Staff Workday Integration Engineer

Integration Architecture & Technical Strategy:

• Define and own Airbnb's Workday integration architecture standards, patterns, and governance frameworks.
• Lead architectural decisions for complex, high-risk integrations such as global rollouts and payroll runs.
• Establish reusable design patterns and observability standards adopted across the team.

Core Integration Development:

• Architect and build integrations using Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIBs, Document Transforms, and RaaS API endpoints.
• Develop against Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST) for high-volume scenarios like payroll and benefits enrollment.
• Manage Workday semi-annual release cycles, ensuring seamless upgrades with minimal rework.

Production Reliability & Operations:

• Drive operational excellence including SLAs, monitoring, alerting, and runbook standards for critical integrations.
• Implement PII handling, audit controls, and compliance strategies for GDPR, India PDPB, and SOC 2.
• Enforce data security protocols like PGP, SFTP, OAuth 2.0, and SAML across all integration surfaces.

Technical Leadership:

• Act as a technical authority across BizTech, influencing decisions in middleware, Identity, and Data Platform teams.
• Mentor senior engineers through design and code reviews, and write authoritative integration design documents.
• Partner with HR and Legal teams to translate business requirements into robust technical architectures.