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Staff Workday Integration Engineer, Tech Foundations

Airbnb· Talent Systems (BizTech)
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Hybrid (United States)$180k - $225kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff-level Workday integration engineer responsible for defining integration strategy and owning Workday MCP and agentic integrations within Airbnb’s Talent Systems portfolio, ensuring reliable, secure, and scalable HR data flows across global operations.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own Airbnb’s Workday integration architecture standards, patterns, and governance frameworks
  • Lead architectural decisions for complex, high-risk integration initiatives, including global rollouts, payroll runs, benefits open enrollment, and system migrations
  • Evaluate and advise on build-vs-buy decisions, Workday-native-vs-middleware trade-offs, and long-term integration platform strategy
  • Establish reusable integration design patterns, error handling and retry frameworks, and observability standards adopted team-wide
  • Anticipate platform evolution and architect integrations that accommodate Workday’s semi-annual releases with minimal rework
  • Identify and remediate technical debt across the integration landscape: functionality, performance, error handling, and scalability
  • Architect, design, build, and maintain complex inbound and outbound integrations using Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIBs, Document Transforms, and RaaS API endpoints
  • Develop integrations against Workday Web Services (WWS): WSDL interpretation, web service versioning, request/response handling for SOAP and REST
  • Own design and delivery of high-volume integration scenarios: payroll runs, benefits open enrollment, global workforce changes, and multi-country rollouts
  • Own Workday payroll interfaces (PECI, PICOF) and their interaction with third-party payroll providers
  • Build and maintain advanced Custom Reports and Calculated Fields for integration and AI-tool consumption
  • Work within the Business Process Framework, understanding how process events trigger integration flows
  • Build and maintain Workday Extend applications (data models, business logic, UI pages, Extend REST APIs) when Extend is the right tool versus Studio, EIB, or middleware
  • Apply Workday Orchestrate for multi-system workflow coordination where it fits
  • Manage the integration portfolio across Workday’s semi-annual release cycle: assess release notes, lead sandbox testing, deploy to production with rigorous change controls
  • Own the engineering of Airbnb’s Workday MCP server and its tool surface: tool design, per-user OAuth 2.0 authorization, human-in-the-loop gates on write actions, idempotent write contracts, rate and volume guardrails, and audit logging
  • Design and build agentic integrations that let AI assistant plugins and other enterprise LLM tooling read from and act on Workday safely
  • Co-own the Talent Systems AI architecture and governance framework with the Systems Architect
  • Evaluate Workday-native agentic capabilities and emerging HR AI platforms; provide structured build-vs-buy-vs-configure analysis
  • Translate business use cases into AI tool architectures that are operationally feasible, permission-safe, and measurable
  • Instrument AI tooling for usage and cost to inform Workday platform entitlement and licensing decisions
  • Drive operational excellence across the integration portfolio: SLAs, prioritization, and escalation handling
  • Own SLAs for critical integrations and AI tools; establish monitoring, alerting, reconciliation, and runbook standards
  • Drive root cause analysis on integration failures and implement preventative controls
  • Own security, compliance, and governance from the integration and engineering perspective: PII handling, audit controls, data reconciliation for GDPR, SOC 2, SOX
  • Enforce authentication and transport security across all integration surfaces: OAuth 2.0, SAML, PGP/SFTP
  • Assess system impacts and risks when introducing new integrations, AI tools, or platform changes
  • Own tenant deployment strategy: sandbox-to-production promotion, Git-based version control, CI-friendly testing, rollback planning
  • Maintain a strong working understanding of core HR and payroll processes to design integrations and AI tools that reflect real business requirements
  • Understand HR data flows across the enterprise from Workday to downstream systems
  • Proactively surface configuration and upstream data issues and resolve with Systems Architect
  • Bring employee-centric lens to integration and AI tool design
  • Act as technical authority for Workday integrations and HR tooling; mentor engineers; communicate trade-offs and risks
  • Write authoritative Integration Design Documents, MCP tool specifications, and operational runbooks
  • Represent Talent Systems in enterprise architecture forums and vendor discussions; stay updated on Workday roadmap and HR tech trends
  • Communicate constraints, trade-offs, and risks to stakeholders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 9+ years in enterprise tech, software development, or systems integration with 5–6 years hands-on Workday integration development
  • Workday Integration Proficiency (personally written code) including:
  • - Workday Studio: complex multi-step integrations, sub-integrations, custom error handling and fault frameworks, XSLT transformations
  • - Core Connectors and EIBs: worker data, BP events, payroll/benefits outbound connectors; EIB trade-offs; Document Transform
  • - Payroll interfaces: PECI and PICOF with third-party providers
  • - RaaS (Report-as-a-Service): advanced report design, calculated fields, API exposure
  • - Workday Web Services (WWS): WSDL, SOAP/REST, versioning, error handling
  • Workday-Native & Functional Fluency: XSLT/XML/JSON; Java for Studio custom steps
  • Knowledge of Business Process Framework and event-driven integrations
  • Familiarity with HR/Payroll functional configuration across HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Security, Time & Absence
  • REST API design and OAuth 2.0 with user-context
  • Experience with LLM-based tools, AI agents, MCP servers; permission-safe patterns
  • Experience integrating Workday with middleware/iPaaS (MuleSoft, Boomi, Workato)
  • Git-based version control and structured deployment
  • Security & Compliance: OAuth 2.0, SAML, PII handling, audit requirements
  • Experience with Workday semi-annual release cycle
  • Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to communicate complex trade-offs
  • Agile/Scrum experience

Skills

Required:Workday StudioCore Connectors & EIBsPECI & PICOFRaaSWWSXSLT/XML/JSONOAuth 2.0 & SAMLGit & CI/CD
Nice to have:Workday ExtendOrchestrateMiddleware/iPaaS (MuleSoft/Boomi/Workato)

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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