs (SOAP & REST). The ideal candidate will build event-driven and scalable integrations, implement secure API patterns, and partner with HR/Finance/IT stakeholders to deliver reliable automation across enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities

Integration Design & Delivery

• Design, build, test, and deploy integrations using Workday Orchestration, including event-based triggers and downstream workflows.
• Develop and maintain integrations leveraging Workday APIs (SOAP and REST) for real-time and near-real-time data exchange.
• Build and support integrations using Workday integration frameworks such as:
• EIB (Inbound/Outbound)
• Core Connectors / Cloud Connect
• Workday Studio (as applicable)
• RaaS (Reports-as-a-Service) and calculated fields where needed

Implement integration patterns including:

• Event-driven orchestration (business process events, change events, and system events)
• API-first integrations
• Asynchronous and re-triable processing patterns
• Idempotency, correlation IDs, and transaction traceability

Workday Extend Apps & Automation

• Design and develop Workday Extend applications to enable custom user experiences and orchestrated business outcomes.
• Integrate Extend apps with Workday and external systems using Orchestration and Workday APIs.
• Build reusable services/components for validations, approvals, and process automation.

Event-Based Triggering & Orchestration

• Configure and implement event-based triggers using Workday Orchestration to automate end-to-end processes (e.g., hire-to-provision, job change updates, term-to-deprovision, vendor onboarding).
• Define trigger conditions, event routing, error handling, and observability mechanisms.
• Ensure orchestration flows align with business processes and support audit and compliance requirements.

Security, Controls & Reliability

• Implement security best practices for integrations including:
• Authentication/authorization patterns (e.g., OAuth2 where applicable, API client controls)
• Least privilege access via Workday security domains and integration system users
• Secrets management and secure certificate handling

Build operationally resilient integrations with:

• Monitoring, alerting, logging, and runbooks
• Automated retries, dead-letter handling (when applicable), and reconciliation steps
• Support compliance requirements (SOX/ITGC/data privacy) through strong traceability and documented controls.

Testing, Deployment & Support

• Create and execute integration test strategies including unit tests, end-to-end tests, and regression plans.
• Manage releases across tenants (Sandbox → Implementation → Production) using Workday deployment best practices.
• Provide production support, troubleshoot failures, and perform root cause analysis (RCA) with preventive actions.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work closely with HR/Finance, Security, IAM, and downstream application teams to define interface requirements.
• Translate business needs into solution architecture and integration specifications.
• Provide technical guidance and mentor junior integration developers.

Required Qualifications

• 3–8+ years of Workday integration experience (level adjusted for Engineer vs Lead).

Strong hands-on experience with:

• Workday Orchestration (including event-driven patterns)
• Workday APIs: SOAP and REST
• Workday integration tools such as EIB, RaaS, and/or Studio

Solid understanding of:

• Integration patterns (sync/async, pub-sub concepts, event-driven architectures)
• Data transformation formats: JSON, XML, XSLT
• API testing and debugging tools (e.g., Postman or equivalent)
• Experience building reliable error-handling, monitoring, and reconciliation mechanisms.
• Strong documentation skills (interface specs, data mappings, runbooks, troubleshooting guides).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Workday Extend app development and deployment lifecycle.
• Experience integrating Workday with IAM/Provisioning solutions…