Senior Workday Integration & Extend Consultant # 26-24127

Job Description

We are hiring a Senior Workday Integration & Extend Consultant to support the design, development, enhancement, and maintenance of enterprise integrations and applications across Workday HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Recruiting, identity platforms, vendor management, and third-party benefits providers.

This is a hands-on technical role for someone who can translate business requirements into scalable Workday solutions while working within established integration architecture, security, and engineering standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, enhance, and support integrations across Workday HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Recruiting, identity/access platforms, vendor management systems, and external benefits providers.
• Develop and maintain Workday integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, RaaS/WQL, REST, SOAP, and GraphQL APIs.
• Build and support integrations for benefits administration and Open Enrollment, including connections with healthcare and benefits providers.
• Develop Workday Extend applications, including custom objects, validations, orchestration-backed workflows, and other approved extensions.
• Apply enterprise integration patterns for API-led, event-driven, asynchronous, and fault-tolerant integrations.
• Design and implement appropriate error handling, retries, monitoring, logging, data validation, and recovery mechanisms.
• Work with XML, XSLT, JSON, and other data transformation and mapping technologies.
• Translate functional requirements into technical designs, interface specifications, data mappings, and implementation plans.
• Work closely with HR, Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting, Security, and technology stakeholders to troubleshoot issues and deliver production-ready solutions.
• Follow organizational standards for integration architecture, API management, security, development, testing, and deployment.
• Contribute to technical documentation, code reviews, testing, release activities, and ongoing production support.
• Apply a strong understanding of the Workday data model and Workday security, including domains, segments, security groups, and business processes.

Required Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of software, application, or enterprise systems engineering experience, with significant experience working on enterprise platforms.
• 4+ years of hands-on Workday development with substantial experience across:
• Workday Studio
• EIB
• Core Connectors
• Workday Extend
• Orchestration
• RaaS / WQL
• Strong experience developing and integrating REST, SOAP, and GraphQL APIs.
• Strong knowledge of XML, XSLT, JSON, and enterprise data transformation patterns.
• Demonstrated experience designing or owning integration architecture, including event-driven integration, API gateway patterns, resiliency, and fault-tolerant design.
• Strong understanding of the Workday data model and security fundamentals, including domains, segments, business processes, and security groups.
• Experience with an iPaaS platform, such as MuleSoft or Workato.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Workday Integration or Workday Extend certification preferred/required.

Preferred Experience

• Enterprise HR technology and HCM ecosystem integrations.
• Benefits and Open Enrollment integrations.
• Payroll and third-party vendor integrations.
• Identity and access integrations involving platforms such as Okta or Active Directory.
• Vendor management / contingent workforce integrations.
• Experience supporting integration platforms in large, complex global environments.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline (B.E./B.Tech/MCA), or equivalent practical experience.