Senior Director, Software Engineering

Your work days are brighter here.

At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.

About the Team

Are you a seasoned leader with a strong background in Infrastructure and Production Engineering? Do you have the technical expertise to drive innovative solutions and a proven track record in managing resources (including technological) and stakeholders to ensure smooth business operations and enhance productivity and efficiency?
Our team is the driving force behind all Workday operations, providing crucial support for all Lifecycle Engineering Operations. We ensure that Workday’s maintenance and releases proceed without a hitch and are at the forefront of accelerating the transition to the Public Cloud.
We enable Workday’s Customer Success- 60% of Fortune 500 companies, 8000+ customers, 55M+ Workers, ~365B Transactions - and we’re continuously inventing to accelerate and enable Workday’s growth.

About the Role

Workday is hiring a Senior Director of Engineering to lead our SRE and Development Engineering teams. This pivotal role is integral to our mission of delivering superior customer experiences with agility, reducing time-to-market (consistently meeting Customer SLAs), and ensuring overall operational excellence with cloud-agnostic solutions. As a leader, you will guide teams towards excellence, continue to focus on automation and software solutions, enhance release confidence, and ensure a deterministic and auditable software development lifecycle by providing necessary environments and services. The goal is to achieve seamlessness across a multitude of environments and the cloud. Join us on this exciting journey and play a key role in shaping the future of Workday.

About You

• 18+ years of Software Engineering experience, preferably in DevOps - IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS. Experience in delivering high scale, mission critical products running across hyperscalers like AWS, GCP and private data centers is a plus.

• 7+ years of people leadership experience, including experience creating a new talent pool to support the follow-the-sun model/24X7 global coverage, inspiring and mentoring managers and Principal engineers.

• Demonstrated technical leadership in at least two of the following domains: high availability architectures, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, SDET (Java engineers), DevOps Engineers (Ruby, Python), SDE (golang, ruby, Jenkins, ArgoWorlflows), SRE (ruby, python, argo), CI/CD pipelines and GitOps (Jenkins, Argo, blue green), and Service Mesh (Istio/Envoy). Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, Golang, Scala, Ruby, Java, FinOps, Linux/Unix, Redis, MySql/DynamoDB, SCM (source control Management), Automations (Jenkins/Bamboo). 

• 5+ years of experience in leading core infrastructure initiatives in Agile Development to lead with Business Agility. 

• Technical visionary with high credibility. Able to set and evangelize a holistic roadmap to drive long-term technical direction and strategy. Player/coach who can garner the respect of the technical team and attract top-tier SW talent.

• Self-starter with exceptional influencing skills. Able to work independently in highly ambiguous environments, with technical and business groups internally and externally. 

• Culture creator and change agent. Push boundaries and infuse the organization with modern technology and mindsets. 

• Robust understanding of modern SDLC and agile methodologies (Example: SAFe, Spotify Model, Scrum, Kanban, etc.) with a bias towards action. 

• Experience in “follows the sun” and high-velocity organizations is a bonus. 

• BS in a computer science or related field. MBA or Master’s degree is a plus.

Our Approach to Flexible Work
 

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!