Workday Platform Integration Specialist

McKesson; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a Workday Platform Integration Specialist to design, develop, maintain, and support integrations across the Workday ecosystem and connected enterprise applications. The role emphasizes strong technical execution, governance, and audit readiness for SOX-related activities.

The successful candidate will work with EIB, Core Connectors, REST and SOAP APIs, XML/XSLT, and Workday Web Services to deliver end-to-end integrations while ensuring security and compliance across systems

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of Workday experience.
• Minimum 3 years of Workday integration development experience.
• Hands-on experience with EIB and Core Connectors.
• Experience with REST and SOAP APIs.
• Experience integrating Workday with Payroll, Finance, Identity Management, and external vendor systems.
• Full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) experience.
• Experience supporting governance, controls, audit activities, or SOX-related processes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and support Workday integrations.
• Develop reports, calculated fields, and data transformations for integrations.
• Troubleshoot integration failures and data discrepancies.
• Monitor production integrations and coordinate issue resolution.
• Participate in Workday releases and deployments.
• Maintain technical documentation and data mappings.
• Collaborate with security, IAM, infrastructure, and vendor teams.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

EIB

Core Connectors

REST APIs

SOAP APIs

XML/XSLT

Job description

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve - we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow's health today, we want to hear from you.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Workday Platform Integration Specialist to design, develop, maintain, and support integrations across the Workday ecosystem and connected enterprise applications. The ideal candidate will have strong hands‑on experience with Workday integration technologies, APIs, enterprise security, monitoring, and production support. In addition to core integration responsibilities, this role serves as the primary technical point of contact for SOX-related activities involving Workday integrations, supporting governance, audit readiness, compliance requirements, and operational controls. The successful candidate combines strong technical expertise with a controls-oriented mindset, ensuring integrations are reliable, secure, well documented, appropriately governed, and audit ready.

Key Responsibilities

Workday Integration

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and support integrations between Workday and internal and external applications.
• Develop solutions utilizing Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, RaaS, Workday Web Services, REST APIs, SOAP APIs, XML/XSLT, and related Workday integration technologies.
• Develop and maintain custom reports, calculated fields, and data transformations required to support integration requirements.
• Troubleshoot integration failures, authentication issues, data discrepancies, and scheduled‑job failures.
• Monitor production integrations and coordinate timely resolution of issues.
• Participate in Workday releases, regression testing, integration testing, and production deployments.
• Maintain technical documentation, integration inventories, support procedures, and detailed data mappings.
• Partner with business, security, IAM, infrastructure, and third‑party vendor teams to deliver end‑to‑end solutions.

Integration Security & Governance

• Ensure integrations comply with enterprise architecture, security, development, and change management standards.
• Support governance of Integration System Users (ISUs), Integration Security Groups, service accounts, credentials, certificates, and authentication mechanisms.
• Apply secure integration patterns, including OAuth 2.0 and API‑based authentication.
• Participate in security reviews and technical assessments.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to simplify integrations, improve monitoring, and reduce technical debt.

SOX & Integration Controls

• Serve as the primary integration‑team contact for SOX‑related activities and controls.
• Partner with Internal Controls, Audit, Security, and Compliance teams to ensure effective governance and policy adherence.
• Maintain documentation and inventory of SOX‑relevant integrations, service accounts, scheduled jobs, and supporting controls.
• Support monitoring, exception management, and remediation activities.
• Ensure development, testing, approval, and deployment processes comply with applicable SOX requirements.
• Support periodic access reviews, privileged access reviews, and production change reviews.
• Identify and help remediate integration‑related control gaps.

Audit & Compliance Support

• Coordinate responses to Internal Audit, External Audit, Internal Controls, Information Security, and Compliance stakeholders.
• Participate in walkthroughs and explain integration architecture, monitoring, security controls, and change management processes.
• Collect and maintain audit evidence supporting control testing activities.
• Maintain traceability between controls and supporting approvals, testing results, deployment records, incidents, and system reports.
• Support remediation efforts related to audit observations and control deficiencies.
• Promote sustainable, year‑round audit readiness practices.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of Workday experience.
• Minimum 3 years of Workday integration development experience.
• Hands‑on experience with: Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)
• Core Connectors
• REST APIs
• SOAP APIs
• XML/XSLT
• Experience integrating Workday with Payroll, Finance, Identity Management, and external vendor systems.
• Full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) experience.
• Experience supporting governance, controls, audit activities, or SOX‑related processes.
• Understanding of privileged access controls, change management controls, and audit requirements.
• Experience supporting audit responses, evidence collection, or governance reviews.
• Strong