Workday Platform Lead, HR & Payroll Apps

Versant; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Versant seeks a Technical Lead, Core HR Systems to lead the design, development, deployment, and ongoing support of Workday-based HR & Payroll components. This hands-on DevOps leadership role drives scalable solutions for SaaS and custom integrations.

You will partner with Payroll, HR, IT, Product, and Data teams across the business to ensure secure, well-architected HR platforms. The role requires 6+ years in software engineering with solid Workday expertise, and a track record of leading

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years leading medium to large engineering delivery teams (both on and offshore)
• 4+ Year of in-depth experience was a Workday developer with at least one full implementation cycle of Workday HCM while serving in a senior lead developer capacity
• Strong hands-on experience with Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Core Connectors, and Workday APIs leveraging modern authentication protocols
• Experience architecting, developing, and deploying custom solutions with the Workday Extend and/or the Workday Build Ecosystem
• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing data ingestion pipelines into Workday Prism for advanced analytics, reporting, and integrations.
• Experience with Workday Job Scheduling tools and managing a large array of integrations
• Experience configuring Workday’s portal self-service experience including role-based landing pages, worklets, announcements, quick actions, and business processes.
• Proven experience delivering complex enterprise applications implementations with multiple integrations to multiple SaaS platforms.
• Strong experience delivering HR & Payroll solutions, especially within integrating HR Data and Benefits
• Experience leading agile teams and working within CI/CD and DevOps delivery models
• Strong communications skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery for Core HR & Payroll initiatives, from technical design through build, test, deployment, and post-go-live support
• Oversee technical delivery, release planning, and environment management to ensure stability and predictable releases
• Enforce best practices in DevOps, code quality, documentation, and automated testing
• Partner with integration, data, and infrastructure teams to ensure reliable interoperability and data flows
• Monitor platform performance and operational health, driving root-cause resolution and continuous improvement

Skills

Workday development

Workday Studio

EIB

Core Connectors

CI/CD

DevOps

Architectural design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Workday Extend

Workday Build Ecosystem

Workday Prism

Workday API

Job description

Versant seeks a Technical Lead, Core HR Systems to lead the design, development, deployment, and ongoing support of Workday-based HR & Payroll components. This hands-on DevOps leadership role drives scalable solutions for SaaS and custom integrations.

You will partner with Payroll, HR, IT, Product, and Data teams across the business to ensure secure, well-architected HR platforms. The role requires 6+ years in software engineering with solid Workday expertise, and a track record of leading