Workday Integrations Senior Lead Analyst

Position Summary

As our Senior Lead Analyst, Workday Integrations, you will work to understand business needs, focusing on end-to-end solutions for HR functions with a strong emphasis on the Workday Integration Cloud Platform. You will provide advanced technical leadership for Workday integrations, influencing design decisions and advising on complex, cross-domain solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Workday-native integrations, including Third-Party Payroll Integrations, EIB, Workday Connectors, and more.
• Translate functional and business requirements into technical integration design, recommending optimal approaches aligned with Workday best practices.
• Evaluate integration options, presenting design recommendations to stakeholders.
• Own and manage integration implementation and release activities, ensuring successful configuration and deployment.
• Lead cutover activities, data validation, and post-production stabilization.
• Monitor integration performance, proactively identifying optimization opportunities and resolving incidents.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with business users and HR teams, serving as a subject matter expert.
• Partner with HR Product Owners and Architects to align integrations with HR roadmaps.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required or 6 years of professional work experience in lieu of a degree.
• 6+ years of professional work experience.
• 5+ years supporting HR or Workday native integrations.
• 3+ years of hands-on Workday integration experience, including design, build, and deployment.
• 3+ years supporting system implementations or enhancements.
• 3+ years experience in an enterprise HRIS ecosystem, including integrations with platforms like ServiceNow and payroll providers.

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.