Senior Manager - Workday Integrations

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technology liaison for Talent Acquisition, Recruiting, and HR Operations teams.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand hiring, onboarding, recruiting, and Core HR operational processes and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Provide consulting and solution recommendations aligned with Workday best practices and enterprise architecture standards.
• Influence roadmap decisions and identify opportunities to streamline HR processes through automation and integration.
• Lead the design, development, implementation, and support of Workday integrations.
• Drive end-to-end solution architecture for complex inbound and outbound integrations.
• Conduct integration design workshops and lead technical discussions independently with minimal supervision.
• Ensure integrations meet performance, security, compliance, and scalability requirements.
• Establish integration standards, reusable design patterns, and governance processes.
• Drive project planning, estimation, and execution for integration initiatives.
• Ensure successful delivery within scope, budget, and timeline commitments.
• Coordinate cross-functional testing, deployment, and post-production support activities.
• Communicate project status, risks, and mitigation plans to leadership and stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: 10+ years of hands-on experience supporting Workday integrations, 5+ years leading integration teams, projects, or programs.
• Technical Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Workday Connectors, Workday REST & SOAP APIs, RAAS, XSLT, XML/XPath.
• Functional Knowledge: Deep understanding of Workday Recruiting, strong knowledge of Job Requisitions, Candidate Management, Recruiting Workflows, Hiring Processes, Onboarding, Talent Acquisition Operations.
• Leadership Competencies: Strong executive presence and communication skills, ability to lead solution design sessions and workshops independently, exceptional stakeholder management and business consulting capabilities, proven ability to influence without authority, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to work effectively in a fast-paced global environment, experience managing offshore and geographically distributed teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Workday Integration Certification(s).
• Experience with Workday Extend and Orchestrate.
• Experience integrating Workday with ATS platforms, background screening vendors, onboarding solutions, and HR operational systems.
• Experience supporting Workday public cloud transformations, tenant migrations, or large-scale HR technology programs.
• Knowledge of HR data privacy, security, and compliance requirements.