Workday Global Capability Center (Pune)

Workday's India Technology Centre in Pune is a rapidly scaling enterprise software GCC where approximately 3,500 engineers own product development for one of the most widely used HR and finance software platforms in the world. Established in 2017, the Pune centre has grown impressively fast and now represents nearly 20% of Workday's global workforce, with India engineers holding genuine product ownership over core Workday HCM modules, machine learning features, and the Workday platform architecture. The centre's rapid growth reflects Workday's acceleration of India engineering investment as the company scales toward its long-term revenue targets.

The most strategically important work at Workday India is in AI for workforce intelligence and HR analytics. Workday's Skills Cloud uses machine learning to build a dynamic skills ontology — mapping employee capabilities, inferring skills from job history and certifications, and matching employee skills to internal job opportunities. India machine learning engineers train and maintain these models, working on the challenging problem of understanding skill relationships and equivalences across thousands of job functions and industries globally. Generative AI is being integrated into Workday's HR workflows — helping HR business partners draft job descriptions, generate performance review summaries, and answer employee queries about their benefits and pay.

Workday India targets 4,000 employees by 2027, with growth in AI engineering and Workday Financial Management product development. The Viman Nagar campus in Pune provides modern infrastructure in one of the city's most desirable business districts, and Workday's distinctive engineering culture — centred on product quality, customer obsession, and the VIBE values of inclusion and belonging — creates an employee experience that consistently earns recognition as one of India's best places to work.

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