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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Workday Technical Lead - **Company:** AllianceBernstein Corporation - **Location:** Nashville, TN, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Application Configuration Access Protocols, Application Frameworks, Application Lifecycle Management, Business Logic, Audit Trail, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing Security, Continuous Integration, Data Conversion, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Transformation, Data Warehousing, Distributed Data Store, Internet Security, JSON, Prism (Software), Scrum Methodology, Workday Integrations, SQL Databases, Systems Architecture, User Environment Management, Web Services, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), Enterprise Application Integration, Enterprise Software Applications, SOAPAPI, Advanced Reports, Technical Debt, Sap Business Objects, Information Technology, Workday Studio, EIB, Api Design, Api Gateway, Workday - **Published:** November 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2df8b193d6205745 ## About the Role * 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. ## Description 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., * 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.