Role & responsibilities

- Own the end-to-end architecture and technical design of Workday Extend applications, integrations, and supporting technology solutions.

- Define scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable application architecture, integration architecture, data flows, API strategies, and technical standards.

- Architect and lead the development of complex Workday Extend applications using TypeScript/JavaScript, Workday APIs, and Extend frameworks.

- Architect enterprise Workday integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, RaaS, REST APIs, SOAP Web Services, and Workday Web Services.

- Evaluate business requirements and determine the appropriate solution across Workday configuration, Extend, integrations, APIs, AI, cloud services, and third-party platforms.

- Establish architectural patterns and reusable frameworks for Workday Extend applications and integrations to support scalability, extensibility, security, and long-term maintainability.

- Provide technical leadership for the complete application lifecycle, including architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, release management, and production support.

- Develop solutions that leverage AI and Generative AI to enable intelligent automation, enhanced user experiences, decision support, and innovative business capabilities within the Workday ecosystem.

- Assess and utilize AWS cloud services where required to support application components, APIs, integrations, data processing, AI capabilities, and enterprise workloads.

- Define and govern API, integration, security, authentication, authorization, error-handling, monitoring, logging, and performance strategies.

- Partner with enterprise architects, business stakeholders, functional leads, security teams, cloud teams,



and engineering teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise technology standards and business objectives.

- Lead technical discovery, architecture workshops, proof-of-concepts, technology evaluations, and solution estimations for complex business initiatives.

- Review and approve technical designs, application architecture, integration patterns, and development approaches to ensure adherence to architectural standards.

- Identify technical risks, dependencies, scalability concerns, and opportunities for modernization, and define appropriate mitigation strategies.

- Provide hands-on technical guidance when required while leading and mentoring senior developers and engineering teams.

- Establish development and engineering best practices, including code quality, version control, CI/CD, testing, observability, documentation, and deployment standards.

- Drive continuous improvement of the Workday technical landscape by evaluating new capabilities across Workday Extend, Workday Integration, Orchestrate, AI/GenAI, AWS, APIs, and emerging technologies.

Preferred candidate profile

- 8 to 10 years of overall IT/software development experience.

- 4+ years of hands-on Workday Extend experience.

- Workday certification in Extend

- Strong hands-on experience with Workday Integration Frameworks.

- Strong experience with Workday Studio.

- Experience with EIB, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, and Workday Web Services.

- Solid knowledge of Workday REST/SOAP APIs.

- Experience with RaaS, Workday Reports, Calculated Fields, and Business Processes.

- Strong understanding of Workday HCM architecture and Workday data model.

- Experience designing and developing enterprise-grade integrations.

- Working knowledge of AWS cloud services.

- Exposure to AI/ML and Generative AI technologies.

- Strong understanding of API-based and event-driven integration architectures.

- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

📌 Workday Extend Developer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Okta
📍 Bengaluru