Sr Workday Applications Engineer

Zillows People Technology organization builds and operates the platforms that power how Zillow employees work: Workday ServiceNow and the agentic AI layer connecting these systems to the surfaces employees use every day - Slack Google Workspace Zoom and AI tools. The India engineering team owns this platform stack end to end: production access change ownership on-call rotation and direct relationships with the business teams we support.

Zillow Group is a strategic mission-driven organization focused on delivering exceptional experiences and measurable outcomes. Our work spans cross-functional partnership scalable programs and operational excellence in support of Zillows mission. We bring deep experience working across diverse teams in a dynamic high-growth environment balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution to drive meaningful business impact. We are seeking an experienced professional to support our workforce expansion in India.

You are a key contributor to the team leading the way on the most important integration and application initiatives designs and operational events across Workday and the broader enterprise ecosystem. You habitually design effective architectures deliver critical bodies of code and integration and shepherd the quality of the teams outputs. You are an expert on your teams systems and business domain and you understand how they fit into the larger cross-team architecture. You contribute to projects that cut across teams and domains and you are relied upon to resolve critical operational incidents meet essential deadlines and propose effective designs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for complex integration and application work across Workday Gem BrightHire ServiceNow AD/Okta payroll and benefits vendors and internal platforms; define the reusable patterns and set standards for the team

• Build complex integrations services & applications using Workday Studio EIB Core Connectors and REST/SOAP/GraphQL APIs and architect Extend applications (custom objects validations orchestration-backed workflows)

• Act as an expert in multiple subdomains owned by your team; influence and shape team architecture working closely with Principal and other senior Engineers and treat testability resiliency and observability as first-order concerns

• Design and own MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers and connectors that expose Workday capabilities to AI agents and internal tooling; treat the AI-enablement layer as first-class platform work

• Establish how the team uses and adopts AI-assisted IDEs and coding agents (Claude Code Cursor GitHub Copilot); raise delivery speed and code quality across the team/org not just your own output

• Set the standard for observability across the integration estate (dashboards metrics alerts and runbooks); resolve complex high-severity production issues at the root cause and drive measurable improvements in platform health and reliability

• Act as a focal point for projects: coordinating deliverables writing designs ensuring accurate estimates and reviewing artifacts

• Mentor engineers improving their craft and integrating them into team culture and process

• Communicate consistently with technical and non-technical staff documenting decisions and the rationale behind build/buy and design tradeoffs

This role has been categorized as an Office position. Office employees regularly work at the Zillow India office for approximately 80 to 100 percent of their time each month. Employees must live within a reasonable commuting distance of the office. Zillow has not defined a reasonable distance and expects employees will use judgment in determining this for themselves and understand the implications re: time commitment and cost of daily commute.

In addition to a competitive base pay employees in this role are eligible for incentive compensation subject to applicable laws and relevant Zillow policies. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience performance and location.

• 5-8 years of software or application engineering experience with significant time spent on platform or enterprise systems

• 4 years of hands-on Workday development across integrations (Studio EIB Core Connectors) Extend Orchestration and RaaS/WQL

• 3 years writing production code in JavaScript Java Python or Go with strong SQL or equivalent querying experience

• Highly skilled in building with REST/SOAP and GraphQL and in data transformation patterns (XML XSLT JSON)

• Demonstrated ownership of integration architecture including event-driven patterns API gateway patterns and fault-tolerant design

• Deep understanding of the Workday data model and security fundamentals (domains segments business processes)

• Uses AI-assisted development as a standard part of the daily workflow and sets the bar for the team

• Bachelors degree from a recognized university in Engineering Computer Science IT or a related field (B.E./ or equivalent practical experience

• Experience designing MCP servers or API-layer connectors for AI tooling

• Experience with an iPaaS platform such as MuleSoft or Workato

• Workday Integration or Extend certification

At Zillow were reimagining how people movethrough the real estate market and through their careers.

As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S. Zillow helps millions of customers navigate buying selling financing and renting with greater ease and confidence. Our teams in India play a critical role in building and scaling the technology products and operations that power this experience.

Whether youre working in tech operations or shared services youll collaborate with global partners to solve meaningful problems and help more people make home a reality.

Zillow is honored to be recognized among the best workplaces in the U.S.. Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2025 and included on the PEOPLE Companies That Care 2025 list reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative inclusive and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.

No matter where you sit in the organization your work will help drive innovation support our customers and move the industryand your careerforward together.

Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability gender maternity status HIV status or veteran status. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to candidates with disabilities in accordance with applicable policies.