Senior Workday Extend AI Solutions Architect

Workday; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday Extend Services Consultant designs, develops, and deploys custom AI agents and Workday Extend applications for customers. These solutions run alongside Workday’s HR, Financial Management, Student Information Systems and Delivered Agents, using the Workday Agent System of Record for centralized governance, lifecycle management, and security.

We are looking for professionals with Workday experience who are passionate about customer success, delivering inspired applications and agents, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with Workday HCM, Financials or Student domain.
• 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 and agentic apps directly on core systems.
• Architectural understanding of defining decision scopes, prompt engineering, and orchestrating agents across multiple systems.
• Demonstrated experience defining agent capabilities and integrating them over MCP or using Agent-Ready Tools.
• Extensive knowledge of web service technologies (REST, SOAP, JSON, XML) and authentication/authorization methods (OAuth, JWT, SAML, X.509).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy custom AI agents and Workday Extend applications for customers.
• Collaborate with customers to craft innovative agentic workflows and guardrails.
• Lead discovery sessions to assemble requirements and define agent objectives.
• Leverage Workday Developer Agent and MCP-compatible tools to build extensions.
• Create maintainable, flexible, and efficient technical designs and explain complex concepts clearly.

Skills

Workday HCM/Financials/Student domain

Data migration / integration

Requirements gathering / solution

Software Architecture & Design

AI agent governance & monitoring

OAuth / JWT / SAML / WS-Security

Tools

Workday MCP tools

Workday Developer Agent

REST

SOAP

JSON

XML

OAuth

JWT

SAML

X.509

Job description

Workday Extend Services Consultant designs, develops, and deploys custom AI agents and Workday Extend applications for customers. These solutions run alongside Workday’s HR, Financial Management, Student Information Systems and Delivered Agents, using the Workday Agent System of Record for centralized governance, lifecycle management, and security.

We are looking for professionals with Workday experience who are passionate about customer success, delivering inspired applications and agents, and