Sr. Software Engineer - Workday CoE Delivery Lead

Description

The company is building an offshore Workday delivery capability and needs a leader to set it up and run it.

You will establish and manage a high-performing offshore Workday team, build delivery capacity that can grow, and keep implementation and support work at a high standard while lining up offshore operations with the company's Workday direction.

This is a senior leadership role for someone with deep Workday experience and a track record of building and running teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and run the offshore Workday Center of Excellence, covering hiring, onboarding, coaching and performance management.
• Review security architecture and design across Workday HCM, Finance, Payroll, Integrations, Extend and third-party components.
• Own delivery from start to finish for Workday implementations, enhancements, integrations and production support.
• Work with business leaders, HR, Finance and technical stakeholders so delivery supports strategic goals.
• Set and enforce Workday governance, configuration standards, delivery methods and operating practices.
• Push continuous improvement through automation, process changes and operational excellence work.
• Lead Workday integration, monitoring and tenant management to improve platform reliability and performance.
• Run change control, including Change Advisory Board (CAB) activity, risk mitigation and release readiness planning.
• Act as the main escalation point for delivery issues while keeping work compliant with security, regulatory and audit requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Five to six years of relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of Workday HCM, Payroll, Financials or other core modules.
• Hands-on work with Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Core Connectors, PICOF and Workday Extend.
• Deep understanding of Workday security architecture, including role-based and domain security, business process security, segregation of duties (SoD) and compliance controls.
• Advanced skill in Workday Reporting, Security Administration and Business Process Configuration.
• Experience designing and supporting Workday integrations, data migration, tenant management and enterprise architecture.
• A record of leading offshore or global delivery teams in a Center of Excellence (CoE) or shared services setting.
• Solid Agile delivery background, including Jira, Confluence and scaled Agile frameworks.
• A proven record of managing KPIs, SLAs, operational metrics, stakeholder communication and executive reporting.
• Strong leadership, collaboration and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive results across cross-functional and geographically spread teams.

Conditions

You will work from a the company location three (3) or more days per week.

Accommodations for a disability are available during the application and hiring process; applicants can see the company's disability accommodations page.

Benefits

• Benefits are built to support your health, financial security and peace of mind, for you and your family, both at work and outside it.
• Healthcare covering medical, dental and vision.
• Basic term life insurance, with optional term life insurance available.
• Short-term and long-term disability cover.
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave.
• 401(k) plus an employer-funded retirement plan.
• Paid vacation of two to five weeks, depending on salary grade and tenure.
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities.
• Adoption assistance.
• Sick and Safe Leave accrues at one hour for every 30 hours worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless the law provides otherwise.
• Full benefits details are available by employment status.