Workday Integrations Senior Lead Analyst (REMOTE)

What you will do:

As our Senior Lead Analyst, Workday Integrations, you will work to understand business needs, including the processes for end-to-end business solutions for HR functions, with a heavy focus on the Workday Integration Cloud Platform. You will provide advanced technical leadership and guidance for Workday integrations, influencing integration design decisions and advising on complex, cross-domain solutions.

You will be responsible for building strong collaborative relationships across the organization in areas that include HR COEs, business-facing HR, Finance, Compliance, Audit, and internal/external Communications with a specific focus on the Workday integration functionality, capabilities, and tools . Additionally, you will design, build, deploy, and consult on integration activities for HR projects, priorities, and enhancements, while providing architectural guidance, risk assessment, and strategic input when solutioning requirements.

Integration Design & Development:

• Design, build, and maintain Workday-native integrations, including:

Third-Party Payroll Integrations

Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)

Workday Connectors and Document Transformations

Workday Orchestrate

Workday Studio

Workday APIs & Web Services

Reports-as-a-Service (RaaS)​

• Translate functional and business requirements into technical integration design and recommend optimal integration approaches aligned with Workday best practices and enterprise architecture standards.

• Evaluate integration options, constraints, and tradeoffs, presenting design recommendations to business and technical stakeholders.

• Understand and anticipate downstream impacts, dependencies, and risk across integrated systems.

Delivery & Performance

• Own and manage integration implementation and release activities; configure, test, deploy, and document integrations across tenant environments (Implementation, Preview, Sandbox, Production).

• Lead cutover activities, data validation, and post-production stabilization, serving as an escalation point for complex or high-impact issues.

• Monitor integration performance, proactively identify optimization opportunities, troubleshoot failures, and resolve incidents.

Collaboration & Governance

• Build and maintain strong relationships with business users, business-facing HR, and HR COE teams; serve as subject matter expert on current and upcoming Workday capabilities.

• Partner with HR Product Owners, Business Analysis Managers (BAMs), and Architects to align integrations with HR roadmaps and future-state architecture.

• Coordinate and align with IT, Security, and vendors on connectivity, certificates, data exchanges, and technical standards.

What you need:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree required or in lieu of a degree, an additional 6 years of professional work experience will be considered. ​​

• 6+ years of professional work experience is needed for a successful candidate.

• 5+ years supporting HR or Workday native integrations.

• 3+ years of hands-on Workday integration experience, to include design, build, and deployment.

• 3+ years of experience supporting system implementations, enhancements, or post-production optimization initiatives.

• 3+ years of experience working in an enterprise HRIS ecosystem, including integrations with platforms such as ServiceNow, Active Directory, SSO, payroll providers, and other downstream systems.

Preferred:

• Experience with third-party payroll, benefits, or WFM integrations (e.g., ADP, UKG, Alight) strongly preferred.

• Workday Pro certification(s) related to Integrations.

• Advanced understanding of cloud-based integration technologies, object-oriented data models, and API-based architectures.

• Strong knowledge of HR data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements (e.g., PII, GDPR, Works Council considerations).

• Experience supporting global, multi-country production environments.

• Strong understanding of HR data models and downstream system impacts.

• Familiarity with agile delivery models (Kanban, Scrum) and change management practices.

• Experience working within an HR-owned systems or product organization.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex requirements, assess risk and tradeoffs, and design scalable integration solutions with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

$102,600- $222,300 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

Posted Date: 02/18/2026
This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.