Senior Engineer, Application Development and Maintenance

What a Senior Engineer, Application Development & Maintenance contributes to Cardinal Health
The Workday Senior Engineer designs, develops, and sustains complex Workday integrations and solutions that support Cardinal Health’s enterprise HR and business operations. This role applies advanced technical expertise to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions with enterprise-wide impact, while partnering closely with cross-functional teams and mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and support of complex Workday integrations across HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Time Tracking, Security, and downstream enterprise systems

• Deliver and support enterprise initiatives including Workday Public Cloud Migration, Workday Everywhere, EDM, and vendor integrations

• Build and maintain secure, scalable integration solutions using Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connectors, CIC+, APIs, and SSO

• Partner with HRIT, Security/IAM, Network, Infrastructure, and external vendors to ensure compliant, reliable, and performant solutions

• Perform impact analysis, remediation, and bulk updates related to tenant migrations, reference ID alignment, URL changes, and security updates

• Establish and enhance integration standards, monitoring, error handling, and support processes to reduce operational risk

• Support production cutovers, post-production stabilization, and ongoing enhancements

• Lead and support M&A integrations, including coordination and ongoing operations across dual Workday tenants

• Design and implement Workday Orchestrations to automate complex business processes and integration workflows

• Leverage Workday Extend to build and support custom applications that complement core Workday and integration solutions

• Act as a technical mentor, providing guidance, reviews, and best-practice recommendations

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of experience, preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent work experience, preferred

• Certification in Workday Extend, preferred

• Deep expertise in Workday integration architecture, preferred

• Proven success leading multi-phase Workday projects, tenant migrations, or enterprise-wide technology transformations, preferred

• Ability to work in ambiguous environments, prioritize effectively, and deliver scalable, high-quality solutions, preferred

What Is Expected of You and Others at This Level

• Applies advanced technical knowledge and understanding to manage and lead complex, high-impact projects

• Independently determines implementation approaches while receiving guidance on overall objectives

• Participates in and influences the development of standards, policies, and procedures

• Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models

• Works on or leads projects of large scope with significant and long-term impact

• Delivers solutions that may set technical or operational precedent

• Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

Anticipated salary range: $123,400.00 - $176,300.00

Bonus eligible: Yes

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage

• Paid time off plan

• Health savings account (HSA)

• 401k savings plan

• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay

• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

• Short- and long-term disability coverage

• Work-Life resources

• Paid parental leave

• Healthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close: 04/23/2026 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.

The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.