Sr Director, Software Development Engineering

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About the Team

About the Role

As the Senior Director Capacity and Cloud Analytics Engineering you will be responsible for defining the global strategic vision for Workdays capacity engineering and cost optimization initiatives across private and public clouds. This critical leadership role sits within the Infrastructure and Production Engineering (IPE) organization and is tasked with establishing the long-term roadmap for production capacity optimization services as well as the Data Engineering and Analytics Platform powering Workdays infrastructure management strategy.

You will operate at the intersection of infrastructure strategy financial planning and sophisticated data engineering ensuring alignment across all major product lines and cloud infrastructure investments. You will lead the organization responsible for building scalable data systems producing executive-grade analytics and delivering automation crucial for optimizing cost and performance across Workdays entire public cloud footprint.

This role requires a leader who can drive transformation influence executive collaborators (VPs/SVPs) and drive engineering rigor across a diverse global organization

Key Responsibilities

Define implement and cultivate the global strategy and multi-year roadmap for cloud cost governance infrastructure optimization and capacity engineering ensuring maximum value extraction from Workdays cloud investments.

Drive alignment and accountability as a key strategic partner and advisor to Workdays Executive Leadership (VPs SVPs) in technical and business functions to define cloud investment priorities and drive enterprise-wide financial accountability for cloud spend.

Provide executive leadership and mentorship to a global organization of Directors Senior Managers Data Engineers FinOps Data Analysts and DevOps professionals ensuring the delivery of high-impact optimization solutions at scale.

Drive groundbreaking Change leading multi-functional initiatives to integrate FinOps principles across Workday applying our data platform capabilities to drive large-scale behavioral and architectural changes related to cloud usage.

Elevate engineering excellence coordinating the advancement of host pod container and JVM runtime optimization initiatives doing so maintain a significant data modeling and analytics platform used by all development and finance teams across the company

Foster a strong culture of ownership innovation and open-source teamwork within the organization and across technical partners.

Represent the organizations vision and strategic progress clearly to audiences at all levels including executive steering committees and financial leadership.

About You

Basic Qualifications

15 years leading sophisticated engineering organizations with at least 5 years managing Directors or leading multi-disciplinary organizations responsible for global platform strategy.

A consistent and verifiable record of building scaling and retaining top engineering talent for a high velocity team.

7 years as a Software Engineer or hands-on technical contributor demonstrating deep understanding of platform infrastructure.

Extensive experience (5 years) working with AWS/GCP public cloud services in a capacity/FinOps context.

Demonstrated deep practical knowledge of FinOps principles and proven success in optimizing cloud usage and spend at a substantial scale.

Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting complex technical and financial strategy to executive and executive-level audiences.

Masters degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science Engineering or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Other Qualifications

Experience handling organizations with significant contribution to or management of open-source projects.

Deep familiarity with modern data frameworks (dbt Airflow Spark) and data modeling/warehouse platforms.

Extensive exposure to observability tools (Prometheus Grafana Datadog) and SQL query engines (Trino/Presto Delta Lake or Hive).

Expertise in cloud deployment practices including GitOps containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and CI/CD.

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

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