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Principal API Architect, Product Engineering – Agent‑Ready APIs & Data
Workday INC · 🇺🇸 2 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 255 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 103 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Workday INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles2 certified filings for “Product Manager” (Data Scientists) in CO: $143k–$148k, median $146k. Most were filed at wage level II (50%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 255 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 103 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Your work days are brighter here. We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too. About the Team Product Engineering builds the end‑to‑end product experiences that Workday customers use. Many of these experiences are now powered by agents and AI, which depend on a strong API foundation. This role sits in Product Engineering but operates across product pillars. You will work closely with Product Engineering teams as well as partner organizations. You will shape the API foundation, architecture and operating model that makes it easy for Product Engineering to build agent‑ready, high‑quality APIs. About the Role About the Role As a Principal API Architect in Product Engineering, you'll own the API architecture vision for the organization — setting the standards, review processes, and reference architectures that guide how Product Engineering teams design and deliver APIs. You'll work closely with product and engineering leaders to turn that vision into practice across teams. You bring deep, hands-on experience designing products end to end — from domain modeling through backend implementation, API design, and production operations. You're comfortable translating product functionality into scalable services and well-modeled API endpoints, and you treat APIs not just as technical interfaces, but as durable product contracts that reflect real product capabilities, domain concepts, and customer use cases. Key Responsibilities: • Define and evolve the API architecture, standards, and governance model for Product Engineering, spanning REST, GraphQL, SOAP, and emerging integration patterns used by Workday's agents and products. • Partner with product and engineering teams to design product capabilities end to end — domain models, service boundaries, object models, and API endpoints — translating product requirements into scalable backend services and well-structured API contracts. • Establish and maintain API standards, including OpenAPI contract guidelines, resource modeling and naming conventions, authentication and multi-tenant patterns, and error handling, versioning, and deprecation policies. • Partner with "API champions" across product areas to shape API roadmaps, identify gaps or duplication, and drive convergence on shared patterns and building blocks. • Define reference architectures for agent-ready APIs used by the Agent Factory, data-centric APIs that safely expose data through Data Cloud, and latency and observability standards across the request path. • Lead cross-team API design reviews and serve as the final decision-maker on contentious or high-impact design questions. • Shape and run a single, transparent intake and prioritization process for Prod