Sr. Workday Technical Lead
AllianceBernstein3 days ago
Nashville, TN, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the design, development, configuration, testing, deployment, documentation, and support of Workday enterprise integrations.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of custom Workday Extend applications, pages, user experiences, business logic, and automated workflows.
- Manage integration and tenant security, including Integration System Users, Integration System Security Groups, domain permissions, role-based access, and encryption standards.
- Build advanced reports, calculated fields, Report-as-a-Service solutions, and oversee data conversions and downstream data warehouse pipelines.
- Translate business requirements into secure technical designs and coordinate delivery across Financials, Expenses, Procurement, Prism/Accounting Center, HR, IT, vendors, and Workday support.
- Lead backlog refinement, prioritization, estimation, sprint planning, releases, quality assurance, testing, user acceptance, and upgrade impact assessments.
- Serve as a tier 2 escalation point for critical incidents and lead root cause analysis for integration and configuration issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- Four or more years of hands-on Workday integration architecture and development experience.
- Experience with Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Web Services, REST/SOAP APIs, RaaS, Workday Extend, and Orchestrate.
- Strong proficiency in Workday Extend architecture, application lifecycle, security, user experience, platform capabilities, and enterprise application delivery.
- Proficiency in SQL, JSON, XML, and XSLT, with advanced knowledge of integration patterns, data transformations, and API-based solutions.
- Strong understanding of Workday business objects, 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.
- Experience with 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 requirements, communicate with technical and nontechnical audiences, and influence stakeholders.
- Experience leading technical initiatives and coordinating backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning, prioritization, testing, and releases.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, incident response, and collaboration skills.
- Workday Integration or Workday Extend certifications are strongly preferred.
About AllianceBernstein
AllianceBernstein is a global investment manager that provides asset management, investment research, and wealth planning for institutions, financial advisors, and private clients. It offers mutual funds, separately managed accounts, ETFs, and private alternatives, earning management and performance fees. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Nashville, it is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: AB) with offices worldwide.