Managing Engineer - Workday Integrations (Hybrid) in Belfast

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. For more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs.

Your role in the team

The Managing Engineer – Workday Integrations is responsible for leading the design, development, delivery, and support of enterprise integrations that connect Workday with internal and third-party applications across the organization. This role combines technical leadership, people leadership, and delivery accountability to ensure Workday integrations are reliable, scalable, secure, and aligned with business objectives.

The Managing Engineer leads a team of integration engineers responsible for developing and maintaining interfaces using Workday integration technologies, middleware platforms, APIs, cloud integration services, and enterprise messaging frameworks. The role partners closely with HR Technology, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders to define integration strategies, establish engineering standards, and deliver high-quality technology solutions.

This position requires a technical leader who can balance strategic planning with hands-on technical oversight, drive operational excellence, mentor engineering talent, and ensure integration platforms evolve to meet future business and technology requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Workday integration engineers, establishing clear priorities, objectives, and engineering best practices, with support from Lead and Principal Engineers.
• Own the design, development, deployment, and ongoing support of Workday integrations across Human Capital Management (HCM), Payroll, Benefits, Recruiting, Talent, Learning, and other Workday modules.
• Define and implement enterprise integration strategies that support scalability, security, maintainability, and operational excellence.
• Lead the delivery of complex integration initiatives involving Workday, middleware platforms, cloud services, APIs, and third-party vendors.
• Establish engineering standards, governance processes, coding practices, and quality controls across the integration portfolio.
• Partner with HR Technology, Product Owners, Architects, and business stakeholders to translate business outcomes into technical solutions.
• Ensure integrations meet security, compliance, audit, and data governance requirements.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, observability, and Infrastructure as Code where appropriate.
• Oversee production support processes, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities.
• Collaborate with Workday product teams to leverage new capabilities and best practices.
• In partnership with Digital Product Manager, develop integration roadmaps and support strategic initiatives including Workday releases, acquisitions, system migrations, and digital transformation programs.

Essential Skills

• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
• Minimum of 4+ years of experience in Workday Studio and/or Orchestrate.
• Experience in Coaching and Mentoring junior engineers.
• Proven experience leading the delivery of multiple enterprise integration projects from requirements through production deployment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, stakeholder expectations, and delivery timelines across complex technology initiatives.
• Experience designing and supporting inbound, outbound, and bi-directional integrations between Workday and enterprise applications.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain production Workday integrations within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Experience integrating Workday with enterprise systems such as HR platforms, identity solutions, payroll providers, benefits vendors, ERP systems, or data platforms.
• Working knowledge of cloud integration and enterprise integration architecture principles.
• Experience implementing automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and support practices.
• Strong understanding of data transformation, error handling, integration security, and application lifecycle management.

Desirable Skills

• Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or other modern delivery frameworks.
• Knowledge of identity management and HR-related security requirements including SSO, IAM, RBAC, and data protection controls.
• Experience with reporting, analytics, and workforce data integration solutions.
• Exposure to generative AI, automation, or intelligent workflow technologies within HR and employee experience platforms.
• Experience supporting global HR organizations operating across multiple geographies and regulatory environments.
• Experience with Agentic AI.
• Exposure to Workday Extend.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This role has supervisory responsibilities and serves as the first-level manager for a team of Workday Integration Engineers. Responsibilities include hiring, performance management, coaching, career development, workload planning, and delivery oversight.

What do you get in return?

As well as receiving a competitive annual salary, our reward package includes:

• Corporate bonus scheme
• Pension scheme
• Annual performance-related pay reviews
• Life assurance and income protection
• Flexible working options
• Hybrid working
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Access to an employee assistance programme
• Discounted gym membership
• Two paid volunteering days each year
• Cycle to work scheme

Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way.