Lead, Workday Integration Engineer

Description

The company makes a visual messaging app and several other digital services. It also runs a wholly-owned subsidiary focused on more human computing.

The People team handles hiring, growth, rewards, and healthy workplaces. Its groups are Talent, Total Rewards, IDEA, Data & Analytics, People & Recruiting Operations, Council, and Employee Relations. They work with the business across offices worldwide.

You will join the People Team as a Lead, Workday Integration Engineer.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product, Configuration, People Analytics, Engineering, IT, and other stakeholders to surface real problems and turn unclear or complex requests into scalable, user-focused solutions.
• Own integration and automation work from discovery and architecture through build, testing, release, and ongoing tuning.
• Assess options across Workday and the wider enterprise stack, weighing business value, user experience, scale, upkeep, security, speed, and cost.
• Build complex integrations with Workday Studio, Orchestrate, EIBs, Connectors, Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS), Workday Web Services, and REST APIs.
• Create custom apps, APIs, and automations with Workday Extend and languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python, XML, XSLT, SOAP, and REST.
• Act as the go-to expert on Workday APIs, explaining what they can and cannot do, along with authentication, security, process dependencies, payload structures, error handling, and best practice.
• Use your knowledge of Workday processes, reporting, security, data architecture, and object relationships to design solutions that go beyond standard integrations.
• Work with engineering and analytics teams on downstream data models, tables, joins, and transforms that accurately reflect Workday data and support applications and reports.
• Lead technical reviews and find ways to simplify architecture, reduce tech debt, use APIs more efficiently, and improve reliability and performance.
• Build monitoring, logging, error handling, and alerts so solutions stay visible, maintainable, and resilient.
• Plan and run testing across unit, integration, regression, and user acceptance, checking edge cases and downstream effects.
• Investigate complex failures, find root causes, and fix them so they do not come back.
• Run technical delivery by managing dependencies, coordinating stakeholders, flagging risks and tradeoffs, and owning timelines and results.
• Explore emerging tools, including AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, MCP, and API-driven designs, to make People Technology smarter and more flexible.
• Keep clear technical documentation, design specs, and knowledge sharing that help the team maintain and improve its work.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience.
• 5+ years of Workday integration development using Workday's integration tools, such as RaaS, Enterprise Interface Builder, Document Transformation, Connectors, Workday Studio, or similar.
• Deep knowledge of Workday integrations, reporting, business processes, security frameworks, and data architecture.
• Advanced skill with Workday SOAP and REST APIs, including API behavior, payload structures, authentication, error handling, and dependencies on process configuration.
• Solid software engineering basics: API design, data structures, system architecture, integration patterns, and secure development.
• Experience designing downstream data models and transformation logic for applications, analytics, and reporting.
• Working proficiency with Workday Studio, Orchestrate, EIBs, Connectors, RaaS, Workday Extend, Workday Web Services, REST APIs, Java, JavaScript, Python, XML, XSLT, SOAP, and REST.
• Strong product thinking: you understand user needs, question assumptions, and rank work by business impact and user experience.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, problem solving, organizational, and decision-making skills, including handling ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Adaptable, curious, open to feedback, committed to improving, and willing to learn emerging technologies and AI tools.
• Ability to lead cross-functional work and influence partners at every level, explaining complex technical ideas and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to balance technical quality with business priorities, delivery deadlines, and long-term maintainability.
• Experience working in Agile teams and using project management tools such as Jira.
• Preferred: 7+ years of extensive experience across Workday Core HCM, Compensation, Recruiting, Benefits, US Payroll, Absence Management, and Time Tracking.
• Preferred: 2+ years of Workday Extend development experience.
• Preferred: Workday Pro certification in Integration Administration or Workday Studio.
• Preferred: Strong experience using XSLT to transform XML data from Workday reports and web service responses.
• Preferred: Strong experience with industry-standard web services, including WSDL, SOAP, REST, and the WS- standards.

Conditions

The company expects you to work in an office 4+ days per week under its default-together approach.

US work locations sit in pay zones that set the salary range. Zone A (CA, WA, NYC): $173,000-$259,000 base salary annually. Zone B: $164,000-$246,000 base salary annually. Zone C: $147,000-$220,000 base salary annually.

Starting pay depends on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions, and may be negotiable within the range. The pay zones may change in future.

This position is eligible for equity in the form of RSUs.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants with criminal histories in line with applicable law.

Benefits

• Paid parental leave.
• Comprehensive medical coverage.
• Emotional and mental health support programs.
• Compensation packages that let you share in the company's long-term success.