Managing Engineer - Workday Integrations (Hybrid)

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Workday integration engineers, establishing clear priorities, objectives, and engineering best practices, with support from Lead and Principal Engineers. 

• Own the design, development, deployment, and ongoing support of Workday integrations across Human Capital Management (HCM), Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting, Talent, Learning, and other Workday modules. 

• Define and implement enterprise integration strategies that support scalability, security, maintainability, and operational excellence. 

• Lead the delivery of complex integration initiatives involving Workday, middleware platforms, cloud services, APIs, and third-party vendors. 

• Establish engineering standards, governance processes, coding practices, and quality controls across the integration portfolio. 

• Partner with HR Technology, Product Owners, Architects, and business stakeholders to translate business outcomes into technical solutions. 

• Ensure integrations meet security, compliance, audit, and data governance requirements. 

• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, observability, and Infrastructure as Code where appropriate. 

• Oversee production support processes, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities. 

• Collaborate with Workday product teams to leverage new capabilities and best practices. 

• In partnership with Digital Product Manager, develop integration roadmaps and support strategic initiatives including Workday releases, acquisitions, system migrations, and digital transformation programs. 

Essential Skills 

• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy. 

• Minimum of 4+ years of experience in Workday Studio and/or Orchestrate. 

• Experience in Coaching and Mentoring junior engineers. 

• Proven experience leading the delivery of multiple enterprise integration projects from requirements through production deployment. 

• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, stakeholder expectations, and delivery timelines across complex technology initiatives. 

• Experience designing and supporting inbound, outbound, and bi-directional integrations between Workday and enterprise applications. 

• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain production Workday integrations within a large-scale enterprise environment. 

• Experience integrating Workday with enterprise systems such as HR platforms, identity solutions, payroll providers, benefits vendors, ERP systems, or data platforms. 

• Working knowledge of cloud integration and enterprise integration architecture principles. 

• Experience implementing automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and support practices. 

• Strong understanding of data transformation, error handling, integration security, and application lifecycle management. 

Desirable Skills 

• Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or other modern delivery frameworks. 

• Knowledge of identity management and HR-related security requirements including SSO, IAM, RBAC, and data protection controls. 

• Experience with reporting, analytics, and workforce data integration solutions. 

• Exposure to generative AI, automation, or intelligent workflow technologies within HR and employee experience platforms. 

• Experience supporting global HR organizations operating across multiple geographies and regulatory environments. 

• Experience with Agentic AI. 

• Exposure to Workday Extend. 

Supervisory Responsibilities 

This role has supervisory responsibilities and serves as the first-level manager for a team of Workday Integration Engineers. Responsibilities include hiring, performance management, coaching, career development, workload planning, and delivery oversight. 

Posting date: Friday 24th July 2026 [11.59pm]