Sr. Lead Engineer, Integration & Automation

Accountabilities:

• • Define and maintain the enterprise integration architecture across Finance, Revenue, People Technology, Billing, and Go-to-Market, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with engineering standards.
  • Establish and enforce integration design guidelines, coding standards, SLAs, tiering frameworks, monitoring practices, and patterns for error handling, idempotency, retries, alerting, and change management.
  • Lead architecture reviews for new integrations and significant enhancements, making final technical design decisions for complex initiatives.
  • Evaluate integration tools, platforms, and architectural patterns, including build-versus-configure decisions involving iPaaS platforms, native connectors, APIs, and custom development.
  • Audit the existing integration estate, identify technical debt and recurring failure patterns, and develop and execute a prioritized roadmap for technical hardening and modernization.
  • Design, build, optimize, and maintain complex Workday Studio and Workato integrations, including EIB, Core Connectors, Document Transformation, XSLT, multi-step workflows, and major refactoring initiatives.
  • Develop reusable integration components, transformation templates, and shared libraries that improve development speed, consistency, maintainability, and reliability.
  • Build and maintain API-based integrations connecting Workday, Salesforce, Snowflake, Avalara, Workato, and other enterprise platforms using REST, SOAP, JSON, XML, OAuth, and event-driven patterns.
  • Own integration monitoring and alerting, implementing proactive health checks and ensuring failures are identified before they materially affect stakeholders.
  • Lead root cause analysis for critical integration incidents, document post-incident findings, and implement systemic improvements to prevent recurrence.
  • Partner with leadership to recruit, onboard, develop, and retain integration engineering talent across distributed U.S. and international teams.
  • Lead recurring integration grooming sessions to triage, scope, and prioritize new requests before they enter broader cross-functional planning.
  • Serve as the senior escalation point for integration incidents and ensure critical failures receive appropriate root cause analysis and preventive follow-up.
  • Build a culture of documentation, runbook discipline, knowledge sharing, and operational excellence across distributed engineering teams.
  • Partner with leadership to develop and prioritize the AI and automation pipeline based on business impact and organizational value.
  • Identify high-value automation opportunities and ensure production solutions are resilient, documented, monitored, and able to withstand upstream system changes.
  • Act as the senior technical advisor to Finance, HR, Revenue, Billing, People Technology, and Go-to-Market stakeholders.
  • Translate complex integration and architecture concepts into clear, business-oriented recommendations for non-technical audiences.
  • Provide architectural guidance and capacity insights during cross-functional prioritization and planning activities.

  Requirements:

  • 8+ years of experience in enterprise integration engineering, systems architecture, or senior integration engineering roles.
  • Proven hands-on expertise with Workato or a comparable iPaaS platform such as MuleSoft, Boomi, or Informatica, including designing, building, troubleshooting, and maintaining complex multi-step integrations and error-handling workflows.
  • Advanced hands-on experience with Workday Studio, including EIB, Core Connectors, Document Transformation, and XSLT, with the ability to independently build and troubleshoot complex integrations.
  • Strong command of integration architecture patterns, including REST and SOAP APIs, event-driven and publish/subscribe architectures, data transformation, idempotency, retry mechanisms, and dead-letter handling.
  • Experience developing integrations with platforms such as Salesforce, Workday, Snowflake, or similar enterprise systems.
  • Strong working knowledge of JSON, XML, XSLT, OAuth, API-based integration, and related data transformation technologies.
  • Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership to distributed or offshore engineering teams, including conducting architecture and design reviews, setting technical standards, and developing engineers.
  • Experience establishing or maturing integration governance frameworks, including integration tiers, design standards, SLA models, monitoring, alerting, and change management practices.
  • Ability to independently assess a complex integration estate, identify technical debt and operational risks, prioritize remediation opportunities, and execute a modernization roadmap.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both engineering teams and senior Finance, HR, and business stakeholders.
  • Experience working in a SaaS, technology, or high-growth environment where agility, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration are essential.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Workday certification in Studio, Financials, or HCM is a plus.
  • Experience with Salesforce integrations supporting Revenue, Billing, or CPQ workflows is advantageous.
  • Familiarity with SQL and Snowflake for data validation, transformation troubleshooting, and Finance analytics use cases is a plus.
  • Exposure to SOX-compliant environments and related integration documentation, controls, and audit requirements is beneficial.
  • Experience building an integration practice from the ground up or leading a significant integration maturity transformation is a strong advantage.
  • Familiarity with Workday Orchestrate or event-driven automation capabilities within the Workday ecosystem is a plus.

  Benefits:

  • Competitive base salary ranging from $179,900–$269,900 USD for applicable Zone 1 U.S. locations, including CA, CT, DC, MD, MA, NJ, NY, VA, and WA.
  • Competitive base salary ranging from $168,200–$252,200 USD for other U.S. locations.
  • Annual bonus and equity opportunities as part of the total compensation package.
  • Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, including options with 100% employee premium coverage and substantial dependent coverage.
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options.
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching.
  • Flexible time off and support for autonomous work.
  • Comprehensive onboarding, leadership development, and ongoing learning opportunities.
  • Recognition programs, including peer-nominated awards and employee recognition initiatives.
  • Telehealth resources and access to healthcare services.
  • Parental leave and family support programs.
  • Fertility, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement programs, including up to $20,000 in eligible fertility services.
  • Maternity support and breast milk shipping resources.
  • Pet insurance, legal advisory services, and financial planning tools.
  • Opportunity to work remotely within the United States.
  • Opportunity to lead high-impact integration and automation initiatives across critical enterprise business functions.
  • Collaborative environment with distributed engineering teams and senior cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Opportunity to influence AI and automation strategy while working with modern enterprise integration technologies.