Principal Workday Engineer (HRIS)

The role

The Principal Workday Engineer will design, develop, and support integrations connecting People and business systems with Workday at the center. This role involves automating workflows and leveraging AI to modernize employee workflows and data systems.

What you will do

• Serve as technical owner for People Technology integrations including design, build, testing, deployment, and support.
• Design and support inbound and outbound integrations across Workday, Greenhouse, and other G&A platforms.
• Partner with functional owners to translate business requirements into technical designs and testing plans.
• Build and maintain integrations using APIs, webhooks, SFTP, middleware, or iPaaS tools.
• Support vendor implementations and system enhancements by assessing downstream impacts.
• Monitor production integrations and resolve failures or data discrepancies.
• Create and maintain technical documentation including integration diagrams and runbooks.
• Partner with the Workday functional lead to support operational needs across Workday modules.
• Partner with Enterprise Technology and AI teams to identify opportunities for AI-enabled workflows.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across People & Culture, Finance, IT, Security, Legal, and Procurement.

Required qualifications

• 7 years of relevant People Technology (e.g. HRIS) experience
• 5 years of Workday experience
• Strong hands-on experience architecting, designing, building, supporting, and troubleshooting enterprise systems integrations
• Experience working with APIs, webhooks, middleware, iPaaS tools, SFTP, flat files, ETL/ELT patterns, and scheduled data workflows
• Strong understanding of data mapping, transformation logic, validation, monitoring, error handling, reconciliation, and production support
• Prior experience building and troubleshooting Workday integrations including EIBs, core connectors, templated, Studio, RaaS, and API
• Experience partnering on or implementing AI-enabled business process automation using enterprise AI platforms or workflow tools
• Familiarity with AI tools and platforms such as Glean, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, Workday Agents, or similar solutions
• Experience coordinating with external vendors on technical requirements, testing, issue resolution, and change management
• Strong documentation skills
• Clear communication and strong partnership skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Technology, Data/Analytics
• Proficiency with Greenhouse integrations
• Experience integrating Greenhouse with tools such as ModernLoop, Checker, BrightHire, and LinkedIn Recruiter
• Integration experience with vendors such as Okta, Fidelity, Greenhouse, BCBS, Benepass, NetSuite, Adaptive Planning, Peakon, or Coupa
• Experience building AI platforms or standalone AI infrastructure
• Workday reporting experience, including advanced, matrix, and trending reports
• Experience supporting benefits, time and absence, payroll-related workflows, employee lifecycle operations, talent acquisition, or people analytics
• Understanding of HR compliance, HR data security, access controls, and SOX-related considerations
• Experience in a biotech, life sciences, healthcare, or other regulated environment

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Equity compensation
• Competitive benefits package

About the company

Generate Biomedicines is a clinical-stage generative biology company pioneering the AI revolution in drug design and development. They aim to reduce the uncertainty, time, and cost associated with developing protein-based medicines.