Workday AI Solutions Engineer: Extend & Automate HR

Cardinal Health; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 125,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off plan

401k savings plan

HSA

Job summary

Cardinal Health seeks a Workday AI Solutions Engineer to translate complex HCM needs into AI-enabled Workday Extend solutions. You will partner with HR and tech teams to design, build, test, and deploy AI-powered workflows, integrations, and intuitive experiences for employees and managers.

The role requires deep Workday technical expertise, strong HCM process knowledge, and the ability to evaluate options based on value, feasibility, and security.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting Workday Extend applications in a production environment preferred.
• Strong technical understanding of the Workday platform, including business process configuration, security, reporting, calculated fields, data sources, tenant configuration, and integration architecture preferred.
• Experience with Workday integration technologies such as REST and SOAP APIs, Workday Studio, EIBs, Cloud Connect, Workday Orchestrate, or event-driven integrations preferred.
• Proven ability to translate HCM business challenges into practical technical solutions, with experience supporting one or more areas such as Recruiting, Compensation, Talent, Payroll, Core HCM, Benefits, Time, or Absence preferred.
• Experience evaluating solution alternatives and clearly communicating technical feasibility, implementation complexity, risks, dependencies, and expected business value preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partners with HR leaders and functional teams to identify, evaluate, and prioritize opportunities to improve HCM processes through Workday Extend, Workday AI capabilities, agents, integrations, and workflow automation.
• Design, build, test, deploy, and support Workday Extend applications that simplify complex HR processes and provide intuitive experiences for employees, managers, and HR teams.
• Evaluate and implement Workday-delivered AI capabilities, Sana experiences, delivered agents, and custom agents based on business value, technical feasibility, security, and readiness for adoption.
• Develop proofs of concept and rapidly iterate with business stakeholders, moving validated solutions into secure, supportable, and scalable production implementations.
• Apply a strong understanding of Workday business processes, security, data models, reporting, APIs, and integrations to ensure Extend and AI solutions operate effectively within the broader Workday architecture.
• Design and implement integrations and orchestrations across Workday and third-party platforms using REST and SOAP APIs, Workday Orchestrate, Workday Studio, EIBs, and other appropriate integration technologies.
• Configure and manage permissions, domain security, business process security, authentication, and agent access in partnership with Workday Security, HR, Privacy, Legal, and enterprise technology teams.
• Establish technical standards and reusable design patterns for Workday Extend and AI solutions, including development, testing, deployment, monitoring, documentation, and production support.
• Monitor solution adoption, application performance, API consumption, agent activity, errors, and business outcomes to improve reliability, usability, and value.
• Stay current on Workday releases, platform capabilities, developer tools, AI offerings, and marketplace solutions. Assess their potential value and recommend practical adoption opportunities.
• Communicate solution options, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Promote responsible AI practices, including appropriate human oversight, data protection, transparency, security, testing, and ongoing monitoring.

Skills

Workday Extend

Workday AI

REST APIs

SOAP APIs

Security & Data Privacy

HCM processes

Integration architecture

Agent workflows

Cloud Connect

Workday Studio

Tools

Workday Extend

Workday Studio

EIBs

APIs (REST/SOAP)

Job description

Cardinal Health seeks a Workday AI Solutions Engineer to translate complex HCM needs into AI-enabled Workday Extend solutions. You will partner with HR and tech teams to design, build, test, and deploy AI-powered workflows, integrations, and intuitive experiences for employees and managers.

The role requires deep Workday technical expertise, strong HCM process knowledge, and the ability to evaluate options based on value, feasibility, and security.