Manager, Software Development Engineering

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Were obsessed with making hard work pay off for our people our customers and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people money and agents were shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join youll feel it. Not just in the products we build but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity empathy and shared enthusiasm. Were in this together tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether youre building smarter solutions supporting customers or creating a space where everyone belongs youll do meaningful work with Workmates whove got your return well give you the trust to take risks the tools to grow the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone including yourself youve found a match in Workday and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

About the Role

As a Manager Software Development Engineering in the Deployment Foundations space you will lead a team responsible for the platforms and tools that drive deployment and ongoing adoption of Workday features. You will combine technical leadership with people management guiding architecture and execution while fostering a healthy highperforming engineering culture.

You will manage a team working with modern programming languages and technologies to build secure scalable and reliable deployment experiences. Youll apply solid decisionmaking and technical project management skills to define roadmaps make tradeoffs and keep projects on track from requirements through delivery.

You will translate product and customer needs into clear technical direction influence crossfunctional partners and drive alignment on key technical decisions. You will mentor and develop engineers at different levels provide regular coaching and feedback and help grow their technical and leadership capabilities.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

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

• 8 years of experience developing applications using cloud-based technologies.

• 8 years of hands-on design and development experience with an object-oriented language such as Java Python C# or C.

• Strong proficiency running agile teams using Scrum including backlog grooming sprint planning and retrospectives.

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

Other Qualifications:

• You see software development as a team sport and thrive in a highly collaborative agile culture where you are both guiding and learning.

• You are experienced with development planning and tracking tools particularly Jira and use them effectively to drive transparency and delivery.

• You have a strong focus on delivering high-quality software products continuous innovation and you value test automation and performance engineering.

• You are proactive and able to take ownership and deliver on initiatives from concept through execution.

• You demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and can positively influence key issues and decisions in a cross-functional environment.

• You can communicate technical complexity in simple clear terms to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience supporting team members career growth and development through coaching feedback and clear development plans.

• You put people first and work to ensure a psychologically safe inclusive and supportive environment for team members.

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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