Staff AI and Automation Engineer (Workday)

Role summary

The Staff Integrations and AI Engineer (Workday) will be the technical lead for integrations across DDN’s Workday Finance and HCM ecosystems. This hands-on role will partner closely with HR, TA, and Finance business stakeholders, the HCM and Finance Systems teams, and enterprise technology teams to design, build, support, and evolve secure, scalable integrations and automations.

You will balance proven Workday integration patterns with modern API-driven automation, including AI-enabled workflows, in a fast-paced and evolving environment.

What you’ll do

• Lead the end-to-end design, development, testing, deployment, and support of Workday HCM integrations with internal systems, vendors, and enterprise platforms.

• Partner directly with HR, TA, and Finance stakeholders to translate business needs into clear, supportable technical designs and data flows.

• Build and enhance integrations using Workday Studio, EIBs, Workday connectors, reports-as-a-service, web services, Workday Orchestration for Integrations, and document transformations.

• Develop integrations and automations using REST and SOAP APIs, JSON, XML, XSLT, and GraphQL where appropriate.

• Use integration-platform-as-a-service technologies, including Workato, to orchestrate workflows across Workday and adjacent systems.

• Provide technical leadership and pragmatic guidance on best choice integration (Workday Connector/Native, iPaaS, Studio, Orchestration for Integrations, Google Cloud Functions, etc) tool for people data movement depending on the use case.

• Design innovative, API-based automations that responsibly incorporate AI capabilities while maintaining strong security, reliability, and operational controls.

• Own integration troubleshooting, monitoring, root-cause analysis, and production support; improve resiliency, observability, and documentation over time.

• Establish and maintain technical specifications, field mappings, test plans, deployment runbooks, and integration documentation.

• Participate in Workday release-impact analysis and testing, identifying enhancements and risks across the integration landscape.

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of hands-on Workday integration development experience, with a strong focus on Workday HCM or Financials.

• Demonstrated experience leading integration work from requirements through design, development, testing, deployment, and post-production support.

• Deep practical expertise with Workday Studio, EIBs, Workday web services, Core Connectors, custom reports, Integration Security Groups, and document transformations.