HRIS-Technical Practice Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Technical Practice Lead, Workday Integrations & Reporting

Position Scope and Organizational Impact

The Technical Practice Lead, Workday Integrations & Reporting, serves as the senior technical authority responsible for architecting, building, and optimizing an organization's Workday integration and reporting ecosystem. This role leads a team of 2–3 Workday technical professionals focused on delivering scalable, secure, and high-performing integrations, APIs, reports, dashboards, and data solutions that support HR, Payroll, Accounting, Finance, and broader business operations.

As both a hands-on Workday technical expert and a people leader, the Practice Lead drives the Workday technical roadmap, establishes governance standards, and delivers innovative solutions leveraging Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Orchestrate, Workday Reporting, Prism, and / or Extend. The role partners closely with HRIS, IT, Finance, and external vendors to enhance data quality, automation, and business decision-making.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Workday technical analysts and specialists, ensuring high performance and professional growth

Define integration and reporting architecture standards, coding practices, documentation guidelines, and governance protocols

Own the Workday technical roadmap, prioritizing integration performance, data flow optimization, reporting scalability, and adoption of new capabilities

Establish quality assurance practices for integrations, reports, security, and data pipelines

Lead the requirements gathering, design, build, testing, deployment, and support of Workday integrations using Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, REST / SOAP APIs, Document Transformation, and Orchestrate

Oversee integration lifecycle management including monitoring, auditing, error handling, optimization, and performance tuning

Translate complex business and technical requirements into scalable, robust technical solutions

Manage cross-functional integration projects, ensuring timelines, dependencies, risks, and deliverables are effectively controlled

Lead the enterprise reporting strategy leveraging Report Writer, Calculated Fields, Advanced / Composite Reporting, BIRT, Dashboards, and Discovery Boards

Drive adoption of Workday Prism for data blending, pipelines, transformations, and large-scale analytics

Partner with HR, Payroll, and Finance to deliver real-time insights, compliance reporting, and operational dashboards

Ensure strong data governance through controls, audits, validations, and secure data movement across systems

Independently manage projects, including cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders

Serve as the senior escalation point for complex integration, reporting, or data issues

Foster strong partnerships across technical and non-technical teams as well as third-party vendors

Manage vendor relationships and ensure seamless connectivity with downstream or upstream systems

Support Workday biannual releases with technical impact assessments and integration validation

Champion continuous improvement, automation, and modernization of Workday technical capabilities

Perform other duties as assigned

Education and Work Experience

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field

7+ years of Workday technical experience, including 5+ years of hands-on integration and reporting development

3+ years of people-leadership experience (managing engineers, analysts, or technical consultants)

Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis skills

Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Demonstrated success leading cross-functional projects and delivering high-quality technical solutions

Proven ability to implement governance, standardization, and scalable technical frameworks

Advanced hands-on proficiency with :

Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, Document Transformation, Orchestrate

Workday Reporting (Report Writer, Calculated Fields, Composite / Advanced Reports, BIRT, Dashboards, Discovery Boards)

Strong understanding of Workday data structures and HCM / Payroll data models

Experience with integration monitoring, error handling, security, data validations, and performance tuning

Working knowledge of SQL, data lakes, ETL patterns, and cross-system data flows

Familiarity with middleware technologies (e.g., Boomi, MuleSoft, Azure / AWS integration tools) is a plus

Experience with Prism Analytics (pipelines, transformations, external data ingestion) is a plus

Experience developing or supporting Workday Extend applications is a plus

Job Details

Job Title : Technical Practice Lead, Workday Integrations & Reporting

Job Location : Fort Lauderdale, FL

Classification : Full-Time, Exempt, Salaried

Reports To : Director, HRIS