Workday + GitHub Integration
Workday GitHub integration simplifies onboarding and access — sync employee data and repo workflows automatically
Cut onboarding time for new hires by up to 70%
Eliminate manual access tickets and reduce IT overhead
Maintain audit-ready employee and repo access logs automatically
Today
Disconnected HR and Dev Workflows
- Manual handoffs between HR and engineering slow onboarding, create access errors, and cause missed SLAs.
- Teams reconcile Employee and User Account records from Workday, then manually provision GitHub Repositories, Teams, and access permissions.
- Managers file tickets for repo access and IT updates Organization and Position records.
- This creates data silos across Employee profiles, payroll assignments, and GitHub pull requests, increasing risk and delaying projects.
- Support staff waste hours fixing profiles; auditors lack consolidated logs, and hires wait days for access.
With Koodisi
Automated Sync with Koodisi
- Koodisi automates syncs between Workday and GitHub so HR, IT, and engineering teams stay aligned.
- Employee and Worker records, Position and Organization assignments, and payroll-linked user attributes update GitHub user accounts, Teams, and repository permissions.
- Koodisi routes Pull Request and Issue notifications back into Workday tasks or HR tickets, linking GitHub Repositories and PRs to specific Employees.
- Teams gain faster onboarding, accurate access provisioning, fewer tickets, and a single audit trail for compliance and security reviews across global teams daily.
The sync
What moves, in both directions
Workday and GitHub stay in step because the sync runs both ways.
Provision GitHub user accounts from Employee records, map Position and Organization to Team membership, grant repository permissions, revoke access on termination, and set repo templates based on cost center.
Push Pull Request and Issue events into Workday tasks or HR tickets, update Employee activity fields with PR metadata, log commits to audit records, and trigger HR or IT follow-ups.
Faster onboarding reduces time-to-productivity, eliminates manual provisioning errors, maintains accurate employee and access records, and delivers auditable change histories that improve compliance, reduce security risk, and free HR, IT, and engineering teams to focus on strategic work every business day.
Use cases
What teams automate with this integration
The work that moves between Workday and GitHub today, and what Koodisi takes over.
Onboard new hires with GitHub provisioning
- When Workday records a new Employee hire, Koodisi triggers a provisioning workflow.
- The Employee record, work email, Employee ID, job title, manager assignment, and cost center map to a GitHub user account, Teams membership, and repository access rules.
- Koodisi creates the GitHub account or invites the user, assigns team roles and repo permissions, and notifies IT and the hiring manager.
- New hires receive immediate repo access and starter documentation, reducing manual tickets and accelerating their first-code contribution timeline.
- HR retains audit logs, can report on provisioning time and access changes.
Revoke access on termination automatically across GitHub
- When Workday marks an Employee termination or offboarding event, Koodisi triggers access revocation.
- The Employee record, user identifier, termination date, and manager note map to GitHub user removal, team detachment, and repository permission revocations.
- Koodisi removes the user from Teams, rescinds collaborator access, and optionally transfers repository ownership or reassigns open issues to a manager.
- IT and security receive alerts and a rollback option for mistakes.
- HR gets a consolidated offboarding record for compliance, ensuring terminated accounts are deprovisioned quickly and consistently and reduce risk from unauthorized codebase access immediately.
Sync PRs and issues to HR tickets
- When a GitHub Pull Request is opened, merged, or an Issue is labeled, Koodisi captures PR/Issue metadata and the author’s GitHub username.
- It links the event to the corresponding Workday Employee record via email or employee ID.
- Koodisi creates or updates a Workday task or HR ticket with PR title, repository, branch, and commit summary.
- Managers see engineering activity in Workday, enabling timely performance reviews, training triggers, and recognition workflows.
- The sync preserves timestamps and links for audit and reporting.
- It reduces manual updates and speeds compensation and recognition processes.
Automate repo permissions for role changes
- When Workday updates an Employee's Position, Job Profile, or manager assignment, Koodisi triggers a permission adjustment workflow.
- The Employee record, new job title, department, and manager map to predefined GitHub Team rules and repository permission templates.
- Koodisi updates team membership, elevates or reduces repo privileges, and applies branch protections if required.
- Notifications go to the employee, manager, and IT security.
- A detailed audit record captures who changed access and when, improving governance and ensuring developers have correct permissions aligned with their current role and reduce risk from overprivileged accounts immediately.
The workflow
What this looks like when it runs
- Koodisi sits between Workday and GitHub and watches for business events that matter: new hires, terminations, role changes, and pull request activity.
- When a trigger happens, Koodisi reads the relevant Employee or Worker record from Workday and the corresponding repository or user information from GitHub, then maps fields like name, email, job title, manager, and repo permissions into the destination system.
- If a field mismatches or an action fails, Koodisi routes the error to a configured team with context and retry options so work continues.
- The no-code REST Client for both Workday and GitHub makes these mappings visual — operations teams map records and rules without writing code.
- This approach reduces manual steps, preserves an audit trail of every change, and ensures cross-team processes run reliably and transparently.
- It supports real-time triggers, scheduled syncs, replay of failed events, configurable mappings, and dashboard alerts in one place.
Employee → GitHub: Provision Account
- 1HR creates Employee in Workday — this hire event triggers the workflow
- 2Koodisi maps Employee name, email, job title, and Employee ID to a GitHub user template
- 3Koodisi creates or invites the GitHub account, assigns Teams and repo permissions
- 4Koodisi notifies IT and the hiring manager and logs the provisioning activity
Pull Request → Workday: Create HR Task
- 1A Pull Request is opened in GitHub for a protected repo
- 2Koodisi captures PR metadata and author and links to the Employee record by email
- 3Koodisi creates or updates a Workday task or HR ticket with PR details
- 4Managers receive the task, and the event is stored in the audit log
Governance
Automated, but still under control
Every run is authorised, recorded, and observable — the part that decides whether automation survives an audit.
Scoped permissions
Role-based access decides who can publish or run the Workday and GitHub workflows, and who can only watch them.
Every run recorded
Each execution writes an audit trail — what triggered it, what changed, and what the downstream system returned.
Credentials in Key Vault
Workday and GitHub credentials are stored and retrieved from Key Vault, never pasted into workflow steps.
Traced end to end
OpenTelemetry logs, metrics, and traces show where a run slowed down or failed, rather than reporting one aggregate status.
Routing rules stay readable
Which records sync, and which need approval first, live in a decision table your team can review and change without editing the workflow.
Sensitive fields masked
Personal and commercial values can be masked in logs so an operational record does not become a copy of your customer database.
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