Workday Financials Principal Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Workday Financials Principal Engineer

Location: Atlanta, GA (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

About TURNBRIDGE

TURNBRIDGE delivers precision-driven technical solutions and talent strategies that accelerate business outcomes. We prioritize quality over volume, ensuring fast shortlists, fewer interviews, and start-date assurance for every engagement.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Workday Financials Principal Engineer to lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable Workday Financials integrations and solutions across the enterprise. This role combines deep technical expertise with strong business acumen to ensure seamless connectivity between Workday and other enterprise applications.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on integration expert who thrives in complex environments, mentors others, and drives innovation through well-architected solutions and process improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain integrations between Workday Financials and other internal or external systems using tools such as Workday Studio, Core Connectors, EIB, and Cloud Connect.
• Lead technical solutioning and integration architecture discussions to ensure alignment with business and IT strategy.
• Partner with Finance, Accounting, and Technology teams to gather and analyze integration requirements and translate them into detailed technical specifications.
• Develop and maintain custom Workday reports, calculated fields, and transformation logic to support business processes and analytics.
• Oversee integration testing, error handling, and performance tuning to ensure stable and efficient data exchanges.
• Serve as a technical mentor to junior engineers, fostering collaboration, skill growth, and best practice adoption.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to data integrations, system configurations, and performance optimization.
• Stay current on Workday releases, new integration capabilities, and emerging tools to proactively identify opportunities for improvement.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of experience in Workday Financials development, configuration, and integration.
• Deep expertise with Workday Integration technologies, including EIB, Workday Studio, Core Connectors, and Cloud Connect.
• Strong understanding of Workday Financials modules such as Procurement, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, and Revenue Management.
• Proven experience integrating Workday with third-party vendors and enterprise applications.
• Solid grasp of enterprise financial processes including Record-to-Report (R2R), Order-to-Cash (O2C), and Procure-to-Pay (P2P).
• Experience leading or mentoring technical staff and promoting development best practices.
• Skilled in Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies and familiarity with collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and ServiceNow.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical topics for business audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience providing technical leadership or oversight for medium-to-large enterprise integration projects.
• Experience supporting global or multi-entity Workday environments.
• Familiarity with API integrations, middleware platforms, and data transformation frameworks.
• Exposure to data governance, access management, and system security best practices.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline—or equivalent practical experience.

Why TURNBRIDGE?

• Precision-driven hiring process
• Fast feedback loops and start-date assurance
• Collaborative, growth-focused environment