Principal Integrations Developer, Workday Hcm

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · CA-Menlo Park, United States · People

This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining integrations for Workday HCM, connecting people systems and ensuring data flow. It involves partnering with stakeholders, providing production support, and ensuring data accuracy and security. A key aspect is integrating Workday with Snowflake for people data pipelines and analytics. The role also emphasizes leveraging AI tools to enhance development and troubleshooting, and requires significant experience with Workday integration technologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build, test, and maintain Workday integrations using technologies such as Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, and Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST)
  2. Partner with internal stakeholders and external vendors to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable integration solutions
  3. Provide production support for integrations, including monitoring, troubleshooting failures, performing root cause analysis, and implementing fixes
  4. Develop and maintain inbound and outbound integrations between Workday and third-party systems (e.g., payroll, benefits, finance, IT systems)
  5. Design, build, and maintain integrations between Workday and our own instance of Snowflake to enable scalable people data pipelines, reporting, and advanced analytics

Skills

Required

  • Workday integration development
  • Workday Studio
  • EIB
  • Core Connectors
  • Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST)
  • XML
  • XSLT
  • JSON
  • web services technologies
  • Workday data models
  • Workday business objects
  • Workday security framework
  • HR processes
  • employee lifecycle data
  • troubleshooting complex integration issues
  • monitoring tools
  • logging frameworks
  • integration error handling best practices
  • AI tools (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Workday Agents)
  • communication skills
  • managing multiple priorities
  • fast-paced environment

Nice to have

  • integration middleware
  • iPaaS solutions (e.g., Boomi, MuleSoft)
  • Workday Extend
  • Orchestrate

What the JD emphasized

  • 10+ years of hands-on Workday integration development experience in a global environment
  • Strong experience with Workday integration tools including Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, and Workday APIs (SOAP/REST), Workday Extend, Orchestrate