Workday Integration Lead
General Atlantic is a global investment leader founded in 1980, serving as a dedicated partner for entrepreneurs and investors building long-term value. The firm identifies talent and technologies with great potential, empowering innovators with patient capital, operational expertise, and a global platform to scale their businesses.
About General Atlantic
General Atlantic operates as one global platform fueling innovation across multiple investment strategies, including Growth Equity, Credit, Energy Transition, and Infrastructure. Through Growth Equity, the firm accelerates category-leading companies by providing strategic counsel and value-add capabilities. Its Credit strategy delivers strategic capital solutions to high-quality businesses at key phases of their lifecycles. The Energy Transition strategy identifies and scales growth companies with net zero solutions, while its Infrastructure strategy, through Actis, invests in long-term equitable growth in critical infrastructure across energy transition, digitization, and supply chain transformation. General Atlantic manages $126B in assets under management and has invested $121B in total capital since inception, with a presence across 21 global locations serving entrepreneurs and growth-stage companies worldwide.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead end-to-end integration design and delivery for Workday Finance, HCM, and Payroll, building and managing integrations using Studio, Orchestrations, Core Connectors, EIB, RaaS, and REST/SOAP APIs. You'll collaborate closely with stakeholders across Human Capital, Finance, and IT teams including Product Management, Data Engineering, and Infrastructure/Security to ensure clean, sustainable data flow between Workday and third-party applications. You will manage data mapping, transformation, and validation across inbound and outbound integrations, oversee integration lifecycle management and production hyper care, and act as a trusted advisor on Workday integration best practices. You'll prepare for and lead activities around Workday releases, build and deploy business processes and calculated fields, support integrations with tools like Greenhouse and HireVue, and drive automation through Workday Extend applications.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on Workday integration experience, including Studio, Orchestrations, Core Connectors, EIB, RaaS, REST, and SOAP
- Strong understanding of Workday data model and business processes across multiple Workday modules (HCM, Finance, Payroll, Compensation, Absence, Time Tracking, Benefits, and Security)
- 4+ years of experience with complex reports, calculated fields, and business process design
- 3+ years of experience with data transformation, validation, and integration error handling
- Proficient in XML, XSLT, JSON, XSD, and integration debugging techniques
- Strong experience with API authentication, encryption, certificates (x509/PGP), and SFTP/data exchange frameworks
- Hands-on experience with Workday Extend or familiarity with developing custom apps that enhance Workday functionality
- Prior experience working in global environments with complex integration landscapes
- Workday Pro certification or experience with a certified Workday Partner preferred
- Experience with BIRT, Adaptive Planning, Strategic Sourcing, Peakon and Workday Learning preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end integration design and delivery including technical design, development, configuration, validation, and deployment of Workday integrations using Studio, Orchestrations, Core Connectors, EIB, RaaS, and REST/SOAP APIs
- Manage data mapping, transformation, and validation processes across inbound and outbound integrations ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance
- Oversee integration lifecycle management, code migration, and production hyper care
- Serve as a trusted advisor on Workday integration best practices and design patterns, collaborating with HR, IT, and business stakeholders
- Prepare for and lead activities around Workday releases, including impact analysis, regression testing, and adoption of new integration or Extend features
- Build, test, and deploy integration business processes, calculated fields, condition rules, and data transformations to support operational workflows
- Support a limited set of non-Workday integrations such as Greenhouse and HireVue
- Drive automation through Workday Extend applications to enhance usability and streamline business activities
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans
- Retirement savings plan with employer matching
- Professional development opportunities and ongoing training
- Annual discretionary bonuses
- Long-term incentive programs