Senior Workday Engineer

Job Summary

As a Senior Workday Engineer at Cardinal Health, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining complex Workday integrations and solutions. This role is crucial for supporting Cardinal Health’s enterprise HR and business operations, requiring advanced technical expertise to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions with enterprise-wide impact. You will partner closely with cross-functional teams and play a key role in mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and support of complex Workday integrations across HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Time Tracking, Security, and downstream enterprise systems.
• Deliver and support enterprise initiatives, including Workday Public Cloud Migration, Workday Everywhere, EDM, and various vendor integrations.
• Build and maintain secure, scalable integration solutions utilizing Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connectors, CIC+, APIs, and SSO.
• Partner with HRIT, Security/IAM, Network, Infrastructure, and external vendors to ensure compliant, reliable, and performant solutions.
• Perform impact analysis, remediation, and bulk updates related to tenant migrations, reference ID alignment, URL changes, and security updates.
• Establish and enhance integration standards, monitoring, error handling, and support processes to minimize operational risk.
• Support production cutovers, post-production stabilization, and ongoing enhancements.
• Lead and support Mergers & Acquisitions integrations, including coordination and ongoing operations across dual Workday tenants.
• Design and implement Workday Orchestrations to automate complex business processes and integration workflows.
• Leverage Workday Extend to build and support custom applications that complement core Workday and integration solutions.
• Act as a technical mentor, providing guidance, conducting reviews, and recommending best practices to colleagues.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience, preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent work experience, preferred.
• Certification in Workday Extend, preferred.
• Deep expertise in Workday integration architecture, preferred.
• Proven success leading multi-phase Workday projects, tenant migrations, or enterprise-wide technology transformations, preferred.
• Ability to work effectively in ambiguous environments, prioritize tasks efficiently, and deliver scalable, high-quality solutions, preferred.

What Is Expected of You and Others at This Level

• Applies advanced technical knowledge and understanding to manage and lead complex, high-impact projects.
• Independently determines implementation approaches while receiving guidance on overall objectives.
• Participates in and influences the development of standards, policies, and procedures.
• Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models.
• Works on or leads projects of large scope with significant and long-term impact.
• Delivers solutions that may set technical or operational precedent.
• Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues.

Key skills/competency

• Workday Integrations
• Workday Studio
• EIBs (Enterprise Interface Builders)
• Core Connectors
• Workday APIs
• Workday Extend
• Workday Orchestrations
• HCM (Human Capital Management)
• Application Development
• Technical Leadership