Software Development Manager – HR, Workday

Role Overview

• Work with the People teams to support and own Workday integration delivery across the different modules in Workday, ensuring successful planning, estimation, execution, testing, deployment, and hyper care.
• Lead the release management, tenant management, authentication and security domain configuration in Workday.
• Successfully exit any TSA’s within S&P Global Inc. within 12 months of its initiation.
• Lead the design and implementation of Workday integrations, including Studio, EIBs, Core Connectors, APIs, and third party middleware.
• Analyze and understand end to end integration architectures, including upstream and downstream system dependencies.
• Identify Workday integration risks early and proactively manage data quality, error handling, monitoring, and reconciliation strategies.
• Ensure Workday integrations comply with security, data privacy, audit, and compliance requirements.
• Partner with functional, technical, and client leadership to ensure collective ownership of timelines, and deliverables.
• Support and maintain Workday with a team of dedicated Integration specialists and security resources.
• Lead and contribute to integration standards, reusable assets, and best practices.
• Implement a robust testing standard for integrations and Quality Assurance process to minimize integration disruptions or risks.
• Create an environment within the team that focuses on collaboration, customer focus and continuous improvement.
• Align to roadmaps of stakeholders across the enterprise regarding integrating with Workday and work towards a successful outcome.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Business Administration.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience supporting Workday Integrations and Workday tenant or platform.
• Managed a Workday Integration team handling a wide portfolio of inbound/outbound Workday integrations from design to implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross functional teams, collaborating with HR, Finance, Payroll, vendors, and infrastructure teams.
• Experience managing third party Workday integrations for vendors and coordinating point to point integrations.
• Strong background in Workday Integrations, with hands-on experience across: Workday Studio /Core Connectors (CCW, CCB, PECI, etc.) EIBs (inbound and outbound) REST / SOAP APIs, XSLTs, SFTP, SSH/PGP and OAuth 2.0 security.
• Experience in Workday security domain configuration and maintenance.
• Proven experience in architecting Workday integration solutions aligned to the business requirements and technical constraints.
• Experience on Release management in Workday from preparation, analysis, ensuring best practices, prioritizing, communicating to relevant stakeholders and regression testing.
• Deep understanding of Workday integration frameworks, tenant migration strategies, and release management.
• Experience leading Workday integration design documentation, including Integration architecture diagrams, data mappings and transformation logic, error handling and reconciliation approaches.
• Familiarity with Workday integration, monitoring, alerting, and supporting processes.
• Experience working in large, complex Workday programs with multiple tenants and environments.
• Experience in building a global Workday integration technical team.
• Ability to develop team members to enhance technical skillsets across the team.

Tech Stack

• SOAP

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.