Staff Engineer, ERP Workday Extend Integration

This is a senior technical role focused on designing, developing, and supporting sophisticated Workday integration solutions.
You will work across HCM, Payroll, Financials, Talent, and related enterprise systems to deliver scalable and reliable integrations.
The role combines deep expertise in Workday Studio, Extend, EIB, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, APIs, reporting, and automation.
You will design custom applications and extensions while connecting Workday with payroll providers, benefits platforms, ATS systems, financial systems, and data warehouses.
You will also play a key role in production reliability, security, performance optimization, and semi-annual release management.
Working closely with functional and technical stakeholders, you will provide architectural guidance, mentor other engineers, and help drive high-quality delivery in an Agile environment.

• 6+ years of overall professional experience, with strong hands-on experience in Workday integration development and support.
• Advanced experience with Workday Extend, including custom business objects, custom fields, custom APIs, orchestrations, and UI/App Builder pages.
• Advanced expertise in Workday Studio, including complex multi-step integrations, XSLT/XPath transformations, Groovy scripting, error handling, and custom logging.
• Strong experience with Workday EIB, including inbound and outbound integrations, custom transformations, scheduling, and troubleshooting.
• Strong experience with Workday Core Connectors and Cloud Connect for payroll, benefits, and third-party integrations.
• Strong knowledge of Workday Web Services, including SOAP/WWS, REST APIs, RaaS, API versioning, and deprecation management.
• Strong understanding of Workday Orchestrate and Business Process Framework for extending native business processes and implementing custom logic.
• Working knowledge of PECI and experience supporting US Payroll and payroll- or benefits-related integrations.
• Strong experience with Workday security configuration, including ISUs, security groups, domain and business process security policies, X.509 certificates, OAuth 2.0, and SAML.
• Strong Workday reporting experience, including advanced, matrix, and composite reports, calculated fields, and RaaS.
• Working knowledge of Workday Prism Analytics, including data ingestion and integration of Workday and external data sources.
• Exposure to Workday AI and automation capabilities, including Workday Illuminate, AI Gateway, Agents, and machine learning-driven capabilities.
• Experience integrating Workday with third-party systems such as payroll providers, benefits carriers, ATS platforms, financial systems, data warehouses, and middleware such as MuleSoft.
• Strong expertise in XSLT, XPath, Groovy, and complex data transformation and mapping requirements.
• Experience with integration monitoring, alerting, logging, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting Workday semi-annual releases, including impact assessment, regression testing, and remediation.
• Experience packaging and promoting Workday integrations and configurations across multiple tenants.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects in an Agile environment.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.