Data Engineering Lead (Talend Workday)

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Role: Data Engineering Lead (Talend Workday)

Location: Philadelphia PA

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Workday Integration Engineer with strong hands-on Talend expertise to design, build, and deliver enterprise-grade ETL pipelines and integration workflows. The ideal candidate has direct experience integrating Workday as a source or target system within a multi-system enterprise landscape and is comfortable working in a fast-paced, agile, fixed-timeline engagement

• Develop, test, and deploy Talend ETL jobs using components including tMap, tJoin, tAggregateRow, tReplicate, tParallelize, tFilterRow, tFlowToIterate, tSort, and tDie
• Build reusable frameworks, error handling routines, logging mechanisms, and reconciliation workflows following enterprise integration standards
• Deploy and schedule jobs via Talend Admin Console (TAC); manage job monitoring and alerting
• Implement data quality checks including schema compliance, null handling, duplicate detection, and business rule validation using Talend Data Quality components
• Manage ETL source code via Git; participate in CI/CD pipeline using Bamboo or equivalent tooling
  
  

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of overall IT experience; minimum 5 years in data engineering / ETL development
• 8 years of hands-on Talend experience (Talend Data Integration, Talend Cloud/Hybrid Studio, or Talend Enterprise - versions 6.x / 7.x / 8.x)
• Demonstrated experience integrating with Workday as a source or target system (HCM, Payroll, or Financial data flows)
• Proven experience delivering ETL integrations across at least two of the following: Salesforce, Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, SAP/Concur, ServiceNow, Microsoft NAV
• Talend: tMap, tJoin, tAggregateRow, tReplicate, tParallelize, tFlowToIterate, tSort, tFilterRow, tDie, tUnique - advanced proficiency required
• Talend Admin Console (TAC): job deployment, scheduling, monitoring
• Talend Data Quality: schema compliance, data stewardship, business rule validation
• Languages: SQL (complex queries, stored procedures), Python (data processing, validation scripts), Java (Talend custom code routines)
• Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, or equivalent RDBMS; strong SQL optimization skills
• Version control: Git (branching, merging, PR reviews)
• API integration: REST/SOAP API consumption within Talend pipelines
  
  

Workday-Specific (Preferred)

• Experience with Workday Integration Cloud Platform (ICWP) or Workday Studio
• Familiarity with Workday web services (WWS), RaaS reports, or EIB integrations
• Understanding of Workday HCM data model: workers, positions, organizations, cost centers