Workday Developer

Workday Developer Contract (3 Months + Possible extension) Remote

About the role

Workday Developer responsible for designing, building, and maintaining integrations and applications across Workday HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Recruiting, AD/Okta, Vendor Management System and benefits vendors.

Responsibilities

• Support & build assigned integration and application work across Workday HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Recruiting, AD/Okta, Vendor Management System and benefits vendors, applying the patterns and standards defined by organization.
• Build and support CCBs, integration with benefits provider for Open Enrolment.
• Build integrations, services, and applications using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, and REST/SOAP/GraphQL APIs; develop Extend applications (custom objects, validations, orchestration-backed workflows) to company‑approved designs.
• Implement observability for assigned integrations (dashboards, metrics, alerts, runbooks) to client standard; resolve assigned high‑severity production issues to root cause and complete follow‑up remediation.
• Coordinate delivery of assigned workstreams: write designs for company review, provide accurate estimates.
• Communicate with technical and non‑technical stakeholders, documenting decisions and build/buy and design trade‑off.

Qualifications

• 5‑8+ years of software or application engineering experience, with significant time spent on platform or enterprise systems.
• 4+ years of hands‑on Workday development across integrations (Studio, EIB, Core Connectors), Extend, Orchestration, and RaaS/WQL.
• Highly skilled in building with REST/SOAP and GraphQL, and in data transformation patterns (XML, XSLT, JSON).
• Demonstrated ownership of integration architecture, including event‑driven patterns, API gateway patterns, and fault‑tolerant design.
• Deep understanding of the Workday data model and security fundamentals (domains, segments, business processes).
• Bachelor's degree from a recognized university in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or a related field (B.E./B.Tech/MCA), or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with an iPaaS platform such as MuleSoft or Workato.
• Workday Integration or Extend certification.

Pay

$65‑70 per hour on W2 (DOE).

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans).
• Supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity).
• 401(k)-retirement savings.
• Life & disability insurance.
• Employee assistance program.
• Legal support.
• Pet insurance.
• Employee discounts with preferred vendors.