Senior Workday Engineer — HCM, Payroll & Integrations

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 129,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a hands-on Senior Workday Platform Engineer to own the Workday platform across HCM, Payroll, Recruiting, Prism Analytics, Illuminate, and integrations.

You will configure, develop, and operate within Workday while collaborating with HR, Payroll, Finance, and IT stakeholders to own technical platform layer configuration, integrations, security architecture, governance, and release discipline.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands‑on Workday technical experience.
• Workday Pro certifications (HCM, Integrations, Security, Prism).
• Strong experience building Workday integrations (EIB, Studio, APIs).
• Deep expertise in security configuration, business process framework design, and reporting.
• Experience with Prism Analytics.
• Exposure to Workday Extend.
• High documentation skills with solid understanding of ITGC controls & Change management policies.

Responsibilities

• Own technical execution across Workday HCM, Payroll, Recruiting, Prism Analytics, and Illuminate.
• Translate business requirements into phased technical delivery plans.
• Manage sandbox strategy, tenant lifecycle, and biannual release readiness.
• Configure HCM and Recruiting modules; build advanced reports and calculated fields.
• Leverage Workday Extend to design and build lightweight custom applications.
• Maintain scalable security models and governance standards.
• Build and maintain integrations (EIB, Studio, REST/SOAP APIs, RaaS).
• Integrate with ERP, identity providers, benefits carriers, and third‑party systems.
• Ensure secure, reusable integration frameworks with monitoring and error‑handling discipline.
• Implement and manage Workday Prism Analytics datasets and dashboards.
• Enable Workday Illuminate capabilities and intelligent workflows.
• Drive automation while maintaining audit and compliance standards.
• Own Workday security architecture and least‑privilege access models.
• Implement enhanced logging and monitoring for sensitive data access.
• Ensure encryption in transit and at rest across integrations and reporting.
• Enforce non‑production data masking and scrubbing practices.
• Support SOX, GDPR, and HIPAA compliance requirements.
• This role owns platform configuration, integrations, and technical governance.

Skills

Workday technical

Workday integrations

Security architecture

Governance

Release management

Workday Prism Analytics

Workday Extend

ITGC controls

Documentation

Stakeholder governance

Education

Workday Pro certifications

Tools

EIB

Studio

REST/SOAP APIs

RaaS

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a hands-on Senior Workday Platform Engineer to own the Workday platform across HCM, Payroll, Recruiting, Prism Analytics, Illuminate, and integrations.

You will configure, develop, and operate within Workday while collaborating with HR, Payroll, Finance, and IT stakeholders to own technical platform layer configuration, integrations, security architecture, governance, and release discipline.