What you will do:
As our Senior Lead Analyst, Workday Integrations, you will work to understand business needs, including the processes for end-to-end business solutions for HR functions, with a heavy focus on the Workday Integration Cloud Platform. You will provide advanced technical leadership and guidance for Workday integrations, influencing integration design decisions and advising on complex, cross-domain solutions.
You will be responsible for building strong collaborative relationships across the organization in areas that include HR COEs, business-facing HR, Finance, Compliance, Audit, and internal/external Communications with a specific focus on the Workday integration functionality, capabilities, and tools . Additionally, you will design, build, deploy, and consult on integration activities for HR projects, priorities, and enhancements, while providing architectural guidance, risk assessment, and strategic input when solutioning requirements.
Integration Design & Development:
- Design, build, and maintain Workday-native integrations, including:
Third-Party Payroll Integrations
Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)
Workday Connectors and Document Transformations
Workday Orchestrate
Workday Studio
Workday APIs & Web Services
Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS)
- Translate functional and business requirements into technical integration design and recommend optimal integration approaches aligned with Workday best practices and enterprise architecture standards.
- Evaluate integration options, constraints, and tradeoffs, presenting design recommendations to business and technical stakeholders.
- Understand and anticipate downstream impacts, dependencies, and risk across integrated systems.
Delivery & Performance
- Own and manage integration implementation and release activities; configure, test, deploy, and document integrations across tenant environments (Implementation, Preview, Sandbox, Production).
- Lead cutover activities, data validation, and post-production stabilization, serving as an escalation point for complex or high-impact issues.
- Monitor integration performance, proactively identify optimization opportunities, troubleshoot failures, and resolve incidents.
Collaboration & Governance
- Build and maintain strong relationships with business users, business-facing HR, and HR COE teams; serve as subject matter expert on current and upcoming Workday capabilities.
- Partner with HR Product Owners, Business Analysis Managers (BAMs), and Architects to align integrations with HR roadmaps and future-state architecture.
- Coordinate and align with IT, Security, and vendors on connectivity, certificates, data exchanges, and technical standards.
What you need:
Required:
- Bachelor's degree required or in lieu of a degree, an additional 6 years of professional work experience will be considered.
- 6+ years of professional work experience is needed for a successful candidate.
- 5+ years supporting HR or Workday native integrations.
- 3+ years of hands-on Workday integration experience, to include design, build, and deployment.
- 3+ years of experience supporting system implementations, enhancements, or post-production optimization initiatives.
- 3+ years of experience working in an enterprise HRIS ecosystem, including integrations with platforms such as ServiceNow, Active Directory, SSO, payroll providers, and other downstream systems.
Preferred:
- Experience with third-party payroll, benefits, or WFM integrations (e.g., ADP, UKG, Alight) strongly preferred.
- Workday Pro certification(s) related to Integrations.
- Advanced understanding of cloud-based integration technologies, object-oriented data models, and API-based architectures.
- Strong knowledge of HR data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements (e.g., PII, GDPR, Works Council considerations).
- Experience supporting global, multi-country production environments.
- Strong understanding of HR data models and downstream system impacts.
- Familiarity with agile delivery models (Kanban, Scrum) and change management practices.
- Experience working within an HR-owned systems or product organization.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze complex requirements, assess risk and tradeoffs, and design scalable integration solutions with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
$102,600 - $222,300 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.
Posted Date: 04/22/2026
This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.
United States of America Pay Ranges:
- USN : $102,600 - $171,000 USD Annual
- US5 : $107,700 - $179,600 USD Annual
- US10 : $112,900 - $188,100 USD Annual
- US15 : $118,000 - $196,600 USD Annual
- US20 : $123,100 - $205,200 USD Annual
- US30 : $133,400 - $222,300 USD Annual
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