Workday Integration Lead

As the Workday Integrations Lead, you own the end-to-end design, build, and health of all Workday data exchanges across Financials, HCM, Payroll, Prism Analytics, and Adaptive Planning. You act as the technical authority on data movement, ensuring accuracy, security, monitoring, and scalable integrations. You will set standards, lead external partners, and drive continuous improvement to deliver reliable, cross-functional solutions that align with Global’s architecture. This is a hands-on, leadership-driven role with impact on finance and people processes.

• Own Global’s Workday integration landscape end-to-end with a documented inventory and owners
• Monitor health, triage failures, and fix root causes to prevent repeats
• Manage integration security (system users, groups, credentials, SFTP/PGP) in line with security standards
• Assess Workday releases and API changes and lead regression testing
• Act as technical authority for work with AMS partner, contractors, and vendors; escalate incidents
• Establish and enforce design standards, naming conventions, documentation, version control and change control
• Document and share integration knowledge to avoid single-person dependencies
• Lead and support Workday integration projects from design to cutover
• Collaborate with Finance, People & Culture, and Technology to deliver cross-functional solutions
• Document as-is/to-be processes and data flows with traceability of requirements and benefits
• Choose the right tools for integrations (Workday tools and broader estate) including XML/XSLT/JSON
• Translate business requirements into technical designs and data mappings
• Deliver integrations that automate data flows into Workday; reduce manual processes
• Shape the integration roadmap and retire or rebuild legacy integrations
• Contribute to enterprise architecture discussions for Workday positioning

• 5+ years’ hands-on experience designing and building Workday integrations (Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Document Transformation, Reports-as-a-Service, BIRT)
• Current Workday Integrations certification
• Strong knowledge of Workday SOAP/REST APIs, XML, XSLT, JSON, and secure file transfer (SFTP, PGP)
• Solid understanding of Workday Financials, HCM, Payroll and Adaptive Planning data structures and processes
• Delivery leadership experience in Workday implementations or major enhancements
• Rigorous engineering discipline: testing, documentation, version control, change management
• Excellent stakeholder skills and ability to explain trade-offs to non-technical audiences; hold partners accountable
• Desirable: Experience with Workday Orchestrate, Extend, Prism Analytics and Accounting Center

• Stakeholder management
• Clear communication
• Collaborative mindset
• Workday Studio
• EIB
• Core Connectors