Managing Engineer - Workday Integrations

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.  Job Description The Software Engineer Associate Manager puts the system user at the center of everything they do; ensuring that users receive the most value out of the products being developed. The Software Engineer Associate Manager develops test driven code all day and every day. They own and manage running their application in production and is accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving key performance indicators. The Software Engineer Associate Manager selects, leads, counsels, motivates, sets expectations and evaluates small to medium teams. Additionally, they advise direct reports on administrative policies and procedures, risks, issues, problem resolution, and priorities. This person assists in defining, implementing and prioritizing IT policies, procedures, and best practices. The Software Engineer Associate Manager influences team and business results. 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, d evelop integration roadmaps and support strategic initiatives including Workday releases, acquisitions, system migrations, and digital transformation programs. Essential Skills • Minimum 10 + 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