Workday Platform Engineer

Location: Toronto

As a Workday Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, configuring, and optimizing our Workday ecosystem to support critical HR, Finance, and business operations. This is an opportunity to work on innovative Workday solutions, integrations, and platform enhancements that directly improve employee and organizational experiences. Your contributions will help drive operational excellence, data integrity, security, and process automation across the enterprise.

In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams, influence platform strategy, and gain exposure to complex enterprise Workday capabilities while advancing your technical and professional growth.

Position Responsibilities:

Design, configure, maintain, and enhance Workday platform solutions, including business processes, security, integrations, and reporting.

Partner with HR, Finance, Payroll, and Technology stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver scalable Workday solutions.

Develop, test, deploy, and support Workday integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Extend, Orchestration and web services.

Troubleshoot platform issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement sustainable solutions to improve system performance and reliability.

Support Workday releases, platform governance, security compliance, documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Qualifications:

5+ years of experience supporting enterprise HRIS platforms, including at least 5 years of hands-on Workday experience.
5+ years of experience developing and supporting Workday integrations, reports, calculated fields, and business processes.

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field.

Workday certification(s) in relevant functional or technical areas are considered an asset.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Workday Extend and Workday Orchestrate.

Strong knowledge of Workday security architecture and role-based access controls.

Experience supporting multiple Workday modules such as HCM, Recruiting, Talent, Payroll.

Knowledge of integration technologies, including REST/SOAP APIs, XML, XSLT, and middleware platforms.

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

When you join our team:

We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.#LI-Hybrid The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

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