# Staff Workday Integration Engineer, Tech Foundations

**Company**: Airbnb
**Location**: United States
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63327

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## Description

## Job Summary

As a Staff Workday Integration Engineer, you will be the technical authority for integration initiatives that power Airbnb's global HR technology ecosystem. You will define the integration strategy and technical roadmap, set architectural standards, and own the engineering of Workday MCP and agentic integrations.

## Responsibilities

### Integration Architecture & Technical Strategy

- Define and own Airbnb's Workday integration architecture standards, patterns, and governance frameworks

- Lead architectural decisions for complex integration initiatives, including global rollouts and system migrations

- Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and long-term integration platform strategy

- Establish reusable integration design patterns and observability standards

- Anticipate platform evolution and architect integrations that accommodate Workday's semi-annual releases

- Identify and remediate technical debt across the integration landscape

### Core Workday Integration Development

- Architect, design, build, and maintain complex inbound and outbound integrations using Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIBs, and RaaS API endpoints

- Develop integrations against Workday Web Services (WWS)

- Own design and delivery of high-volume integration scenarios, such as payroll runs and benefits open enrollment

- Build and maintain advanced Custom Reports and Calculated Fields for integration and AI-tool consumption

- Work within the Business Process Framework, understanding how process events trigger integration flows

### AI & Agentic Integration

- Own the engineering of Airbnb's Workday MCP server and its tool surface

- Design and build agentic integrations that let AI assistant plugins and other enterprise LLM tooling read from and act on Workday safely

- Co-own the Talent Systems AI architecture and governance framework with the Systems Architect

- Evaluate Workday-native agentic capabilities and emerging HR AI platforms

- Translate business use cases into AI tool architectures that are operationally feasible and permission-safe

### Production Reliability, Security & Platform Governance

- Drive operational excellence across the integration portfolio

- Own SLAs for critical integrations and AI tools

- Drive root cause analysis on integration failures and implement preventative controls

- Own security, compliance, and governance from the integration and engineering perspective

- Enforce authentication and transport security across all integration surfaces

### HR Technology & Functional Fluency

- Maintain a strong working understanding of core HR and payroll processes

- Understand how HR data flows across the enterprise

- Proactively surface configuration and upstream data issues that affect integration reliability

- Bring an employee-centric lens to integration and AI tool design

### Technical Leadership & Cross-Functional Influence

- Act as the technical authority for Workday integrations and HR agentic tooling across BizTech

- Mentor and upskill senior and mid-level engineers

- Partner with Employee Experience, Recruiting, Payroll, and other teams to translate ambiguous requirements into sound technical architectures

- Write authoritative Integration Design Documents and operational runbooks

- Proactively identify systemic risks and portfolio health issues

## Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field

- 9+ years of experience in enterprise technology, software development, or systems integration

- 5-6 years of hands-on Workday integration development covering the full lifecycle

- Workday Integration Proficiency: Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIBs, Document Transforms, RaaS API endpoints, Workday Web Services (WWS)

- Expert proficiency in XSLT, XML, and JSON; comfortable with Java sufficient for Workday Studio custom steps

- Working knowledge of the Business Process Framework and how events trigger integration flows

- Familiarity with Workday functional configuration across HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Security, and Time & Absence

- Foundational understanding of HR and payroll processes and how they generate the data that integrations carry

- Experience building or integrating LLM-based tools, AI agents, or MCP servers with enterprise business systems

- Git-based version control and structured deployment and change management practices

- Strong knowledge of data security for HR data

## Skills

### Required
- Workday Integration
- Workday Studio
- Core Connectors
- EIBs
- RaaS API endpoints
- Workday Web Services (WWS)
- XSLT
- XML
- JSON
- Java
- Business Process Framework
- HR processes
- Payroll processes
- LLM-based tools
- AI agents
- MCP servers
- Git
- Data security

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