Integration Engineer - Talent Technology Engineering

We’re looking for an Integration Engineer who can own the Talent (HR) integrations ecosystem end-to-end. The person will own how Workday and our Talent platforms connect – architecture, reliability, observability, and vendor delivery. You’ll lead design and implementation, and decide how the whole system should work and keep raising the bar.

What You’ll Own
 

1. Integration architecture & ecosystem

• Own the end‑to‑end integration architecture between Workday and our Talent ecosystem (Comp, Recruiting, Enterprise etc.).

• Define and enforce patterns and standards: when we use Workday-native tools vs. middleware, custom platforms, how we handle errors, how we design data contracts, how we secure and version interfaces.

• Actively modernize the landscape: reduce fragile point-to-points, simplify flows, and remove legacy cruft.

2. Design & implementation

• Lead the design and implementation of integrations

• Own the full lifecycle: requirements → design → build → test → deploy → iterate.

• Write and review transformation logic (XSLT, MVEL, etc.) and supporting code

3. Observability & reliability

• Treat observability as part of the spec: metrics, logs, traces, and alerts are designed up front

• Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs for key integrations (latency, error rates, data freshness, etc.).

• Lead incident response and postmortems for integration failures; drive structural fixes.

4. Vendor and partner delivery

• Be the technical lead with vendors: challenge designs, reject weak patterns, and insist on solutions that fit our architecture and standards.

• Hold vendors accountable for quality, performance, and operability

• Work directly with HR, Finance, and other partners to translate business flows into integration designs 

5. Documentation & knowledge sharing

• Maintain clear, current documentation: data contracts, mappings, runbooks, and architecture overviews.

• Raise the integration literacy of the team: coach engineers and partners on how our ecosystem works and how to use it well.

About You

• You’re a systems owner with strong technical skills and opinionated about design and patterns.

• Deep, hands-on experience building and running Workday integrations in production, including:

  • Studio, EIB, Web Services; ideally also Extend and Prism

• Strong experience with at least one middleware platform

• Solid understanding of REST/SOAP APIs, XML, XSLT, JSON, and authentication (OAuth, SAML, etc.).

• Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language (Java, Python, or JavaScript) and comfort digging into code when needed.

• Proven track record of owning complex integrations or data flows end-to-end – you can point to systems that work because you designed and led them, not because you followed someone else’s spec.

• Strong grasp of HR/Talent business processes and HRIS data workflows (recruiting, offers, onboarding, comp, performance)

• You design for operability and scale: you’ve put real observability and resilience into production systems.