Workday Integration Consulting

Your integrations should work.
Your team should succeed.
I'll make sure that happens.

I help HRIS Directors and technical leads whose teams are stuck in permanent firefighting mode, watching their Workday investment dwindle. If you're manually re-keying data, chasing errors you can't explain, and trying to figure out what your implementation partner left behind, I can help.

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Matthew Hurley
Does This Sound Familiar?

You went live with Workday.
The firefighting didn't stop.

When an implementation partner exits, mid-market teams are often left holding complex systems they didn't build and can't reliably predict. Your team quietly absorbs the friction into the routine — manual fixes, recurring errors, workarounds that became standard procedure. The system was supposed to solve this, but now you're considering an expensive AMS contract.

"We're still doing this manually?"

Functional leads spending hours — sometimes entire days — checking up on integrations that should have worked the first time.

Constant firefighting

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

No documentation

Maybe the development partner left you with a design document that doesn't actually tell you anything useful. Maybe they didn't leave documentation at all. Troubleshooting means starting from scratch every time.

Not Critical for Implementation

Some integrations weren't critical for Go-Live... but a year later and data is still being pulled from the old systems that Workday was supposed to replace.

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 should serve you

Workday is an HRIS solution. When you're left with busywork, the promise of the implementation goes unrealized and leadership notices.

Who I Work With

Mid-market organizations that are still trying to recover from Go-Live

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. Sometimes they're left with a backlog of 'non-critical' implementation tasks, but without the bandwidth to actually knock them out.

I specialize in exactly this gap. With 10+ 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 to make myself unneccessary. Your team should be able to take ownership on their own and succeed after I leave.

I work best with
  • Executives who want to identify and quantify the labor that is misappropriated by broken feeds
  • HRIS Directors managing Workday without a dedicated integration developer
  • Technical leads inheriting integrations they didn't build and can't fully explain
  • Organizations a year after launch 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
How I Help

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 — failure rates, manual rework, and what it's costing your team in time and misplaced effort. You keep this planning document whether your team executes it, or you bring me in to execute it.

$15,000
  • Full review of your Workday integration ecosystem
  • Analysis of recurring errors
  • Quantified human capital cost of quiet manual recovery
  • 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, training, and knowledge transfer.

Custom Pricing
  • EIB, Studio, Core Connector, Orchestrate, Document Transforms
  • Benefits carrier feeds, vendor sync, 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 instead of 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
A Real Example

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 never accounted for the fact that it was actually mapping a transactional data feed into a state-machine model. The new integration 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.

A Real Example

"Just Turn Them Off."

When your team is left without documentation and training, success is out of reach.

Student Recruiting — Inbound Applications Integration Rebuild

A mid-size university implemented the Student module, but were left with an integration that created more work than it saved. After trying to live with the system for a while, they finally concluded that it was easier to manually enter the data from the source system into Workday, than it was to try and correct all the errors from the integration.

The team shut down the whole suite of integrations between Workday and the external system.

I rebuilt the integration from the groud up: the original integration tried to use a "cute trick" to make the programming easier... but it was impossible to troubleshoot or diagnose.

The new integration announced clearly what it was doing, and had provided recommendations for recovery. By the time I was finished, the team had thorough documentation, personalized training, and a plan for future success.

Client Feedback

What clients say

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About

Matthew Hurley

I'm a solo Workday Integration consultant with 10+ years of experience across HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Absence, Talent, Time Tracking, Recruiting, and Student modules. I've maintained environments of 150+ integrations across mutliple companies, 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: my university education was in a visual 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 earned 2025

10+ Years Experience

Full module breadth since 2016

Higher Ed & Gov't Familiarity

Complex orgs, lean IT teams, proprietary software

Design Background

Master of Fine Art in Visualization from Texas A&M University

USMC Veteran

5 years active duty during OIF/OEF

Plain-Language Docs

Every engagement gets readable documentation

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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