Workday Integrations Engineer

About the Team

OpenAI’s People team aims to hire, engage, and retain world-class talent who will safely build and deploy universally beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The People Systems team is an important subset of People Operations and is responsible for designing, building, and optimizing our HR technology to support a rapidly growing employee population.

About the Role

We are excited to hire an experienced Workday Integrations Engineer who will design and implement automated workflows across our HR systems landscape.  The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in building and maintaining Workday integrations. They will excel in problem-solving, requirements gathering, and engaging with stakeholders to drive improvements.  This candidate will supercharge our ability to deploy technical solutions quickly and ensure that our integrations are built with the security and robustness we owe our HR data. This role reports to our Head of People Systems.

You'll be responsible for areas like:

• Design and Implementation: Work closely with HR, finance teams, and other stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into effective integration solutions.  Create detailed integration specifications, field mappings, and designs to support the entire integration deployment life cycle.

• Integration Testing: Develop and execute test plans to ensure integrations work as expected, addressing both functional and performance requirements.  Develop ways to scale testing and improve test coverage.

• Maintenance and Support: Provide ongoing maintenance and support for existing integrations, including troubleshooting and resolving any integration issues.

• Best Practices and Standards: Develop best practices and guidelines for integrating systems with Workday and ensure integration solutions adhere to security and data privacy protocols.

• Scaling: Build and create solutions that can apply to our global teams and growing staff.

 We're looking for someone with:

• Strong hands-on experience in Workday technologies: Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Advanced Report Writer, Cloud Connect (PICOF, PECI, CCW, CCB), Business Process Framework, Configurable Security, Calculated Fields, Custom fields, XML/XSLT, Studio, BIRT Reporting & data analytics, Workday Extend.

• Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills: Ability to troubleshoot and resolve integration issues.  Ability to dig into stakeholder’s requests and understand the root problems they’re looking to solve.

• Project Management: Experience in managing large architectural changes involving Workday and other systems.

• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills to interact effectively with HR stakeholders, IT, Finance, and end-users.

• HR Technology Familiarity:  Experience managing or integrating with other HR or business systems including, Recruiting, Learning & Talent Management, Data and Reporting, Headcount Management, Vendor Management, and Finance solutions.

Location and Workplace

This role is based either in our San Francisco office and we chose this location due to proximity to the existing team and XFN partners.

Our offices use a hybrid work model: three days in the office per week with optional work from home on Thursdays and Fridays. We offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Our open-plan offices have height-adjustable desks, conference rooms, phone booths, well-stocked kitchens full of snacks and drinks, three in-house prepared meals daily, a private outdoor space for working in the sun or socializing, nap rooms, private bike storage, and more.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

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