Senior Workday Integrations Engineer

Western Governors University•Salt Lake City, UT

About The Position

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career. Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. The Senior Workday Integrations Engineer (Financials) serves as a key technical leader responsible for the architecture, development, and optimization of Workday Financial integrations. This role focuses on building, maintaining, and enhancing interfaces that support critical finance business functions — including Procurement, Supplier Accounts, Banking, Accounting, and Reporting. The engineer partners closely with Finance, Accounting, and IT teams to ensure seamless data flow across Workday and third-party systems, ensuring accuracy, security, and compliance. They provide technical leadership across integration initiatives, mentor junior developers, and establish best practices that improve system performance and scalability.

Requirements

Deep understanding of Workday Financials and its core data model — including Suppliers, Spend Categories, Cost Centers, Companies, Ledgers, and Accounting Journals.
Hands-on expertise with Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors (Supplier, Journal, Banking, and Expense).
Proficiency in Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST), XSLT/XML, and data transformation logic.
Experience with bank file integrations (ACH, BAI2, Positive Pay, Payment File Transmission).
Strong knowledge of Workday Accounting setup and mapping structures (Company, Ledger Account, Spend Category, Cost Center, etc.).
Familiarity with Workday Financial Reports (RaaS, Composite, Matrix) to support outbound data feeds.
Experience managing SFTP, OAuth2, and API security frameworks.
Skilled at integrating with third-party financial systems such as Coupa, Concur, NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or banking platforms.
Excellent debugging, monitoring, and performance-tuning skills for integrations in Production.
Strong documentation, collaboration, and communication skills across technical and business teams.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
5+ years of Workday Integration experience with at least 3 years focused on Financials.
Demonstrated expertise in Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIB, and Web Services.
Workday Integration or Workday Financials Certification strongly preferred.
Proven success integrating Workday Financials with external banking, payment, and ERP systems.
Experience in Workday Report Writer and RaaS for integration reporting.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Workday Financials business processes, including accounting journal creation, supplier invoicing, and expense processing.
Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodology and tools such as JIRA and Git.
Prior experience supporting Workday Financials implementations, tenant migrations, or new module rollouts.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and deploy Workday integrations supporting Financials modules such as: Supplier Accounts and Invoicing, Procurement and Purchase Orders, Banking and Cash Management, Accounting Journals Expenses, and Payroll Accounting, Financial Reporting and Consolidation
Lead the design and architecture of complex inbound and outbound integrations using Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connectors, REST/SOAP APIs, and XSLT.
Collaborate with Finance leadership to translate business requirements into scalable integration solutions that automate financial workflows and improve data accuracy.
Develop secure, efficient, and reusable integration frameworks for journal loads, supplier updates, spend category reporting, and payment interfaces.
Maintain and troubleshoot critical integrations between Workday and external systems such as ERP, payment gateways, expense tools, banks, and third-party vendors.
Ensure compliance with data governance, audit, and security policies for all financial data integrations.
Support Workday release testing and manage regression testing for Financials integrations.
Create technical documentation for design specifications, mapping documents, and integration support guides.
Mentor junior engineers and provide peer reviews for code and configuration.
Stay current on Workday Financials updates and identify opportunities for automation and performance improvements.

Benefits

medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
health savings account and flexible spending account
basic and voluntary life insurance
disability coverage
accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
legal and identity theft coverage
retirement savings plan
wellbeing program
discounted WGU tuition
flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave