Workday needs to build products and a platform that facilitate communication and collaboration for millions of Workday users worldwide, ensuring they receive the right information at the right time through various channels. The role is to lead and mentor an engineering team responsible for Workday's core communications platform, guiding them to design and deliver a highly scalable framework for handling large message volumes across multiple channels.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience developing software applications
- 8+ years of experience with design and development using an object-oriented language such as Java, Python, C, C++, etc.
- Proven experience in people management with a passion for mentoring engineers, guiding career growth, and fostering an inclusive environment.
- Experience leading teams that have built and maintained large-scale, high-throughput systems, preferably within the communications or messaging domain
- Strong architectural background with the ability to guide teams in making sound technical trade-offs for scalable, resilient, and well-tested software.
- An understanding of the landscape of enterprise communications, including regulatory requirements and security considerations.
- Experience with ERP application development or working within a large-scale enterprise SaaS environment is a plus.
Responsibilities
- lead and mentor the engineering team that owns Workday’s core communications platform
- guide your team to design and deliver a highly scalable framework built to handle large volumes of messages across multiple channels
- drive key decisions
- manage project execution
- develop a positive, high-performing environment
- shaping the technical roadmap
- ensuring the delivery of our services
Other
- 3+ years of experience building and directly managing impactful engineering teams
- Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with a track record of building partnerships with product management and other cross-functional teams.
- Ability to distill technical complexity and communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- A collaborative, team-first attitude with a focus on innovation and ownership of team initiatives.
