Senior Workday Integration Administrator

Job Title: Senior Workday Integration Administrator

Job Location: Virtual India

Job Location Type: Remote

Job Contract Type: Full-time

Job Seniority Level:

Join a global Contract Resource Organization (CRO) where innovation meets purpose. At Worldwide Clinical Trials, we're driven by a shared commitment to improving lives through high-quality clinical research. Our teams are empowered to think creatively, take ownership, and deliver meaningful work that helps bring life-changing therapies to patients around the world.

With more than 4,000 professionals across the globe, we foster a collaborative and inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are valued, growth is encouraged, and every contribution makes an impact. Whether you're building your career or bringing years of experience, you'll have the opportunity to learn, grow, and help shape the future of clinical research.

Make an Impact as a Senior Workday Integration Administrator at Worldwide

Play a pivotal role in shaping and supporting the integrations that power our global Workday HCM ecosystem. In this role, you'll serve as the technical owner of a complex integration landscape, ensuring seamless, secure, and reliable data exchange across HR, Payroll, Benefits, Finance, IT, and external platforms.

Your expertise will help maintain the integrity of global worker data while driving new integration initiatives, supporting business growth, and ensuring compliance with evolving security and privacy requirements. From design and deployment through ongoing support and optimization, you'll have a direct impact on the performance and maturity of our Workday environment.

Working closely with People Systems administrators, business stakeholders, and external vendors, you'll help deliver scalable, auditable, and high-performing solutions that support employees around the world.

Where You'll Work

This is a HYBRID role open to candidates based in Trivandrum/Kochi. You will collaborate with global teams across multiple time zones.

Travel may be required as part of the hybrid working arrangement.

What You'll Do

• Own the full lifecycle of Workday HCM integrations, from design and development through testing, deployment, support, and continuous improvement.
• Build and maintain secure, scalable integrations using Workday technologies including EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Studio, Workday Orchestrate, PECI, PICOF, RaaS, SOAP and REST APIs.
• Manage secure data exchanges across payroll providers, benefits vendors, finance systems, identity platforms, LMS solutions, screening providers, and other enterprise applications.
• Lead integration readiness activities for Workday's biannual releases, including impact assessments, regression testing, stakeholder coordination, and production deployments.
• Serve as the escalation point for integration issues by performing root-cause analysis, implementing corrective actions, and ensuring timely stakeholder communication.
• Safeguard data quality, security, and compliance through audits, reconciliations, access controls, and adherence to global privacy and governance requirements.
• Maintain comprehensive integration documentation, data mappings, technical specifications, and operational runbooks to support long-term sustainability.
• Partner with HR, Payroll, Benefits, Finance, IT teams, and external vendors to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Identify opportunities to modernize and improve the integration landscape by leveraging new Workday capabilities, best practices, and emerging technologies.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Human Resources Management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 4 years of hands-on Workday integration development experience supporting a live production tenant, with Workday HCM as the primary functional area.
• Workday Pro Orchestrate Developer Certification or Workday Pro Integrations Certification.
• Strong expertise in EIB, Core Connectors, PECI/PICOF, Workday Studio and/or Workday Orchestrate, RaaS, SOAP and REST web services, XML, XSLT, and authentication frameworks including OAuth 2.0, x509, and WS-Security.
• Working knowledge of Workday integration security, including ISU/ISSG configurations, domain security, business process security, and least-privilege access principles.
• Experience supporting Workday release management, tenant refreshes, regression testing, and production migrations associated with Workday's twice-yearly updates.
• Experience integrating Workday with cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Workday Prism Analytics, or Workday Extend is highly preferred.
• Proficiency in English, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Discover the Difference

We love knowing that someone is going to have a better life because of the work we do.  Discover the Difference at Worldwide Clinical Trials. Explore additional opportunities on our careers page, visit http://www.worldwide.com/careers, or connect with us on LinkedIn.

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