IT & Software

Workday Integration Developer

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Manchester · Greater Manchester · United Kingdom

Overview

As a Workday Integration Developer within the Application Platforms team, you design and maintain scalable Workday integrations to connect HR systems, payroll, finance, and data platforms. You will act as a Workday SME, optimizing data flows and ensuring data integrity while collaborating with HR, Technology, and Finance to evolve the HR technology landscape. You’ll lead integration release activities, stay current with Workday updates, and mentor colleagues on improvements and best practices. This is a people-first, collaborative role with tangible impact on how the firm connects HR, payroll, IAM, and data platforms.

Pay / Benefits
  • Meaningful impact
  • Professional growth
  • People-first culture
  • Inclusive environment
Responsibilities
  • Design, build, test and maintain Workday integrations (APIs, EIB, Core Connectors, PECI, RaaS, Studio/Orchestrate)
  • Manage data flows between Workday and downstream systems (Payroll, Finance, IAM, data platforms)
  • Oversee API management (SOAP/REST, authentication models, vendor advisories) and integration platform operations
  • Deploy and maintain integrations to external applications and data warehouses, managing encryption, PGP, secret management, private endpoints and network rules
  • Act as a Workday subject matter expert, translating user stories into technical and system requirements
  • Serve as escalation point to troubleshoot configuration and integration issues, perform root cause analysis and corrective actions
  • Lead release management for integrations (review mandatory items, regression testing, break/fix)
  • Maintain data integrity through audits, validations and maintenance of downstream applications
  • Stay current with Workday releases and best practices, recommending continuous improvements
  • Support training and change management related to Workday enhancements and provide knowledge sharing and mentorship
Key requirements
  • Proven experience with Workday Core HCM and related modules
  • Strong understanding of HR processes and data flows
  • Expertise in Workday Reporting (Advanced, Matrix, Composite), EIBs and calculated fields
  • Hands-on experience with Workday integrations (Studio, Core Connectors and related tools)
  • Excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Strong commitment to data integrity, confidentiality and continuous improvement
  • Analytical mindset
  • Clear communication
  • Stakeholder management
  • Workday Core HCM and related modules
  • Workday Reporting (Advanced, Matrix, Composite)
  • EIBs

Reference: WJ-747_30159338

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