HR Integrations IT Specialist​/Engineer

Position: HR Integrations IT Specialist / Engineer
McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

HR Integrations IT Specialist / Engineer Richmond, VA, USA - 9954 Mayland Drive- hybrid (2-3 times/week)
Eligible for benefits (dental, health), 401K, generous PTO, and a management incentive program

Position Overview:

The HR Integrations IT Specialist / Engineer serves as the core technical authority responsible for designing, building, maintaining, and monitoring all automated data interfaces connecting the Dayforce HCM platform with downstream business applications, IT infrastructure, and external third-party vendors.

Leveraging Dayforce’s Web Services APIs, XML/XSLT Data Transformations, and secure file protocols, this role ensures seamless real-time and batch data flows for employee lifecycle management (JML/IAM), multi-state payroll, benefit carrier feeds (834 EDI), General Ledger (GL) postings, and enterprise ERP syncs.

Key Responsibilities
1. Dayforce Integration Architecture & API Engineering Design, develop, test, and deploy inbound and outbound data integrations using Dayforce Data Transformations (XML, XSLT, XPath), Dayforce Web Services APIs (REST/SOAP), and Webhooks.

Configure middleware / iPaaS integrations (e.g., Dell Boomi, Mule Soft, Azure Logic Apps, Workato) to orchestrate data movement between Dayforce and enterprise systems (e.g., Net Suite, SAP, Salesforce, Service Now).Build automated secure file exchanges using SFTP/FTPS protocols with mandatory PGP/GPG encryption for sensitive vendor interfaces.
2. Identity Management (IAM) & Core Business Interfaces Partner with IT Infrastructure and Cyber Security to maintain automated Joiner, Mover, Leaver (JML) employee provisioning feeds connecting Dayforce master data to Identity & Access Management (IAM) tools like Okta, Microsoft Entra  (Azure AD), and Active Directory.

Build and maintain 834 EDI carrier feeds to health plans, 401(k)/pension provider interface files, timekeeping interfaces, and custom General Ledger (GL) posting exports.

Build and audit banking/payroll file transformations, ensuring strict adherence to ACH / NACHA and ISO 20022 formats.
3. Systems Monitoring, Security & Troubleshooting Actively monitor Dayforce integration execution logs, establish automated error notification alerts, and resolve payload failures, schema mismatches, or network timeouts.

Implement strict data security controls across all Dayforce data interfaces to safeguard confidential employee PII, compensation data, and health records in transit (SOC 1/2, HIPAA, GDPR/CCPA).Serve as the Tier 3 technical point of contact for integration outages, API endpoint updates, and data synchronization issues.
4. Dayforce Updates, Testing & Governance Lead regression testing and schema validation for all active integrations during Dayforce Service Packs, weekly platform updates, and API version deprecations.

Maintain comprehensive integration mapping documents, technical specs, data dictionaries, and API endpoint inventories within the IT knowledge repository.

Enforce IT Change Management procedures and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) best practices across all Dayforce integration builds.

Minimum Qualifications:

Degree or equivalent and typically…