Associate Staff Engineer, Workday Integrations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +2 more locations.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and provide support for comprehensive Workday integrations.

• Create and maintain custom applications, orchestrations, and extensions on the Workday Extend platform.

• Develop and support both inbound and outbound integrations with external and downstream systems.

• Utilize Workday AI and automation features to enhance processes and optimize integration and reporting workflows.

• Write and refine transformations to meet complex data mapping demands.

• Configure and troubleshoot PECI and various payroll/financial interface protocols.

• Construct advanced calculated fields, custom reports, and RaaS endpoints for downstream utilization.

• Oversee integration security design and implement least-privilege API access policies.

• Facilitate technical design sessions, create integration design documentation, and review peer solutions.

• Monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot production integrations; manage incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation efforts.

• Collaborate with functional Workday teams to convert business requirements into scalable technical designs.

• Assist in Workday semi-annual release cycles by evaluating impacts and coordinating regression testing.

• Employ event monitoring, alerting, and log analysis for proactive issue detection.

• Package and promote Workday configurations and integrations across different tenants.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of total experience.

• Proven experience in designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting end-to-end Workday integrations.

• Familiarity with Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, Extend, and Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST).

• Experience in building and maintaining custom applications, orchestrations, and extensions on Workday Extend (Standard and Professional).

• Knowledge of custom business objects, APIs, and UI pages.

• Experience in developing and supporting inbound and outbound integrations with third-party and downstream systems.

• Familiarity with payroll providers, benefits carriers, ATS, financial systems, data warehouses, and middleware such as MuleSoft.

• Experience in utilizing Workday AI and automation capabilities, including Workday Illuminate, AI Gateway, extend-based ML skills, and intelligent automation features.

• Proficiency in XSLT, XPath, Groovy, and Workday Custom Report-based transformations.

• Experience in configuring and troubleshooting PECI and other payroll/financial interface protocols.

• Ability to build advanced calculated fields, custom reports, matrix and composite reports, and RaaS endpoints.

• Knowledge of integration security design, including ISUs, security groups, X.509 certificates, OAuth 2.0, and API access policies.

• Proven experience leading technical design sessions and creating integration design documentation.

• Experience in monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting production integrations.

• Ability to manage incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation strategies.

• Experience collaborating with functional Workday teams across HCM, Payroll, Financials, and ATS.

• Proven ability to support Workday semi-annual release cycles and coordinate regression testing.

• Familiarity with integration event monitoring, alerting, and log analysis tools.

• Experience in packaging and promoting Workday configurations and integrations across tenants.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity for remote work.

• Engaging and non-hierarchical work environment.

• Chance to collaborate with a global team spanning 39 countries.