Manager, Software Development Engineering

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About the Team

About the Role

This role is based in Atlanta (ATL) and leads a team of engineers in the HCM Development Compensation domain delivering critical capabilities used by customers globally. The role will provide strong people and technical leadership ensuring clear ownership predictable execution and high engineering standards.

The role partners closely with QA Product and other cross-functional teams to translate priorities into reliable scalable solutions. Role will be accountable for delivery health technical quality and overall group effectiveness while fostering a culture of accountability growth and constant improvement. This is a hands-on leadership role suited for someone who thrives in complex fast paced environments and can bring clarity structure and momentum to execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead mentor and coach engineering teams to deliver high-quality software with empathy and effectiveness fostering strong collaboration across Product QA and Automation teams.

• Own end-to-end delivery for complex multi-release initiatives in the Compensation domain balancing delivery speed quality and sustainable technical health.

• Partner closely with Product and cross-functional partners to translate business requirements into technical execution and align on priorities and commitments.

• Drive engineering excellence by promoting strong design rigor test automation operational readiness and standard methodologies throughout the development lifecycle.

• Ensure reliability scalability compliance and security of Compensation system with a strong focus on correctness and customer trust.

• Lead with a growth mindset using data and metrics to monitor delivery health and team effectiveness proactively identifying risks and opportunities for improvement.

• Champion innovation and modern platform practices including API-first design and extensibility while encouraging experimentation and continuous improvement.

• Promote an inclusive engaged team culture aligned with Workday values ensuring teams feel energized supported and motivated to deliver impactful work.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 3 years of experience building and directly managing impactful engineering teams.

• 10 years of software engineering experience.

• Hands-on experience with programming languages such as C# Java or XO.

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP).

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Engineering or a related technical field.

Other Qualifications

• You ensure a psychologically safe environment for team members and have experience supporting career growth and development.

• You have a proven record of leading effectively across organisational boundaries and can communicate technical complexity in simple terms to non-technical audiences.

• You are proactive have a strong sense of ownership and can deliver on complex and highly technical initiatives with a high degree of autonomy.

• You have the ability to adopt new technologies quickly and maintain a team-first mentality.

• Experience leading software development in cloud-native API-first environments with services spanning web services integrations and backend systems (aligned to technical scope).

• Demonstrated ability to promote and scale engineering standard methodologies such as test automation strong design rigor culture.

• Proven track record of driving reliability security and compliance in critically important systems.

• History of using metrics and data to drive decisions about delivery health performance and continuous improvement.

• A growth-mindset leader who can challenge the status quo and inspire positive change within teams and across organizations.

• Experience in HCM or Compensation domains is a plus (helpful but not required).

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including but not limited to geography experience skills job duties and business need among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were 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 youll 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.

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