Connect Airflow and
Workday with AI

Redbird AI automates the sync between your data orchestration platform and enterprise HR system. Stop manually exporting employee data, building custom scripts to poll Workday APIs, or waiting for nightly batch jobs to update workforce metrics in your data pipelines.

No code required
Live in minutes
SOC 2 Type II

What you can automate today

Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.

Sync Workday employee data into data warehouse on schedule via Airflow DAG

Automatically trigger Airflow pipelines to extract employee records, org structure, and compensation data from Workday. Load transformed HR data into your warehouse for analytics without building custom API connectors or managing authentication refresh tokens.

Alert HR ops when Airflow pipeline processing payroll data fails or times out

Monitor critical Airflow DAGs that process payroll, benefits, or time-tracking data. Send alerts to Workday task management or email HR systems teams when pipelines fail, ensuring payroll processing deadlines are never missed.

Enrich Airflow pipeline metadata with Workday cost center and department hierarchy context

Pull organizational structure, department codes, and cost centers from Workday to tag and categorize data pipeline runs. Enable accurate cost allocation reporting and understand which business units depend on specific data workflows.

Automate headcount and attrition metric calculations triggered by new hire or termination events

When Workday records employee lifecycle events, trigger Airflow DAGs to recalculate workforce metrics, update dashboards, and refresh finance forecasts. Eliminate manual metric updates and ensure leadership has real-time visibility into headcount changes.

Archive completed Airflow job logs and audit trails to Workday document management

Automatically store pipeline execution logs, data lineage reports, and compliance audit trails from Airflow into Workday's document repository. Maintain centralized audit history for HR and finance data processing required for SOX or GDPR compliance.

Generate executive workforce reports by orchestrating Workday data extraction and transformation pipelines

Schedule Airflow workflows that pull workforce planning data, compensation trends, and diversity metrics from Workday. Run transformations, join with performance data, and deliver formatted reports to leadership dashboards automatically each week.

Live in four steps

No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Airflow and Workday with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.

02

Describe what you want

Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.

03

Review and activate

Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.

04

Let it run — and iterate

Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.

Built for data-driven teams

Redbird understands Airflow's DAG structure, task dependencies, and execution context alongside Workday's complex HR data models, organizational hierarchies, and API pagination patterns.

AI that speaks both data orchestration and enterprise HR

Redbird maps Airflow task runs, XComs, and sensor states to Workday workers, supervisory orgs, and effective-dated records. Our AI handles Workday's versioned data structures, automatically manages API rate limits and pagination, and transforms nested HR hierarchies into pipeline-friendly formats. No need to write custom operators or maintain brittle XML parsing logic.

DAG execution metadata
Worker and position data
Task dependency graphs
Org hierarchy flattening
10×

Faster than building custom Airflow-Workday operators and API wrappers

No custom hooks, no XML parsing libraries, no authentication token management middleware

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Airflow and Workday simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.

Trigger-based alerts

Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either Airflow or Workday.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.

Bidirectional sync

Push data from Airflow into Workday, or from Workday back into Airflow. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.

Full audit trail

Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.

Triggers & actions for every team

Start from any event in Airflow or Workday and automate data flows across your entire HR and analytics stack.

Airflow
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

DAG run completes

Trigger when any Airflow DAG finishes successfully, fails, or times out.

Trigger

Task fails with retries exhausted

Detect when a specific Airflow task fails after all retry attempts are used.

Trigger

Sensor detects new data

Fire when an Airflow sensor detects new files, API data, or database changes.

Action

Trigger DAG run with parameters

Start an Airflow DAG execution with custom configuration and runtime variables.

Action

Mark task success or failure

Programmatically update task state in Airflow based on external system events.

Action

Create or update variable

Set Airflow variables or connections to reflect current Workday configuration state.

Workday
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

New hire completes onboarding

Trigger when employee status changes to active after completing onboarding steps.

Trigger

Termination or transfer recorded

Detect when an employee is terminated, transferred, or changes supervisory organization.

Trigger

Payroll cycle closes

Fire when a payroll period is finalized and ready for downstream processing.

Action

Create business process task

Generate tasks in Workday workflows for HR ops teams to review data issues.

Action

Update custom organization field

Write computed metrics or data quality scores back into Workday organization records.

Action

Upload document to worker record

Attach pipeline audit logs, reports, or compliance documents to employee profiles.

Airflow
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Workday

Ready to connect your stack?

Connect Airflow and Workday in minutes, not weeks. Redbird handles the complexity of syncing data orchestration platforms with enterprise HR systems so your team can focus on building insights, not maintaining integrations.

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