Staff Workday Integration Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Define and take ownership of Airbnb’s Workday integration architecture standards, patterns, and governance frameworks.

• Lead architectural decisions for intricate, high-risk integrations, which include global rollouts, payroll cycles, benefits open enrollment, and system migrations.

• Assess build-versus-buy options, Workday-native versus middleware solutions, and long-term integration platform strategies.

• Establish reusable integration patterns, frameworks for error handling/retry, and standards for observability.

• Architect, design, construct, and maintain both inbound and outbound integrations using Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIBs, Document Transforms, and RaaS APIs.

• Develop integrations utilizing Workday Web Services, including SOAP and REST protocols.

• Manage high-volume payroll, benefits, global workforce, and multi-country integration scenarios.

• Oversee Workday payroll interfaces PECI and PICOF, along with third-party payroll integrations.

• Create and sustain Custom Reports and Calculated Fields for integration and AI-tool utilization.

• Build and maintain Workday Extend applications while applying Workday Orchestrate where suitable.

• Manage integrations through Workday’s semi-annual release cycle, including sandbox testing and controlled production deployment.

• Engineer Airbnb’s Workday MCP server and agentic integrations, focusing on OAuth 2.0 authorization, human-in-the-loop controls, idempotent writes, guardrails, and audit logging.

• Co-own the architecture and governance of Talent Systems AI.

• Drive SLAs, monitoring, alerting, reconciliation, runbooks, root-cause analysis, and preventative controls.

• Oversee security, compliance, PII handling, audit controls, and data reconciliation for HR data flows.

• Manage tenant deployment strategy, Git-based version control, testing, and rollback planning.

• Collaborate with HR, Payroll, Legal/Privacy, IT Security, Finance, enterprise architecture, vendors, and related technology teams.

• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pair development, and documented standards.

• Compose integration design documents, MCP tool specifications, and operational runbooks.

• Represent Talent Systems in architecture forums, AI tooling evaluations, and vendor technical discussions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• 9+ years of experience in enterprise technology, software development, or systems integration.

• A minimum of 5–6 years of hands-on Workday integration development covering requirements gathering, design, construction, testing, go-live, and post-production support.

• Experience with Workday Studio for complex multi-step integrations, sub-integrations, custom error handling and fault frameworks, and XSLT transformations.

• Familiarity with Core Connectors, EIBs, Document Transform payload mapping, PECI, PICOF, RaaS, and Workday Web Services.

• Expert proficiency in XSLT, XML, and JSON; familiarity with Java for custom steps within Workday Studio.

• Working knowledge of the Business Process Framework and HR/payroll operations.

• Familiarity with Workday functional configuration across HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Security, and Time & Absence.

• Experience in REST API design and OAuth 2.0, including user-context authorization-code flows and token lifecycle management.

• Experience in building or integrating LLM-based tools, AI agents, or MCP servers with enterprise business systems.

• Experience in integrating Workday with middleware or iPaaS platforms such as MuleSoft, Boomi, or Workato.

• Proficiency in Git-based version control and structured deployment/change management practices.

• Knowledge of OAuth 2.0, SAML, PGP, SFTP, PII handling, and audit requirements.

• Experience managing integrations throughout Workday’s semi-annual release cycle, including impact assessments and sandbox testing.

• Proven technical leadership in shaping architectural decisions and improving engineering quality.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to function effectively in unstructured, fast-paced environments.

• Experience working within an Agile/Scrum framework.

• Must reside in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility.

• Equity eligibility.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Employee Travel Credits.

• Remote work arrangement eligibility.

• Opportunities for occasional work at an Airbnb office or participation in offsites, as coordinated with the manager.

• Accommodations for disability-inclusive applications and interviews.