Senior Workday Integrations Engineer

Western Governors University • Full-time • Hybrid in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. • $140,200 - $217,200 / year • 3w ago

Fast Facts

This Senior Workday Integrations Engineer role focuses on architecting and enhancing financial integrations within Workday, ensuring seamless data flow and compliance while mentoring junior developers.

Responsibilities: Design and develop complex Workday financial integrations, maintain and troubleshoot existing integrations, collaborate with finance teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Skills: Expertise in Workday Financials, Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIBs, and proficiency in SOAP/REST APIs and data transformation.

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with 5+ years of Workday integration experience, especially in Financials. Workday certifications preferred.

Location: Position based in Salt Lake City, United States with occasional travel required.

Compensation: $140200 - $217200 / Annually

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade: Technical 410Pay Range: $140,200.00 - $217,200.00

Job Description

The Senior Workday Integrations Engineer (Financials) serves as a key technical leader responsible for the architecture, development, and optimization of Workday Financial integrations. This role focuses on building, maintaining, and enhancing interfaces that support critical finance business functions — including Procurement, Supplier Accounts, Banking, Accounting, and Reporting.

The engineer partners closely with Finance, Accounting, and IT teams to ensure seamless data flow across Workday and third-party systems, ensuring accuracy, security, and compliance. They provide technical leadership across integration initiatives, mentor junior developers, and establish best practices that improve system performance and scalability.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and deploy Workday integrations supporting Financials modules such as: Supplier Accounts and Invoicing, Procurement and Purchase Orders, Banking and Cash Management, Accounting Journals Expenses, and Payroll Accounting, Financial Reporting and Consolidation
Lead the design and architecture of complex inbound and outbound integrations using Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connectors, REST/SOAP APIs, and XSLT.
Collaborate with Finance leadership to translate business requirements into scalable integration solutions that automate financial workflows and improve data accuracy.
Develop secure, efficient, and reusable integration frameworks for journal loads, supplier updates, spend category reporting, and payment interfaces.
Maintain and troubleshoot critical integrations between Workday and external systems such as ERP, payment gateways, expense tools, banks, and third-party vendors.
Ensure compliance with data governance, audit, and security policies for all financial data integrations.
Support Workday release testing and manage regression testing for Financials integrations.
Create technical documentation for design specifications, mapping documents, and integration support guides.
Mentor junior engineers and provide peer reviews for code and configuration.
Stay current on Workday Financials updates and identify opportunities for automation and performance improvements.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Deep understanding of Workday Financials and its core data model — including Suppliers, Spend Categories, Cost Centers, Companies, Ledgers, and Accounting Journals.
Hands-on expertise with Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors (Supplier, Journal, Banking, and Expense).
Proficiency in Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST), XSLT/XML, and data transformation logic.
Experience with bank file integrations (ACH, BAI2, Positive Pay, Payment File Transmission).
Strong knowledge of Workday Accounting setup and mapping structures (Company, Ledger Account, Spend Category, Cost Center, etc.).
Familiarity with Workday Financial Reports (RaaS, Composite, Matrix) to support outbound data feeds.
Experience managing SFTP, OAuth2, and API security frameworks.
Skilled at integrating with third-party financial systems such as Coupa, Concur, NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or banking platforms.
Excellent debugging, monitoring, and performance-tuning skills for integrations in Production.
Strong documentation, collaboration, and communication skills across technical and business teams.

Job Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
5+ years of Workday Integration experience with at least 3 years focused on Financials.
Demonstrated expertise in Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIB, and Web Services.
Workday Integration or Workday Financials Certification strongly preferred.
Proven success integrating Workday Financials with external banking, payment, and ERP systems.
Experience in Workday Report Writer and RaaS for integration reporting.
Preferred Experience:
Knowledge of Workday Financials business processes, including accounting journal creation, supplier invoicing, and expense processing.
Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodology and tools such as JIRA and Git.
Prior experience supporting Workday Financials implementations, tenant migrations, or new module rollouts.

Physical Requirements

Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds occasionally.

Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.

This position requires occasional travel of up to 20%, including required attendance at designated company summits (typically one to two per year). Additional travel may include conferences, visits to company locations, and other business-related events as needed. Additional travel may be assigned as needed to support business requirements.

Position & Application Details

Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive.

Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.