Sr. Workday Technical Lead

Who You'll Work With:

Shape how Workday connects, extends, and powers the business. As part of our People & Finance Technology team, you’ll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership to build enterprise integrations, custom Workday Extend applications, and better end-user experiences on a global scale. Reporting to the Manager of Finance Technology, you’ll strengthen a newly implemented platform spanning Financials, Expenses, Procurement, and Prism/Accounting Center, connect business strategy with secure technical architecture, and help guide the platform roadmap. This role offers the opportunity to solve complex challenges and turn emerging Workday capabilities into practical business value.

What You'll Do:

• Enterprise integrations: Own design, development, configuration, testing, deployment, documentation, and support of inbound and outbound integrations across Workday and other enterprise systems. Use Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Core Connectors, Workday Web Services, REST/SOAP APIs, and Orchestrate for data transformations, mappings, and automated workflows.
• Workday Extend applications: Lead end-to-end delivery of custom applications, pages, user experiences, and business logic using Workday Extend, native security, business processes, and audit trails. Develop scalable application patterns that accelerate delivery and improve end-user experience.
• Security and identity: Manage integration and tenant security, including Integration System Users (ISU), Integration System Security Groups (ISSG), domain permissions, role-based access, and encryption standards.
• Data and reporting: Apply expertise in Workday business objects, data models, system architecture, configuration, and data loading. Build advanced reports, calculated fields, and Report-as-a-Service (RaaS) solutions for escalated needs; oversee data conversions and downstream data warehouse pipelines.
• Business partnership and Agile delivery: Partner with colleagues across Financials, Expenses, Procurement, Prism/Accounting Center, HR, and IT to translate requirements into technical specifications. Lead backlog refinement, prioritization, estimation, sprint planning, and iterative delivery; coordinate vendors and Workday feature or functionality cases while balancing strategic initiatives, technical debt, enhancements, and support.
• Quality and releases: Define the quality assurance strategy with product leads and analysts. Coordinate integration and security testing, business user acceptance and validation, tenant updates, and releases; assess Workday upgrade and cross-application enhancement impacts.
• Production reliability: Serve as a tier 2 escalation point for high-priority and critical incidents. Resolve integration failures, mapping and delivery errors, and configuration issues; lead root cause analysis and align ticket, change, and enhancement classification and priorities with business and functional leads.

What We're Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• Four or more years of combined hands-on Workday integration architecture and development experience with Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Web Services, REST/SOAP APIs, and RaaS, including custom application and automated workflow development using Workday Extend and Orchestrate.
• Strong proficiency in Workday Extend architecture, application lifecycle, security, user experience, and platform capabilities, with experience delivering enterprise applications.
• Proficiency in SQL, JSON, XML, and XSLT; advanced knowledge of enterprise integration patterns, data transformations, and API-based solutions.
• Strong understanding of Workday business objects and data models, calculated fields, advanced reporting, application configuration, data loading and conversion, and integration security.
• Experience defining scalable technical architecture, reusable frameworks, engineering standards, and best practices, with experience in AWS or Azure, CI/CD pipelines, API gateways, distributed data or identity systems, monitoring, automation, and AI-assisted development.
• Ability to gather, analyze, and document business requirements, translate them into secure technical designs, and coordinate delivery across business teams, technology partners, and vendors. Communicate clearly with technical and nontechnical audiences and influence stakeholders.
• Experience leading technical initiatives with Agile delivery skills spanning backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning, prioritization, and continuous improvement.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, including independently resolving integration and configuration issues and collaborating on complex incidents, testing, and releases.
• Strongly preferred: Workday Integration or Workday Extend certifications.

About AB We are a leading global investment management firm offering high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional clients, retail investors, and private-wealth clients in major markets around the globe. With over 4,000 employees across 57 locations operating in 26 countries and jurisdictions, our ambition is simple: to be the most trusted investment firm in the world. We realize that it's our people who give us a competitive advantage and drive success in the market, and our goal is to create an inclusive culture that rewards hard work.

Our culture of intellectual curiosity and collaboration creates an environment where you can thrive and do your best work. Whether you're producing thought-provoking research, identifying compelling investment opportunities, infusing new technologies into our business or providing thoughtful advice to our clients, we are fully invested in you. If you're ready to challenge your limits and empower your career, join us!

All are encouraged to apply. AB does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status or any other basis that is prohibited by applicable law. AB’s policies and practices seek to ensure that employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants based solely on job-related criteria.

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