Engineering Manager, Workday

SoFi Tech Solutions • San Francisco, CA

1d • $128,000 - $220,000

About The Position

As Engineering Manager of the Workday Platform at SoFi Tech Solutions, you will lead a team of integration engineers responsible for designing, building, and supporting the data integrations connecting Workday with financial, HR, payroll, and cloud platforms. You will partner with People Operations, Finance, Enterprise Engineering, Security, and external vendors to develop technical roadmaps, maintain architectural standards, and deliver reliable integrations at scale.

The role combines deep Workday technical expertise with people-first leadership. You will foster an inclusive environment, support engineers’ growth, remove operational obstacles, safeguard data integrity, and guide the team through complex technical challenges. The position covers Workday HCM, Financial Management, Payroll, and the broader Workday technical ecosystem, balancing hands-on technical leadership with team management.

You will define the platform’s technical direction and engineering practices, deliver secure and maintainable integrations, and oversee production support, incident response, vendor integrations, and semi-annual release testing. The role also involves evaluating capabilities such as Workday Extend and Prism Analytics for potential business value. The posted US base compensation range is $128,000–$220,000, with possible bonus and/or long-term incentives. All roles are eligible for competitive benefits; details are provided through the company’s benefits page.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 4 years of experience, or a master’s degree and at least 3 years of experience, in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• Extensive hands-on experience architecting, developing, and supporting Workday HCM, Financial Management, and Payroll, including business processes, configuration, security, reporting, and production support.
• Experience leading and mentoring Workday engineers, establishing engineering standards, conducting design and code reviews, and promoting technical excellence.
• Strong understanding of Workday architecture, extensibility, technical roadmaps, release management, and emerging capabilities.
• Expertise with Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Core Connectors, Workday Web Services, REST/SOAP APIs, and integration design patterns.
• Experience building secure, scalable, and resilient integrations.
• Experience with Workday Extend and platform extensibility to build custom applications, user experiences, and workflows while avoiding unnecessary customization.
• Familiarity with Workday AI capabilities, including Workday Illuminate, and the ability to identify practical opportunities for productivity improvement, automation, and streamlined Finance and HR operations.
• Understanding of AI security, role-based access, data privacy, human oversight, auditability, and governance for enterprise HR and financial systems.
• Experience with Workday Report Writer, calculated fields, dashboards, analytics, and data extraction; understanding of Workday data models and integration with enterprise data platforms.
• Deep understanding of Workday security architecture, domain and business process security policies, segregation of duties, audit controls, and SOX compliance.
• Experience with middleware and integration platforms such as MuleSoft, event-driven architecture, API management, data transformation, and secure enterprise integration patterns.
• Ability to partner with Finance, HR, Payroll, Security, Data, and enterprise architecture teams to turn business requirements into scalable, secure, maintainable solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-alignment skills, including the ability to explain technical complexity to diverse audiences.

Nice To Haves

• At least 6 years of hands-on Workday integration development experience and at least 2 years of direct people management or formal team leadership experience.
• Practical experience managing integrations with payroll providers such as ADP and financial ledgers.
• Familiarity with Workday Extend, Workday Prism Analytics, or orchestration middleware.
• Active Workday Integration Certification, such as Workday Studio, Core Connectors, or Integrations.
• Understanding of fintech regulatory environments, SOX controls, and data security frameworks such as OAuth, SAML, and encryption.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor an engineering team responsible for Workday HCM, Financial Management, Payroll, and the broader Workday technical ecosystem.
• Define and execute the Workday technical roadmap, architecture standards, engineering principles, and platform modernization strategy in alignment with business priorities and enterprise architecture.
• Translate department priorities into sprint goals, integration specifications, and project roadmaps, managing dependencies and delivery timelines.
• Design, develop, and maintain secure, resilient, and reusable integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, APIs, and enterprise integration platforms such as MuleSoft.
• Establish standards for technical design, peer reviews, automated testing, documentation, deployment, monitoring, incident management, and production support.
• Own production support and incident management for integrations; guide root-cause investigations, conduct blameless post-mortems, and drive preventative improvements.
• Manage third-party vendor relationships and service integrations, ensuring service-level agreements and data privacy compliance.
• Lead semi-annual Workday release testing and regression cycles, and identify capabilities such as Workday Extend or Prism Analytics that may deliver business value.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits; further details are available through the company’s benefits page.
• The role may be eligible for a bonus and/or long-term incentives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager