Workday Integration Consulting

Your integrations should work.
Let me make sure they do.

I help HRIS Directors and technical leads whose teams are stuck in permanent firefighting mode — manually re-keying data, chasing errors they can't explain, and watching their Workday investment deliver less than it promised.

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Matthew Hurley

You implemented Workday.
The problems didn't go away.

Mid-market organizations often go live without the integration expertise to keep things running when the implementation partner leaves. What follows is predictable — and expensive.

"We're still doing this manually?"

Functional leads spending hours — sometimes entire Fridays — re-keying data that should flow automatically between systems.

Errors no one can reliably explain

Break-fixes that sometimes work and sometimes don't. The team can't tell what's actually causing the problem, so the same issue keeps coming back.

No documentation — or none anyone trusts

Integrations built during implementation that nobody fully documented. Troubleshooting means starting from scratch every time.

Still dependent on legacy systems

Critical data still pulled from old systems because the new feeds were never finished, never tested, or never quite worked right.

A backlog that keeps growing

New vendor integrations, benefit carrier feeds, and reporting requests sitting in a queue — because the team is too busy putting out fires to build anything new.

The system is supposed to serve you

Workday was sold as a solution. When it creates busywork instead of eliminating it, the whole promise of the implementation falls apart — and leadership notices.

Mid-market organizations that Workday's SI left behind

Large system integrators are built for enterprise-scale rollouts. When the implementation closes and the team moves on, mid-market organizations — universities, healthcare providers, government agencies, and growing companies — are often left with integrations that technically "work" but don't actually solve the problems that matter.

I specialize in exactly this gap. With 9+ years of Workday integration experience across HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Absence, Talent, Time Tracking, Student, and Recruiting modules, I can step into a struggling integration environment, identify what's actually broken, and fix it in a way your team can maintain after I leave.

The goal isn't to make myself indispensable. It's to leave your team more capable than I found it.

  • HRIS Directors managing Workday without a dedicated integration developer
  • Technical leads inheriting integrations they didn't build and can't fully explain
  • Organizations post-implementation with a growing backlog of unbuilt or broken feeds
  • Teams where manual workarounds have quietly become part of the job
  • CTOs who need integration problems off their plate so they can focus on strategic work
  • Higher education, healthcare, and government entities with complex requirements and lean IT teams

Clear solutions. No unnecessary complexity.

The best solution to an integration problem is usually the one that has already worked somewhere else. I'll tell you when the novel approach is right — and when it's a red herring.

Integration Assessment

A clear-eyed audit of your integration environment — what's broken, what's fragile, what's missing, and what it's costing your team in time and manual effort.

Typical Engagement Starting Point
  • Full review of your existing integration ecosystem
  • Root cause analysis of recurring errors
  • Plain-language documentation of current state
  • Prioritized recommendations with business context
  • Realistic scope and effort estimates

Integration Development & Repair

Building or rebuilding integrations that solve the actual problem — not the problem that was easiest to implement. Every engagement includes documentation and knowledge transfer.

Custom Pricing
  • EIB, Studio, Core Connector, Orchestrate, Document Transforms
  • Benefits carrier feeds, payroll, HRIS, ATS, and more
  • Root cause first — no patching symptoms
  • Plain-language documentation your team can actually use
  • Training so your team owns it when I leave
  • Stable, maintainable solutions over clever ones

Ongoing Advisory & Training

For teams that want to build internal capability and stay ahead of their integration backlog rather than constantly reacting to it.

Retainer Available
  • Troubleshooting methodology and best practices
  • Developer coaching and skills transfer
  • Integration governance and documentation standards
  • Backlog prioritization and planning support
  • Proactive review of upcoming Workday releases

When manual work becomes invisible overhead

The most expensive integration problems aren't the ones that cause obvious failures. They're the ones that quietly become part of someone's job description.

Leave Administration — Benefits Carrier Integration Rebuild

A mid-size medical insurance provider implemented Workday and went live with a leave administration integration that technically ran — but didn't do what the benefits team actually needed. Over time, the gap between what the integration produced and what the carrier required became a standing Friday task: the Benefits Administrator, and others on the team, spending a full workday every week manually correcting and reconciling data before it could be submitted.

The team had internalized this as normal. The integration existed, errors were manageable, and there was no obvious project to fix it — just a recurring cost of hours that never made it onto a budget line.

I rebuilt the integration from the root cause: the original build had tried to do too much, mapping a transactional data feed into a state-machine model it wasn't suited for. The new integration did less — but did exactly what was needed, correctly and reliably.

The manual Friday reconciliation work went away entirely. The benefits team reclaimed that time for work that actually required their expertise. The integration has run reliably since, with documentation the team can follow when questions arise.

What clients say

Testimonials coming as engagements are completed. If we've worked together and you'd like to share your experience, I'd be glad to hear from you.

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Matthew Hurley

I'm a solo Workday Integration consultant with 9+ years of experience across HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Absence, Talent, Time Tracking, Recruiting, and Student modules. I've maintained environments of 150+ integrations, led complex migrations, and done post-implementation recovery work for organizations that went live and found themselves largely on their own.

My background is unusual for a developer: I came up through a design program, which means I approach problems differently. Before writing a line of code, I ask whether the problem has been correctly identified. Some of my most valuable work has been recognizing that the integration wasn't the real issue — and saving a client from spending time and money on the wrong fix.

I don't optimize for indispensability. Every engagement ends with the client's team more capable of managing their own environment than when I arrived.

Certified Workday Pro

Integrations Services

9+ Years Experience

Full module breadth

Higher Ed & Gov't

Complex orgs, lean IT teams

Design Background

MFA, Texas A&M University

USMC Veteran

5 years active duty

Plain-Language Docs

Every engagement

Let's talk about what's not working

A 30-minute conversation is usually enough to identify whether I can help and what the path forward looks like. No pitch — just an honest look at your situation. Send me an email to get started.

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