Job Description

Workday Specialist - Technical

Location: Hyderabad, India

Join Lonza’s Digital HR team as a Workday Specialist - Technical, supporting our Hyderabad delivery capability. This is a hands-on technical role focused on building, maintaining, and supporting Workday integrations, Extend applications, and automation solutions.

You will work closely with technical leads to deliver integrations and technical solutions to agreed specifications, while ensuring reliability, testing quality, and effective documentation.

What you will do

• Build, test, and maintain Workday integrations using Core Connectors, EIBs, Studio, Orchestrate, PECI/WECI, where relevant.
• Monitor integration runs, troubleshoot failures, manage certificate replacements, and maintain integration health.
• Support the development and maintenance of Workday Extend applications under the guidance of technical leads.
• Perform integration, regression, and end-to-end testing and document results.
• Support HR automation and AI initiatives through technical build and configuration activities.
• Maintain integration catalogues, technical documentation, and runbooks.
• Work within defined technical standards, release governance, and SLAs.
• Coordinate technical handovers across APAC and EMEA teams.

What we are looking for

• Hands-on Workday integration development experience, with Core Connectors and EIBs as a minimum; Workday Studio experience is highly preferred.
• Experience as an integration builder, rather than solely monitoring or providing production support.
• Good understanding of Workday web services (SOAP/REST), XSLT, and integration debugging.
• Experience building and maintaining integrations to defined technical specifications.
• Strong understanding of integration testing and controlled release processes.
• Ability to troubleshoot integration failures and maintain reliable integration performance.
• Strong written communication and technical documentation skills.
• Comfortable working within SLAs, technical standards, and release governance in a global environment.

Preferred

• Workday Integration certification.
• Experience with Workday Studio or Workday Extend.
• Exposure to Workday Prism, HR automation, or AI tooling.
• Experience working in a Global Capability Centre or offshore delivery environment.

About Lonza

At Lonza, our people are our greatest strength. Working across sites and functions, our globally connected teams help our customers bring life-changing therapies to patients around the world. We offer an inclusive environment where employees can collaborate, grow, and make a meaningful impact.