Engineering Manager, Workday
San Francisco · CA - San Francisco · 2+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- San Francisco · CA - San Francisco
About the role
- As the Engineering Manager of Workday Platform at SoFi, you will lead a dedicated team of integration engineers responsible for designing, building, and supporting the core data conduits connecting our Workday ecosystem.
- You will partner closely with People Operations, Finance, Enterprise Engineering, Security, and external vendors to establish technical roadmaps, uphold architectural standards, and deliver reliable data integrations at scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team responsible for Workday HCM, Financial Management, Payroll, and the broader Workday technical ecosystem, balancing hands-on technical leadership with people management
- Define and execute the Workday technical roadmap, architecture standards, engineering principles, and platform modernization strategy aligned with business priorities and enterprise architecture
- Translate department priorities into clear sprint goals, integration specifications, and project roadmaps, ensuring timely delivery while managing operational dependencies
- Design, develop, and maintain secure, resilient, and reusable integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, APIs, and enterprise integration platforms such as MuleSoft
- Establish standards for technical design, peer reviews, automated testing, documentation, deployment, monitoring, incident management, and production support to improve reliability and maintainability
- Own production support and incident management for the integration landscape; guide root-cause investigations, conduct blameless post-mortems, and drive preventative enhancements
- Manage third-party vendor relationships and service integrations (e.g., benefits administrators, financial platforms), ensuring service level agreements (SLAs) and strict data privacy compliance
- Lead semi-annual Workday release testing and regression cycles, proactively identifying new capabilities (such as Workday Extend or Prism Analytics) that bring business value
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree + 4+ Years of Experience OR Master's Degree + 3+ Years of Experience in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
- Extensive hands-on experience architecting, developing, and supporting Workday HCM, Financial Management, and Payroll, including complex business processes, configuration, security, reporting, and production support
- Proven experience leading and mentoring high-performing Workday engineers, establishing engineering standards, conducting design and code reviews, and driving technical excellence across the platform
- Strong understanding of Workday architecture, platform extensibility, technical roadmaps, release management, and emerging capabilities to continuously modernize the enterprise application ecosystem
- Expertise in Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Core Connectors, Workday Web Services, REST/SOAP APIs, and integration design patterns, with experience building secure, scalable, and resilient integrations
- Experience with Workday Extend and platform extensibility capabilities to build custom applications, user experiences, and workflows that address complex business requirements while minimizing unnecessary customization
- Strong experience with Workday Report Writer, calculated fields, dashboards, analytics, and data extraction, with an understanding of Workday data models and integration with enterprise data platforms
- Deep understanding of Workday security architecture, domain and business process security policies, segregation of duties, audit controls, and SOX compliance requirements
- Experience with middleware and integration platforms such as MuleSoft, along with event-driven architecture, API management, data transformation, and secure integration patterns across enterprise applications
- Strong partnership skills with Finance, HR, Payroll, Security, Data, and enterprise architecture teams to translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions
Preferred qualifications
- 6+ years of hands-on Workday integration development experience, with 2+ years of direct people management or formal team leadership experience
- Practical experience managing integrations with payroll providers (e.g., ADP) and financial ledgers
- Familiarity with Workday Extend, Workday Prism Analytics, or orchestration middleware
- Active Workday Integration Certification (e.g., Workday Studio, Core Connectors, or Integrations)
Workplace
- We are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii, Alaska or Puerto Rico at this time.
Skills
- Workday
- Workday HCM
- Workday Studio
- Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)
- Core Connectors
- Workday Web Services
- REST/SOAP APIs
- MuleSoft
- Workday Extend
- Workday Prism Analytics
- Workday Report Writer
- ADP
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