Engineering Manager

What you'll do

• Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team responsible for the Workday HCM, Financial Management, and Payroll ecosystems.
• Define and execute the Workday technical roadmap, architecture standards, and platform modernization strategy.
• Translate department priorities into clear sprint goals, integration specifications, and project roadmaps.
• Design and maintain secure, reusable integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, and MuleSoft.
• Establish standards for technical design, peer reviews, automated testing, documentation, and production support.
• Own production support and incident management, including root-cause investigations and blameless post-mortems.
• Manage third-party vendor relationships and service integrations to ensure SLA and data privacy compliance.
• Lead semi-annual Workday release testing and regression cycles to identify new business-value capabilities.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s Degree + 4+ years of experience OR Master’s Degree + 3+ years of experience in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field.
• Extensive hands-on experience architecting, developing, and supporting Workday HCM, Financial Management, and Payroll.
• Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing Workday engineers and establishing engineering standards.
• Expertise in Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Web Services, and REST/SOAP APIs.
• Experience with Workday Extend and platform extensibility to build custom applications and workflows.
• Strong experience with Workday Report Writer, calculated fields, dashboards, and data extraction.
• Deep understanding of Workday security architecture, SOX compliance, and audit controls.
• Experience with middleware platforms like MuleSoft and event-driven architecture.
• 6+ years of hands-on Workday integration development experience with 2+ years of direct people management (preferred).
• Practical experience managing integrations with payroll providers and financial ledgers (preferred).
• Active Workday Integration Certification (preferred).
• Understanding of fintech regulatory environments and data security frameworks (preferred).