Senior Manager, Architects

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About the Team

About the Role

As the Manager of the Enterprise Architects team you serve as the technical linchpin of our most critical sales cycles. We are seeking a highly specialized leader whose credibility is built on deep current engineering expertise not just solution management.

This role is paramount to both the Presales and Sales teams requiring a leader who transitions seamlessly from the deepest technical architectures to high-level business strategy. Focus areas for this role would be :

• People Management: Be a role model in people management: develop trust and motivation of the Solution Consulting team; ensure fair treatment of employees and continuous fact-based performance feedback is provided by Solution Consulting management to direct reports as well as regular and open communication; strive to retain reward and develop our best talent; develop all Solution Consulting resources to best support business needs; continually attract new talent in support of our vision/goals act quickly in addressing under performance situations; ensure excellence in all people related processes.

• Consulting processes complex sales management and innovation selling building and motivating high performing teams.

• Serve as a Business Partner to the Regional Sales Directors in deciding on focus industries account/opportunity strategy solution positioning and approach win themes value propositions etc.

• Planning: Contributes to ANZ HCM GTM plan and develops a Solution Consulting plan (resources skills processes etc) aligned with budget and productivity objective.

About You

Basic qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience managing or leading a high-performing technically focused Presales or Solution Architecture team.

• Minimum 10 years of deep technical domain experience in Cloud Architecture AI/ML or specialized platform engineering.

• A Masters Degree preferred (or Bachelors equivalent) in Computer Science Data Science AI/ML Engineering or Cloud Architecture or equivalent work experience demonstrating deep technical knowledge.

• Demonstrated ability to architect deliver and influence compelling technically rigorous presentations on complex platform and AI solutions to C-level technical executives (CIOs CTOs) and engineering audiences.

• Ability to get hands-on and conduct demonstrations on specific Workday technical capabilities to executive audiences

• Proven mastery of large-scale cloud architecture integrations and data governance in hyperscaler environments.

• Established track record of technical decision-making under pressure logically resolving architectural disputes and translating complex facts into decisive actions.

• Ability to lead and successfully execute on multiple competing high-priority sales projects simultaneously.

• Exceptional ability to technically influence and motivate highly skilled cross-functional engineering and architecture teams.

Other Qualifications

We require a candidate whose technical fluency is rooted in real-world production experience within leading cloud and AI organizations:

• Translational Technical Leadership: The ability to move seamlessly between hands-on architectural design and exceptional communication with technical C-level executives (CIO/CTO). You must translate deep technical capabilities into strategic business value.

• Cloud Architecture Mastery: Deep hands-on technical expertise in modern cloud architecture large-scale data governance and deployment methodologies within major hyperscaler environments (e.g. AWS Azure GCP). You must possess the authority to architect and defend complex enterprise-level solutions.

• Agentic AI Prototyping or Implementation Experience: Proven in-depth knowledge and implementation experience with current AI technologies including LLMs Agentic frameworks such as LangGraph Vertex AI Flowise vector databases and real-time AI inference systems. This should be practical knowledge not just theoretical.

• Security and Compliance: Expert knowledge in data security privacy and compliance requirements essential for deploying AI and cloud solutions in highly regulated markets (e.g. Public Sector Finance).

• Technical Solution Delivery: A collaborative and customer-focused mindset with a track record of designing and delivering tailored complex technical solutions that directly address critical customer pain points.

• Technical Velocity: A relentless commitment to continuous learning and adaptability specifically around the fastest-moving areas of technology: cloud platform evolution SaaS innovation and machine learning techniques.

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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