Senior Engineer, Workday Innovation Lead

Responsibilities

• Define AI Strategy: Shape and communicate a clear roadmap for AI-driven enhancements within Workday, including Illuminate, Extend, and Orchestrate.
• Lead Product Development: Own the lifecycle of AI features and extensions—from ideation and prioritization to delivery and iteration.
• Drive Innovation: Champion experimentation with generative AI, agentic workflows, and automation use cases across HR, Finance, and Operations.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with business leaders, developers, and end users to gather feedback, validate solutions, and ensure alignment with enterprise goals.
• Governance & Ethics: Establish and promote responsible AI practices, including transparency, bias mitigation, and data privacy compliance.
• Enablement & Adoption: Develop training, documentation, and change management strategies to accelerate AI literacy and usage across teams.
• Measure Impact: Define KPIs and success metrics for AI initiatives, and report on adoption, ROI, and business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation of Workday experience with Extend apps, REST APIs and event-based integrations preferred
• Workday functional: Understanding of HCM, Security, Business Process Framework (BPF), Reporting, configuration, tenant setup, and Workday governance preferred.
• Proven experience embedding AI agents onto enterprise platforms like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft, where agents take actions in workflows preferred.
• AI/Automation & Agent Model Skills: Understanding agent lifecycle, skill/tool models, workflow-to-agent mapping, data-driven automations, triggers, and execution modes. Ability to manage lifecycle actions such as Discover, Register, Configure, and Activate agents preferred.
• Comfort with tool-using/multi-agent patterns: agents calling APIs, following policies, and operating under enterprise security and audit preferred
• API & Integration Skills: Experience with REST/SOAP APIs, authentication patterns, API gateway concepts, rate limits, telemetry, and integrating via Workday Public APIs, Graph API, RaaS, and ASOR endpoints preferred.
• Architecture & Design: Knowledge of enterprise architecture, system boundaries, secure/scalable agent design, and multi-system agent interactions preferred.
• Vendor/3rd-Party Integration: Coordinating with external partners on APIs, skills/tools, authentication, compliance, and agent registration preferred.

Pay

Anticipated salary range: $123,400 - $176,300
Bonus eligible: Yes

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• 401k savings plan
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Work-Life resources
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy lifestyle programs