Zelis · 1 day ago
Senior Tech Lead - Workday
Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. The Senior Tech Lead for Workday serves as the technical authority for all integrations and architectural patterns for Workday, owning the integration landscape and influencing cross-functional teams to shape scalable business processes.
FinanceFinTechHealth Care
Responsibilities
Serve as Zelis’ technical authority for all Workday integrations across HCM and Finance domains
Design and govern end-to-end integration patterns using Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIB, and Workday REST/SOAP APIs
Architect integrations using Azure API Management, SFTP, custom APIs, and influence the evaluation and adoption of other integration middleware
Define reusable patterns, reference architectures, and technical standards for how Workday interfaces with the broader enterprise ecosystem. E.g. Snowflake, Salesforce, AWS
Maintain deep knowledge of Workday’s integration capabilities, upcoming platform changes, and release cycles
Develop, configure, and troubleshoot complex integrations in Workday Studio and related frameworks
Perform root-cause analysis for integration incidents, ensuring permanent fixes and architectural hardening
Mentor Workday analysts and partner engineers on best practices for API usage, error handling, and data transformation
Champion security-by-design principles, including tokenization, encryption, and identity-centered patterns
Support all Workday domains at an architectural level, with ability to advise on data models, cross-domain dependencies, configuration approaches, and extensibility
Act as a technical partner to HR Tech and Finance Tech product owners to ensure coherence between business and platform design
Lead adoption of AI and predictive automation within the Workday integration landscape
Implement AI-enabled monitoring or copilots to detect anomalies, data breaks, and integration failures early
Partner with HR/Finance stakeholders to identify opportunities to streamline business workflows using Workday Extend or AI/LLM-driven patterns
Advocate for continuous modernization of Workday processes and integrations
Provide architectural input on how Workday should integrate with other HR/Finance platforms (e.g., recruiting systems, payroll vendors, procurement or expense tools, case management)
Influence platform selection, integration design, and data flow considerations for new systems entering the HR/Finance stack
Own the Workday integration roadmap, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, InfoSec, and HR/Finance strategies
Represent Workday technology in cross-functional design reviews and incident escalations
Collaborate proactively with security, data/analytics, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure alignment on integration standards and data flows
Qualification
Required
5+ years of Workday technical experience with deep expertise in Workday integrations (Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, PECI/CIC)
Proven track record serving as a hands-on integration architect or lead technologist
Strong experience building integrations using APIs, Azure APIM, SFTP, and custom interface frameworks
Demonstrated ability to create reference architectures, solution designs, sequences, and integration patterns
Strong understanding of Workday security, business processes, data models, and domain structures across both HCM and Finance
Experience supporting full lifecycle Workday implementations, upgrades, and major integration transformations
Exceptional problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills
Ability to work autonomously as a senior IC while influencing senior stakeholders
Benefits
401k plan with employer match
Flexible paid time off
Holidays
Parental leaves
Life and disability insurance
Health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
Company
Zelis
Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience for all.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$20.15MKey Investors
Mubadala
2024-12-04Private Equity
2020-01-05Private Equity· $20.15M
2019-01-01Private Equity
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