People Technology (HRIS) Integrations Lead

The Role:

Generate Biomedicines is seeking a People Technology (e.g. HRIS ) Integrations Lead to strengthen and expand the integrations connecting our People and business systems. This is a hands‑on builder role for someone who can design, develop, and support reliable, secure, and scalable integrations—with Workday at the center of the ecosystem.

Sitting at the intersection of People Technology, enterprise integrations, workflow automation, and applied AI, this role will help modernize how our systems, data, and employee workflows work together. You will own integrations from design through production support, partner with our in‑house Workday functional expert to translate business needs into technical solutions, and collaborate with Enterprise Technology to deploy practical automation and AI‑enabled workflows.

The work will directly improve employee experience, reduce manual effort, strengthen operational reliability, and help People & Culture adopt secure, sustainable technology solutions s is an exciting opportunity to build, troubleshoot, improve, and shape the future of Generate’s People Technology ecosystem. The People Technology Integrations Lead will sit within People & Culture (P&C), and report to the Executive Director, P&C Business Partner and P&C Technology.

This role is part of a highly collaborative team environment that balances in‑person collaboration with hybrid flexibility based out of our Somerville, MA office.

• Serve as the technical owner for People Technology integrations, including design, build, testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, documentation, and ongoing support.
• Design and support inbound and outbound integrations across Workday, Greenhouse, adjacent People systems, and other G&A platforms.
• Partner with functional owners to translate business requirements into technical designs, field mappings, validation logic, testing plans, and sustainable support models.
• Build and maintain integrations using APIs, webhooks, SFTP, flat‑file exchanges, middleware or iPaaS tools, scheduled data transfers, and event‑based automation patterns.
• Support vendor implementations, tool changes, and system enhancements by assessing downstream impacts and executing required technical updates.
• Monitor production integrations, resolve failures and data discrepancies, and improve alerting, reliability, and operational resilience across critical employee lifecycle and business process data flows.
• Create and maintain technical documentation including integration diagrams, field mappings, runbooks, support procedures, test scripts, and change documentation.

• Partner with the Workday functional lead to support integration‑related operational needs across Workday, including benefits, time and absence, payroll, advanced compensation, talent and employee lifecycle processes and tooling.
• Collaborate with the Workday functional lead to align functional configurations and technical integrations, ensuring cohesive end‑to‑end solutions.

• Partner with Enterprise Technology, People & Culture stakeholders, and AI teams to identify opportunities to leverage enterprise AI capabilities that enhance employee experience, streamline HR workflows, and improve operational efficiency.
• Support evaluation and deployment of secure, governed AI‑enabled workflows where they are appropriate and tied to clear business needs.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to People & Culture leadership and teams, bringing forward emerging AI capabilities and shaping a practical roadmap for AI‑enabled HR experiences and operations.

• Serve as the technical partner to P&C functional system owners, advising on scalable, secure, and supportable integration solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across People & Culture, Finance, IT, Security, Legal, Procurement, Data, and external vendors to deliver reliable end‑to‑end workflows.
• Communicate technical tradeoffs clearly, including risks, dependencies, support needs, testing requirements, and change impacts.
• Establish and promote best practices…