Senior AI Agent Architect — Extend Services

Workday, Inc.; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. in Boston seeks a Workday Extend Services Consultant to design, develop, and deploy custom AI agents and Extend applications beside Workday’s core modules. You’ll work directly with customers to craft agentic workflows, lead discovery, and establish guardrails for AI actions.

You will use MCP-compatible tools to select capabilities, build extensions, and review designs for scalability and security, driving customer success and deployment breakthroughs.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with Workday HCM, Financials or Student domain experience.
• 7+ years of experience with data migration, integration development, report building, or software development.
• 7+ years of experience with technical consulting, requirements gathering, or solution design.
• 3+ years of experience with Software Architecture & Design. Working knowledge of building custom AI agents on core systems.
• Experience defining agent capabilities and integrating over MCP or using Agent-Ready Tools.
• Extensive knowledge of web service technologies (REST, SOAP, JSON, XML) and auth methods (OAuth, JWT, WS-Security, SAML, X.509).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy custom AI agents and Extend applications.
• Collaborate with customers to craft agentic workflows and solutions.
• Lead discovery sessions to assemble requirements, define objectives, and guardrails.
• Leverage Workday Developer Agent and MCP-compatible tools for capabilities and resources.
• Review technical designs for maintainability, flexibility, and efficiency.

Skills

Workday HCM

Data migration

Integration development

Software architecture

Agent technology

Web services

OAuth/JWT

Requirements gathering

Tools

MCP-compatible tools

Workday Agent

Job description

Workday, Inc. in Boston seeks a Workday Extend Services Consultant to design, develop, and deploy custom AI agents and Extend applications beside Workday’s core modules. You’ll work directly with customers to craft agentic workflows, lead discovery, and establish guardrails for AI actions.

You will use MCP-compatible tools to select capabilities, build extensions, and review designs for scalability and security, driving customer success and deployment breakthroughs.