Lead Workday Extend Engineer
About the role
The Lead Workday Extend Engineer is the technical owner of the Workday Extend platform and serves as the enterprise authority for designing, delivering, and governing custom applications built on Extend. This role partners with senior functional, security, integration, and architecture leaders to solve highly complex business problems while ensuring solutions align with Workday’s delivered capabilities and long-term roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the enterprise technical lead and subject matter expert for the Workday Extend platform.
- Own Extend solution architecture, development standards, and governance models.
- Lead the design and delivery of complex, cross-functional Extend applications from concept through production support.
- Partner with functional, integration, and security leaders to ensure solutions align with Workday best practices and compliance requirements.
- Architect and implement secure, scalable integrations using Workday APIs, events, and orchestration frameworks.
- Establish and enforce SDLC, testing strategies, and release management across Workday tenants.
- Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design guidance, mentoring, and escalation support.
- May supervise staff.
Requirements
- Expert-level mastery of Workday Extend, including UI frameworks, Orchestrations, data services, and event-driven architecture.
- Deep understanding of Workday security, business process framework, tenant strategy, and data privacy controls.
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate when to extend Workday versus use delivered configuration or integrations.
- Strong architectural and design skills in complex, highly integrated enterprise environments.
- Experience operating in regulated industries with strong change control and audit requirements.
- Proven leadership as a senior individual contributor influencing technical direction without direct people management.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to executive and non-technical audiences.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma/GED required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field preferred.
- Minimum of 8–10 years of experience in enterprise application development or Workday technical roles required.
- Proven experience leading the design and delivery of production-grade Workday Extend applications required.
- Workday Pro Certification – Extend (active or ability to obtain within 1 year).
Skills
- Expert-level mastery of Workday Extend, including UI frameworks, Orchestrations, data services, and event-driven architecture.
- Deep understanding of Workday security, business process framework, tenant strategy, and data privacy controls.
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate when to extend Workday versus use delivered configuration or integrations.
- Strong architectural and design skills in complex, highly integrated enterprise environments.
- Experience operating in regulated industries with strong change control and audit requirements.
- Proven leadership as a senior individual contributor influencing technical direction without direct people management.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to executive and non-technical audiences.
Benefits
Located in Boston and the surrounding communities, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life-changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer, HIV/AIDS, and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds, and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment, we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers, and we work with amazing partners, including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.
Pay
$149,600.00 - $162,400.00