Sr. Lead Engineer, Integration & Automation

Job description

Accountabilities: Define and maintain the enterprise integration architecture across Finance, Revenue, People Technology, Billing, and Go-to-Market, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with engineering standards. Establish and enforce integration design guidelines, coding standards, SLAs, tiering frameworks, monitoring practices, and patterns for error handling, idempotency, retries, alerting, and change management. Lead architecture reviews for new integrations and significant enhancements, making final technical design decisions for complex initiatives. Evaluate integration tools, platforms, and architectural patterns, including build-versus-configure decisions involving iPaaS platforms, native connectors, APIs, and custom development. Audit the existing integration estate, identify technical debt and recurring failure patterns, and develop and execute a prioritized roadmap for technical hardening and modernization. Design, build, optimize, and maintain complex Workday Studio and Workato integrations, including EIB, Core Connectors, Document Transformation, XSLT, multi-step workflows, and major refactoring initiatives. Develop reusable integration components, transformation templates, and shared libraries that improve development speed, consistency, maintainability, and reliability. Build and maintain API-based integrations connecting Workday, Salesforce, Snowflake, Avalara, Workato, and other enterprise platforms using REST, SOAP, JSON, XML, OAuth, and event-driven patterns. Own integration monitoring and alerting, implementing proactive health checks and ensuring failures are identified before they materially affect stakeholders. Lead root cause analysis for critical integration incidents, document post-incident findings, and implement systemic improvements to prevent recurrence. Partner with leadership to recruit, onboard, develop, and retain integration engineering talent across distributed U.S. and international teams. Lead recurring integration grooming sessions to triage, scope, and prioritize new requests before they enter broader cross-functional planning. Serve as the senior escalation point for integration incidents and ensure critical failures receive appropriate root cause analysis and preventive follow-up. Build a culture of documentation, runbook discipline, knowledge sharing, and operational excellence across distributed engineering teams. Partner with leadership to develop and prioritize the AI and automation pipeline based on business impact and organizational value. Identify high-value automation opportunities and ensure production solutions are resilient, documented, monitored, and able to withstand upstream system changes. Act as the senior technical advisor to Finance, HR, Revenue, Billing, People Technology, and Go-to-Market stakeholders. Translate complex integration and architecture concepts into clear, business-oriented recommendations for non-technical audiences. Provide architectural guidance and capacity insights during cross-functional prioritization and planning activities. Requirements: 8+ years of experience in enterprise integration engineering, systems architecture, or senior integration engineering roles. Proven hands-on expertise with Workato or a comparable iPaaS platform such as MuleSoft, Boomi, or Informatica, including designing, building, troubleshooting, and maintaining complex multi-step integrations and error-handling workflows. Advanced hands-on experience with Workday Studio, including EIB, Core Connectors, Document Transformation, and XSLT, with the ability to independently build and troubleshoot complex integrations. Strong command of integration architecture patterns, including REST and SOAP APIs, event-driven and publish/subscribe architectures, data transformation, idempotency, retry mechanisms, and dead-letter handling. Experience developing integrations with platforms such as Salesforce, Workday, Snowflake, or similar enterprise systems. Strong working knowledge of JSON, XML, XSLT, OAuth, API-based integration, and related data transformation technologies. Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership to distributed or offshore engineering teams, including conducting architecture and design reviews, setting technical standards, and developing engineers. Experience establishing or maturing integration governance frameworks, including integration tiers, design standards, SLA models, monitoring, alerting, and change management practices. Ability to independently assess a complex integration estate, identify technical debt and operational risks, prioritize remediation opportunities, and execute a modernization roadmap. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both engineering teams and senior Finance, HR, and business stakeholders. Experience working in a SaaS, technology, or high-growth environment where agility, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration are essential. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience. Workday certification in Studio, Financials, or HCM is a plus. Experience with Salesforce integrations supporting Revenue, Billing, or CPQ workflows is advantageous. Familiarity with SQL and Snowflake for data validation, transformation troubleshooting, and Finance analytics use cases is a plus. Exposure to SOX-compliant environments and related integration documentation, controls, and audit requirements is beneficial. Experience building an integration practice from the ground up or leading a significant integration maturity transformation is a strong advantage. Familiarity with Workday Orchestrate or event-driven automation capabilities within the Workday ecosystem is a plus. Benefits: Competitive base salary ranging from $179,900–$269,900 USD for applicable Zone 1 U.S. locations, including CA, CT, DC, MD, MA, NJ, NY, VA, and WA. Competitive base salary ranging from $168,200–$252,200 USD for other U.S. locations. Annual bonus and equity opportunities as part of the total compensation package. Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, including options with 100% employee premium coverage and substantial dependent coverage. Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options. 401(k) plan with employer matching. Flexible time off and support for autonomous work. Comprehensive onboarding, leadership development, and ongoing learning opportunities. Recognition programs, including peer-nominated awards and employee recognition initiatives. Telehealth resources and access to healthcare services. Parental leave and family support programs. Fertility, surrogacy, and adoption reimbursement programs, including up to $20,000 in eligible fertility services. Maternity support and breast milk shipping resources. Pet insurance, legal advisory services, and financial planning tools. Opportunity to work remotely within the United States. Opportunity to lead high-impact integration and automation initiatives across critical enterprise business functions. Collaborative environment with distributed engineering teams and senior cross-functional stakeholders. Opportunity to influence AI and automation strategy while working with modern enterprise integration technologies. 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Our partner is looking for a Sr. Lead Engineer, Integration & Automation based in the United States. This is a senior technical leadership opportunity to define how critical enterprise systems connect across Finance, Revenue, Billing, People Technology, and Go-to-Market functions. You’ll own the technical vision for a complex integration ecosystem spanning Workday, Workato, Salesforce, Snowflake, and other SaaS platforms. The role combines enterprise architecture, hands-on engineering, technical governance, automation, and team leadership. You’ll establish standards that improve scalability, security, reliability, monitoring, and overall engineering maturity. You’ll also play a central role in advancing AI and automation initiatives and identifying opportunities with meaningful business impact. Working with distributed engineering teams and senior business stakeholders, you’ll serve as both a technical authority and a strategic partner.