HRIS-Technical Practice Lead

Technical Practice Lead, Workday Integrations & Reporting

Position Scope and Organizational Impact

The Technical Practice Lead, Workday Integrations & Reporting, serves as the senior technical authority responsible for architecting, building, and optimizing an organization’s Workday integration and reporting ecosystem. This role leads a team of 2–3 Workday technical professionals focused on delivering scalable, secure, and high-performing integrations, APIs, reports, dashboards, and data solutions that support HR, Payroll, Accounting, Finance, and broader business operations.

As both a hands-on Workday technical expert and a people leader, the Practice Lead drives the Workday technical roadmap, establishes governance standards, and delivers innovative solutions leveraging Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Orchestrate, Workday Reporting, Prism, and/or Extend. The role partners closely with HRIS, IT, Finance, and external vendors to enhance data quality, automation, and business decision-making.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Workday technical analysts and specialists, ensuring high performance and professional growth

• Define integration and reporting architecture standards, coding practices, documentation guidelines, and governance protocols

• Own the Workday technical roadmap, prioritizing integration performance, data flow optimization, reporting scalability, and adoption of new capabilities

• Establish quality assurance practices for integrations, reports, security, and data pipelines

• Lead the requirements gathering, design, build, testing, deployment, and support of Workday integrations using Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, REST/SOAP APIs, Document Transformation, and Orchestrate

• Oversee integration lifecycle management including monitoring, auditing, error handling, optimization, and performance tuning

• Translate complex business and technical requirements into scalable, robust technical solutions

• Manage cross-functional integration projects, ensuring timelines, dependencies, risks, and deliverables are effectively controlled

• Lead the enterprise reporting strategy leveraging Report Writer, Calculated Fields, Advanced/Composite Reporting, BIRT, Dashboards, and Discovery Boards

• Drive adoption of Workday Prism for data blending, pipelines, transformations, and large-scale analytics

• Partner with HR, Payroll, and Finance to deliver real-time insights, compliance reporting, and operational dashboards

• Ensure strong data governance through controls, audits, validations, and secure data movement across systems

• Independently manage projects, including cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders

• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex integration, reporting, or data issues

• Foster strong partnerships across technical and non-technical teams as well as third-party vendors

• Manage vendor relationships and ensure seamless connectivity with downstream or upstream systems

• Support Workday biannual releases with technical impact assessments and integration validation

• Champion continuous improvement, automation, and modernization of Workday technical capabilities

• Perform other duties as assigned

Education and Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field

• 7+ years of Workday technical experience, including 5+ years of hands-on integration and reporting development

• 3+ years of people-leadership experience (managing engineers, analysts, or technical consultants)

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional projects and delivering high-quality technical solutions

• Proven ability to implement governance, standardization, and scalable technical frameworks

• Advanced hands-on proficiency with:

  • Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, Document Transformation, Orchestrate

  • Workday Reporting (Report Writer, Calculated Fields, Composite/Advanced Reports, BIRT, Dashboards, Discovery Boards)

• Strong understanding of Workday data structures and HCM/Payroll data models

• Experience with integration monitoring, error handling, security, data validations, and performance tuning

• Working knowledge of SQL, data lakes, ETL patterns, and cross-system data flows

• Familiarity with middleware technologies (e.g., Boomi, MuleSoft, Azure/AWS integration tools) is a plus

• Experience with Prism Analytics (pipelines, transformations, external data ingestion) is a plus

• Experience developing or supporting Workday Extend applications is a plus

Job Details

Job Title: Technical Practice Lead, Workday Integrations & Reporting
Job Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Classification: Full-Time, Exempt, Salaried
Reports To: Director, HRIS