Workday Integrations, Reporting, and Technical Lead

Workday Integrations, Reporting & Technical Lead

Client: State of Rhode Island

Role: Workday Integrations, Reporting & Technical Lead

Position Summary

The Workday Integrations, Reporting & Technical Lead will provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise supporting the implementation and ongoing operation of Workday Finance, HCM, and Payroll. This position will lead the design and delivery of Workday integrations, advanced reporting and analytics, data governance, security administration, and technical improvements.

The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise with Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, APIs, Prism Analytics, Report Writer, Calculated Fields, BIRT, Workday Security, XML/XSLT, SOAP/REST services, and Workday Finance.

Workday Integration Responsibilities

• Architect, design, develop, implement, and maintain inbound and outbound Workday integrations.
• Translate functional and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Lead technical intake, architecture, and integration design sessions with SMEs, business leaders, State agencies, and technical teams.
• Design interfaces and perform unit, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Manage integrations supporting Workday Finance, HCM, Payroll, and connected enterprise systems.
• Develop new integrations and troubleshoot existing interfaces, incidents, failures, and data issues.
• Monitor integrations and provide break/fix and production support.
• Develop and maintain integrations using Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, RaaS, APIs, XML, XSLT, SOAP and REST web services.
• Analyze business requirements and develop functional and technical specifications.
• Ensure integration solutions meet functional, technical, data quality, security, and privacy requirements.
• Partner with business and technical teams on interface architecture, design, maintenance, and implementation.
• Follow established Data Governance, integration development, security, and technical standards.
• Lead technical requirements gathering, integration documentation, testing plans, cutover planning, implementation, and stakeholder coordination.
• Identify integration/process gaps and recommend technology and data-quality improvements.

Reporting & Analytics Responsibilities

• Serve as the Workday Finance, HCM, and Payroll Reporting subject matter expert.
• Design, develop, and maintain simple through highly complex Workday reports and dashboards.
• Develop Calculated Fields, Matrix Reports, Composite Reports, Workday Slides, Worksheets, Discovery Boards, report groups, custom objects, and drill-down reporting.
• Utilize Workday Report Writer, Report Designer, BIRT, Prism Analytics, dashboards, and embedded analytics.
• Build complex calculated fields while maintaining data standards and integrity.
• Develop standardized real-time dashboards presenting business metrics and actionable insights.
• Partner with business stakeholders and COEs to gather requirements and design reporting solutions.
• Lead Workday Prism Analytics strategy, development, metrics, dashboards, and reporting.
• Develop a deep understanding of Workday and Prism data structures and data sources.
• Develop and deliver training supporting self-service reporting, scheduling, data literacy, and reporting best practices.
• Manage reporting inventories and persona-based report packages to improve self-service capabilities.
• Lead complex Finance reporting and manage related milestones and deliverables.
• Support Workday biannual upgrades impacting reporting, analytics, and planning.
• Perform UAT and obtain business approval for production deployments.
• Analyze organizational and employee data trends and provide actionable recommendations.
• Maintain reporting standards including naming, descriptions, tagging, formatting, filters, security, and permissions.

Data Governance & Security

• Establish and maintain Data Governance standards supporting data accuracy, consistency, quality, security, and privacy.
• Maintain reporting and data documentation and support auditing activities.
• Administer Workday security, including role-based security, user-based security, domains, custom security groups, ISU, ISSG, and integration security.
• Lead security design, configuration, workflow, testing, auditing, implementation, and administration.
• Review and recommend Workday security best practices.
• Conduct periodic security audits and analyze system usage.
• Maintain appropriate system access while protecting PII and confidential information.
• Collaborate with HR, management, Product Analysts, and business teams to maintain appropriate access following organizational or worker changes.

Technical Support & Continuous Improvement

• Collaborate with Product Analysts and business teams to streamline processes and increase Workday adoption.
• Support design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of Workday solutions.
• Investigate production issues and provide resolutions or technical recommendations.
• Gather, develop, test, and document technical requirements for enhancements and projects.
• Support incident management through internal ticketing systems.
• Manage Object Transportation of configuration packages from Customer Central.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum delivery activities and technical project meetings.
• Continuously evaluate Workday processes, reporting, integrations, security, and data quality for improvement opportunities.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of advanced Workday experience, including advanced reporting.
• 5 years of advanced Workday Integration experience supporting large-scale Workday initiatives.
• 5 years hands-on experience with Workday Studio, including a minimum of 10 Studio integrations.
• 5 years experience with Workday Report Writer, Calculated Fields, Workday Extend, CCB, BIRT, EIBs, Core Connectors, ISU and ISSG.
• 5 years hands-on Workday configuration, development, and testing experience.
• Advanced experience with Workday Studio, Cloud Connect, EIB, Core Connectors, RaaS, Integration Security, XML, XSLT, SOAP and REST APIs.
• 5 years Finance data analysis experience translating business and user requirements into operational/technical solutions.
• 3 years experience with Workday Prism Analytics.
• Deep Workday Reporting experience including BIRT, dashboards, embedded analytics, Composite Reporting, Calculated Fields and Report Writer.
• 3 years Workday security experience related to reporting and integrations.
• Advanced knowledge of role-based/user-based security, domains, security groups, ISU and ISSG.
• 3 years experience working within Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Experience with JSON, XML, XSLT, SOAP and REST web services/APIs.
• Strong understanding of the Workday Business Object Model and relationships.
• Functional understanding of Finance, HCM, Talent Management, Benefits, Time Tracking, Absence and Payroll.
• Strong Workday systems analysis, integration architecture, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong project management and business analysis experience, including requirements gathering and documentation.
• Experience developing testing strategies, executing UAT, supporting cutover, and managing production deployments.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across technical and business teams.
• Ability to handle confidential information and critically evaluate data accuracy and integrity.
• Excellent written/verbal communication, organization, stakeholder management, and customer support skills.
• Prior experience supporting Government Workday and/or Oracle implementations.
• Minimum 3 years in a similar Workday technical position supporting Integrations, Security, or Extend with a technical development background.
• Advanced experience with Workday Studio, APIs, XML/Oxygen XML, XSLT, EIB, Core Connectors, RaaS, Calculated Fields and Microsoft Office.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree preferred.
• Workday certifications are a plus.
• Workday implementation experience within a government/public-sector organization.
• Workday Extend and Workday Orchestrate experience strongly preferred.
• Strong experience supporting Workday Finance and Finance business stakeholders.