Senior Engineer, Workday AI Developer

Cardinal Health is seeking a Senior Engineer, Workday AI Developer to help HR identify and deliver high-value opportunities using Workday Extend and Workday AI offerings. The role will design, build, deploy, and support Workday applications, integrations, automated workflows, and AI-enabled experiences while ensuring security, scalability, adoption, and responsible AI practices.

Responsibilities:

• Partners with HR leaders and functional teams to identify, evaluate, and prioritize opportunities to improve HCM processes through Workday Extend, Workday AI capabilities, agents, integrations, and workflow automation
• Design, build, test, deploy, and support Workday Extend applications that simplify complex HR processes and provide intuitive experiences for employees, managers, and HR teams
• Evaluate and implement Workday-delivered AI capabilities, Sana experiences, delivered agents, and custom agents based on business value, technical feasibility, security, and readiness for adoption
• Develop proofs of concept and rapidly iterate with business stakeholders, moving validated solutions into secure, supportable, and scalable production implementations
• Apply a strong understanding of Workday business processes, security, data models, reporting, APIs, and integrations to ensure Extend and AI solutions operate effectively within the broader Workday architecture
• Design and implement integrations and orchestrations across Workday and third-party platforms using REST and SOAP APIs, Workday Orchestrate, Workday Studio, EIBs, and other appropriate integration technologies
• Configure and manage permissions, domain security, business process security, authentication, and agent access in partnership with Workday Security, HR, Privacy, Legal, and enterprise technology teams
• Establish technical standards and reusable design patterns for Workday Extend and AI solutions, including development, testing, deployment, monitoring, documentation, and production support
• Monitor solution adoption, application performance, API consumption, agent activity, errors, and business outcomes to improve reliability, usability, and value
• Stay current on Workday releases, platform capabilities, developer tools, AI offerings, and marketplace solutions. Assess their potential value and recommend practical adoption opportunities
• Communicate solution options, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Promote responsible AI practices, including appropriate human oversight, data protection, transparency, security, testing, and ongoing monitoring

Requirements:

• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting Workday Extend applications in a production environment
• Strong technical understanding of the Workday platform, including business process configuration, security, reporting, calculated fields, data sources, tenant configuration, and integration architecture
• Experience with Workday integration technologies such as REST and SOAP APIs, Workday Studio, EIBs, Cloud Connect, Workday Orchestrate, or event-driven integrations
• Proven ability to translate HCM business challenges into practical technical solutions, with experience supporting one or more areas such as Recruiting, Compensation, Talent, Payroll, Core HCM, Benefits, Time, or Absence
• Experience evaluating solution alternatives and clearly communicating technical feasibility, implementation complexity, risks, dependencies, and expected business value
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, including the ability to diagnose issues across applications, business processes, security configurations, integrations, and data
• Experience implementing or supporting Workday AI capabilities, Sana for Workday, Workday-delivered agents, custom agents, Agent System of Record, Agent Gateway, or related agent-management capabilities
• Experience designing AI-enabled or agentic workflows that interact securely with Workday data, APIs, and business processes
• Familiarity with enterprise AI concepts such as large language models, prompt design, tool use, retrieval-augmented generation, human-in-the-loop controls, observability, and AI governance
• Experience connecting Workday with enterprise platforms such as Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Google, or other HR technology solutions
• Experience developing reusable components, accelerators, templates, or technical frameworks for Workday Extend, integrations, or AI-enabled solutions
• Knowledge of data privacy, responsible AI, identity and access management, and security practices for systems containing sensitive workforce data
• Relevant Workday certifications, particularly in Workday Extend, integrations, platform, security, or HCM functional areas