Lead Software Engineer - Workday Integrations

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Lead Software Engineer - Workday Integrations

Overview
Are you passionate about improving the working lives of thousands of people by providing them with better tools and experiences? Do you thrive on automation, simplification, and solving complex problems that don’t have straightforward solutions? If you enjoy identifying and resolving system risks while connecting business needs with technical solutions, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact.
As part of a forward-thinking team driving change on a large scale, you'll play a key role in enhancing our People & Capability Technology ecosystem and promoting a culture of technical excellence. You’ll bring a focus on process automation and leverage your expertise to create innovative solutions. By keeping business priorities in focus, you will collaborate with a dynamic team that thrives on teamwork and a shared commitment to success.
As a Lead Workday Integration Developer, you will:
• Serve as the subject matter expert for a large ecosystem of Workday integrations.
• Lead the design, development, testing, and delivery of new Workday Integrations.
• Create detailed integration specifications, field mappings, and designs to support delivery of new integration capabilities.
• Troubleshoot integration issues and provide sustainable, long-term solutions in collaboration with internal and external teams.
• Research integration failures, perform root cause analyses, and develop actionable plans to drive Workday strategy forward.
• Design and build integrations, architecture, and workflows between core enterprise applications.
Role:
The Lead Software Engineer, Workday Integrations will participate in Workday integration technical designs and ensure successful delivery of Workday Integration solutions. In this role, you will:
• Manage the design, implementation, and delivery of Workday integration projects.
• Collaborating with Workday functional teams to translate business requirements into integrated Workday platform solutions.
• Leading the integrations workstream of projects by scoping, gathering requirements, documenting, implementing, and supporting solutions using the Workday integration platform toolset.
• Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining custom applications using the Workday Extend platform and related technologies (e.g., Java, XML, XSLT, SOAP, REST, JavaScript, Python).
Qualifications:
• 5+ years of hands-on experience building and supporting Workday integrations.
• Strong experience with Workday Studio, connectors (Core Connectors, PECI/PICOF, WECI), EIBs, Custom Reports, BIRT, and document transformation.
• Expertise in Workday Studio, SOAP API, REST API, Import API patterns.
• Deep passion for Workday technology, automation, and business problem-solving.
• Demonstrated leadership, with the ability to work both collaboratively and independently in an Agile environment.
• Experience in designing and developing complex integrations using web service technologies (SOAP, REST, WSDL, XML, XSLT).
All About You:
• Ability to analyze existing integration landscapes to identify technical debt related to functionality, performance, error handling, and scalability.
• Deep knowledge of Workday Integration toolsets including Workday Connectors, EIBs,Studio, SOAP API and REST API
• Ability to translate business requirements to system configuration.
• Experience documenting business processes, procedures, scripts, and workflows.
• Able to communicate with both technical teams and business functional leaders.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and documentation skills
• Proven ability to manage complex projects and meet deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to changing priorities and business needs.
• Experience with Workday Extend, JavaScript, and Python
• Experience in an Agile development environment.
• Workday Certification is a plus

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.