Senior Workday Engineer

Role Description

As a Senior Workday Engineer on our ERP & LMS platform engineering team, you will design, build, and operate integrations and cloud-based solutions that power critical Finance, HR, and learning systems. You will work across Workday and other SaaS platforms, leveraging AWS services to deliver scalable, secure, and resilient solutions.

• Own the full lifecycle of integrations and platform capabilities—from architecture and development to deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support.
• Ensure solutions are built with strong observability, enabling proactive detection, rapid troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of system performance and reliability.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and business teams to define clear integration patterns, APIs, and system boundaries.
• Help ensure that all solutions meet enterprise standards for security, compliance, and data integrity.
• Improve operational readiness through automation, monitoring, and well-defined recovery processes.
• Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence by mentoring others and promoting best practices in cloud architecture, DevOps, and integration design.
• Design systems that gracefully handle failures, scale effectively, and maintain high availability.

This role is ideal for someone who is both a strong builder and an operator—someone who not only develops high-quality solutions but also ensures they are secure, observable, and reliable in production.

• Design & Implementation (60%)
  • Design and implement cloud-based integrations and platform solutions across ERP (Workday), LMS, and enterprise systems using AWS and modern integration patterns (APIs, event-driven architecture).
  • Build high-quality, scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions using reusable, component-based design patterns that promote interoperability and code reuse.
  • Embed observability into solutions through monitoring, logging, and alerting to enable proactive issue detection, rapid troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
  • Understand new product capabilities and decompose the implementation into specific functional changes for verification.
  • Build and deploy solutions using Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps practices, ensuring efficient and consistent delivery.
• Team Operations & Success (20%)
  • Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to team deliverables in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
  • Conduct peer reviews of code and design artifacts, maintaining high engineering standards and promoting best practices.
  • Assist in the resolution of production issues.
  • Adhere to development standards and security policies and procedures.
  • Adopt the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practice of rapidly implementing, testing, and delivering high-quality code based on the team’s DevOps model.
  • Continuously develop the skills required to work as part of the Agile team in a poly-skilled development environment.
• Software Solutioning & Design (20%)
  • Design for resilience by incorporating fault tolerance, error handling, and recovery processes to ensure reliable, highly available systems.
  • Collaborate with product owners, architects, and stakeholders to translate business needs into well-defined technical solutions and deliverables.
  • Work closely with Lead Engineer and Data Leads evaluating feature requests, providing level-of-effort estimates and contribute to sprint planning.
  • Conduct and participate in peer code and solution design reviews.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of Workday integration experience (Studio and Eclipse).
• Advanced Workday knowledge in the following areas: Financials, HCM, Reporting, Studio, Orchestrate, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), integration systems, Document Transformation, and security.
• Experience building and supporting API-based and file-based integrations with internal and external platforms, including external benefits providers.
• Proven experience designing and implementing cloud-based integrations and platform solutions across ERP (Workday), LMS, and enterprise systems using AWS and modern integration patterns (APIs, event-driven architecture).
• Experience embedding observability into solutions through monitoring, logging, and alerting to enable proactive issue detection, rapid troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.
• Experience designing resilience—incorporating fault tolerance, error handling, and recovery processes to ensure reliable, highly available systems.
• Strong problem-solving skills, working collaboratively with team members to identify and resolve issues, and partnering with Product Owners to prioritize backlog.
• Proven ability to pitch new ideas and implement improved systems and processes, delivering excellent results.
• Effective communicator and team lead, able to provide actionable feedback, mentor team members, and participate in interviews to evaluate engineering talent.
• Experience adhering to enterprise security, compliance, and development standards, ensuring audit-ready and secure solutions.
• Comfort quickly building a deep understanding of Finance, HR, and LMS business processes in a poly-skilled Agile environment.
• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in the field of computer science or related field (preferred).
• Knowledge and use case experience with Workday Prism (nice to have).
• Professional Workday training and/or certifications (nice to have).
• Experience with React, NodeJS, Java, and AWS services (Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, RDS, DynamoDB, AWS CLI) in a cloud-based environment (nice to have).

Requirements

• A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work.
• Authorization to work in the United States for any employer.
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and comfort learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively.
• Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal.
• A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth: welcoming diverse perspectives, giving and receiving timely, respectful feedback, and continuously improving through iterative learning and user input.
• A drive for impact and excellence: solving complex problems, making data-informed decisions, prioritizing what matters most, and continuously improving through learning, user input, and external benchmarking.
• A collaborative and empathetic approach: working across differences, fostering trust, and contributing to a culture of shared success.

Benefits

• At College Board, we offer more than just a paycheck—we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive.
• We’re a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation, grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market.
• The hiring range for this role is $153,000 - $166,000.
• Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board.
• We aim to make our best offer upfront—rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data.
• We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live.