Manager Workday Integrations

Position: Senior Manager / Manager Workday Integrations (Architect Level
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Hyderabad / Pune
Experience: 9+ Years
Certification: Mandatory
End-to-End Implementation: Minimum 3 Implementations

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end integration architecture across Workday HCM, Financials, and third-party systems, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
• Define integration strategy and patterns using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, APIs, and middleware platforms.
• Lead solution design workshops with clients and internal stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical architectures.
• Lead the design and development of complex integrations, including transformations, orchestration, and data mapping.
• Establish architecture standards, frameworks, and reusable components across projects and managed services.
• Perform design reviews and govern integration quality, including error handling, performance optimization, and security compliance.
• Partner with US and global teams to align architecture with enterprise and client strategies.
• Drive technical troubleshooting and resolution of complex production issues and high-impact integration failures.
• Mentor and guide integration consultants and leads.
• Collaborate with functional, data, and enterprise architecture teams for end-to-end solution alignment.
• Contribute to practice growth through innovation, accelerators, capability development, and pre-sales solutioning.
• Stay current with the Workday roadmap, integration technologies, and industry trends.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field. Master’s/MBA preferred.

• 9+ years of experience in enterprise technology consulting, with 6+ years in the Workday ecosystem and deep specialization in integrations.

• Proven experience designing and architecting large-scale Workday integration solutions across the full lifecycle.

• Expert-level proficiency in:

• Workday Studio

• Core Connectors (PECI, PICOF, Benefits, etc.)

• EIB (Inbound/Outbound)

• Workday APIs (SOAP/REST) and web services

• XML/XSLT, JSON, and data transformation

• Strong experience with integration architecture patterns, including:

• Real-time vs. batch integrations

• Event-driven architectures

• Middleware integration strategies

• Hands-on experience designing, building, troubleshooting, and optimizing integrations.

• Experience defining error handling frameworks, reconciliation strategies, and integration monitoring approaches.

• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, security models, and data governance principles.

• Proven ability to influence stakeholders, lead technical discussions, and provide architectural direction across teams.

• Experience in client-facing roles with US-based delivery models preferred.

• Current Workday Integration certification is mandatory.

• Additional Workday certifications preferred.