Workday Student Functional and Integration SME

Engagement: Part-time consulting through the end of 2026
Expected commitment: 20 hours per week
Location: Remote

We are seeking a Workday Student functional and integration SME to support a product and engineering team with assessing integration requirements, mapping data concepts, and developing an initial architecture recommendation through the end of 2026.

Purpose
Provide functional and integration expertise in Workday Student to help a product and engineering team assess integration requirements and develop an initial architecture recommendation.

Responsibilities

• Review an existing integration field list, identify equivalent Workday concepts and data sources, and explain how values can be obtained or derived.
• Assess data gaps and their business and technical impact, recommending how to address or prioritize them.
• Advise on Workday Student processes and configuration, particularly courses, sections, schedules, and instructor associations.
• Explain how approval workflows and institution-specific configuration affect data access, updates, and integration behavior.
• Assess approaches for bidirectional synchronization, asynchronous transactions, and bulk data retrieval.
• Evaluate suitable integration methods for prioritized use cases, including Workday Web Services, RaaS, Studio, and Orchestrate where relevant.
• Support limited follow-up questions within the agreed engagement.

Expected deliverables

• Field-mapping and gap assessment.
• Integration-method recommendations for prioritized use cases.
• Initial architecture recommendation, including key constraints, dependencies, and next steps.

Experience required

• Direct functional Workday Student experience and a strong understanding of configuration, SIS
  administration, and academic processes.
• Practical experience supporting or designing Workday Student integrations.
• Understanding of how Workday business processes and configuration affect integration design.
• Ability to translate functional requirements into practical guidance for product managers and engineers.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently.

About Us

Higher Digital is built for people who want to do meaningful work in an environment free from corporate bureaucracy.

We’re a small, experienced, global team helping higher education institutions solve hard problems and turn strategy into action. That means our people get real responsibility, real visibility, and a real voice in what we do.

We trust people to use good judgment and get things done. We share how the company is performing. We talk openly about what’s working, what isn’t, and what needs to change. Good ideas matter more than titles, and we expect people to challenge us when they see a better way.

We’re remote-first and work across the US, UK, Europe, Canada, and beyond. We value flexibility, but flexibility comes with accountability. Clients and teammates need to be able to count on you.

We also genuinely like working together. Cameras are usually on. Conversations wander into football, soccer, baseball, travel, and whatever international rivalry is happening that week. We take the work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously.

Higher Digital moves quickly. Priorities change. People wear more than one hat. There isn’t a giant organization waiting to solve every problem for you. If you need layers of process, narrowly defined responsibilities, and lots of permission, this probably isn’t your place. If you like autonomy, smart colleagues, transparency, variety, and the opportunity to make a visible difference (for our clients and for the company) you’ll probably feel at home here.

We’re building Higher Digital together.