Sr. Lead Engineer, Integration & Automation

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Sr. Lead Engineer, Integration & Automation based in the United States. This is a senior technical leadership opportunity to define how critical enterprise systems connect across Finance, Revenue, Billing, People Technology, and Go-to-Market functions. You’ll own the technical vision for a complex integration ecosystem spanning Workday, Workato, Salesforce, Snowflake, and other SaaS platforms. The role combines enterprise architecture, hands-on engineering, technical governance, automation, and team leadership. You’ll establish standards that improve scalability, security, reliability, monitoring, and overall engineering maturity. You’ll also play a central role in advancing AI and automation initiatives and identifying opportunities with meaningful business impact. Working with distributed engineering teams and senior business stakeholders, you’ll serve as both a technical authority and a strategic partner. Define and maintain the enterprise integration architecture across Finance, Revenue, People Technology, Billing, and Go-to-Market, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with engineering standards. Establish and enforce integration design guidelines, coding standards, SLAs, tiering frameworks, monitoring practices, and patterns for error handling, idempotency, retries, alerting, and change management. Lead architecture reviews for new integrations and significant enhancements, making final technical design decisions for complex initiatives. Evaluate integration tools, platforms, and architectural patterns, including build-versus-configure decisions involving iPaaS platforms, native connectors, APIs, and custom development. Audit the existing integration estate, identify technical debt and recurring failure patterns, and develop and execute a prioritized roadmap for technical hardening and modernization. Design, build, optimize, and maintain complex Workday Studio and Workato integrations, including EIB, Core Connectors, Document Transformation, XSLT, multi-step workflows, and major refactoring initiatives. Develop reusable integration components, transformation templates, and shared libraries that improve development speed, consistency, maintainability, and reliability. Build and maintain API-based integrations connecting Workday, Salesforce, Snowflake, Avalara, Workato, and other enterprise platforms using REST, SOAP, JSON, XML, OAuth, and event-driven patterns. Own integration monitoring and alerting, implementing proactive health checks and ensuring failures are identified before they materially affect stakeholders. Lead root cause analysis for critical integration incidents, document post-incident findings, and implement systemic improvements to prevent recurrence. Partner with leadership to recruit, onboard, develop, and retain integration engineering talent across distributed U.S. and international teams. Lead recurring integration grooming sessions to triage, scope, and prioritize new requests before they enter broader cross-functional planning. Serve as the senior escalation point for integration incidents and ensure critical failures receive appropriate root cause analysis and preventive follow-up. Build a culture of documentation, runbook discipline, knowledge sharing, and operational excellence across distributed engineering teams. Partner with leadership to develop and prioritize the AI and automation pipeline based on business impact and organizational value. Identify high-value automation opportunities and ensure production solutions are resilient, documented, monitored, and able to withstand upstream system changes. Act as the senior technical advisor to Finance, HR, Revenue, Billing, People Technology, and Go-to-Market stakeholders. Translate complex integration and architecture concepts into clear, business-oriented recommendations for non-technical audie