Workday Technical Lead

Vantive is a vital organ therapy company on a mission to extend lives and expand possibilities for patients and care teams everywhere. For 70 years, our team has driven meaningful innovations in kidney care. As we build on our legacy, we are deepening our commitment to elevating the dialysis experience through digital solutions and advanced services, while looking beyond kidney care and investing in transforming vital organ therapies. Greater flexibility and efficiency in therapy administration for care teams, and longer, fuller lives for patients— that is what Vantive aspires to deliver.

We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us. At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us is driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us in advancing our mission to extend lives and expand possibilities.

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Workday Technical Lead to join our organization. The Workday Technical Lead should be technically sound, partner closely with HR leadership, BRMs (Business Relationship Managers), Delivery Managers, and IT stakeholders to design, configure, implement, and optimize Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions. This partnership will enable the HR function to achieve its goals, drive the greatest leverage of our technical investments, enable innovation, and maintain Vantive’s leadership position in the market. This role drives the technical strategy for Workday, ensuring operational excellence, innovation, and alignment with enterprise HR transformation goals.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Workday Solution Design & Delivery

Strong hands‑on experience with the full Workday integration stack:

• Core Connectors

• EIB (Inbound & Outbound)

• Workday Studio

• Workday Web Services (SOAP & REST APIs)

• RaaS, XML, JSON, XSLT, XPATH

• Authentication & OAuth 2.0

• Troubleshooting, performance tuning, and resolving integration issues.

• Monitoring production integrations and proactively addressing failures.

• Lead design, configuration, and migration of Workday HCM components.

• Translate business needs into scalable Workday technical configurations.

• Drive Workday releases technical evaluation and assess their impact on existing configurations.

• Ensure Workday designs follow global models, meet compliance needs, and integrate cleanly with downstream systems.

2. Technical Leadership & Governance

• Serve as the Workday SME for technical lifecycle management across HR systems.

• Guide product backlog prioritization with BRM and Product Owner based on business impact and strategy.

• Establish Workday technical development standards, documentation practices, and quality controls.

• Mentor, coach, and develop junior Workday analysts and functional consultants.

3. Workday Operations & Optimization

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex Workday configuration, integration, and security issues with minimal supervision.

• Lead testing cycles—unit, regression, UAT—and validate Workday changes for production readiness.

• Drive Workday enhancement initiatives: automation, workflow optimization, calculated fields, and custom reports.

4. Integrations & Reporting

• Support integration design for payroll, benefits, and downstream HR and non-HR applications that are both internal and external; ensure accurate data flows.

• Build and maintain complex Workday reports and dashboards (calculated fields, advanced reporting).

• Maintain Workday security roles and ensure alignment with compliance and audit requirements.

5. Stakeholder, Vendor & Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate across BRM, HR, IT, leadership teams, and 3rd-party vendors to deliver Workday solutions.

• Communicate effectively with leadership, provide status updates, and present solution recommendations.

Required Qualifications

• 6-10* years of experience in HR IT roles, with deep hands‑on Workday experience.

•  Monitoring production integrations and proactively addressing failures.

• Minimum 3 years in Global Workday implementation projects.

• Expertise in Workday business process configuration, Core HCM, Talent, Recruiting, Compensation, and integrations.

• Strong grasp of HR processes and ability to translate them into system solutions.

• Experience with Workday security, calculated fields, reporting, and downstream system integrations.

• Experience with Agile project methodology (Scrum/Kanban etc.)

• Background in SaaS, ITSM, Jira/ServiceNow preferred.

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Required Certifications

• Workday Pro Integration certification.

• Workday Core HCM configuration certification.

• Additional certifications (Recruiting, Compensation, Advanced Comp, Talent) are a strong plus (referenced in candidate profiles).

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership, coaching, and mentoring orientation.

• Ability to operate in global, multicultural, and matrixed environments.

• High attention to detail, process orientation, and decision-making ability.

Reasonable Accommodation

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