Senior Manager - Core Platform Workday
Pleasanton, CA

Job Description

Join our team and experience Workday!

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. At Workday, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have a good time, too. In fact, we run our company with that principle in mind every day: One of our core values is fun.

Job Description

Are you passionate about building and leading talented engineering teams? Do you believe the only future for business applications is in the Cloud? Does leading edge technology rock your world? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment? Workday has immediate openings within the Core Platform team for experienced development managers.

The Core Platform team develops code at the very heart of Workday's technology stack. We are responsible for building most of the Workday computing infrastructure and application development platform including high performance transaction servers, a 4th generation OO language run time, an in-memory query and index engine, as well as cloud deployment and production management tools. Are you curious? Can you cover the requirements below? Give us a shout!

Responsibilities:

* Recruit and hire top talent for the core platform software engineering team.
* Lead one or more teams of dynamic software developers (direct reports and matrix managed) to build and maintain core platform that supports application development in SaaS environment.
* Provide clear vision for the team to support company's long-term business.
* Effectively drive the execution of many projects to achieve the long-term vision.
* Develop strong technical understanding and provide effective guidance in aligning technical architecture to support the business goal.
* Provide coaching, mentoring and support to the staff in both technical and non-technical issues. Ensure high productivity of the team members. Provide support for their career growth and personal development.
* Plan releases and schedule development. Provide estimates and initial assessment for proposed development tasks. Track and report progress of the project against key milestones. Balance resources with task assignments. Ensure on-time and high-quality delivery of the project.
* Keep stakeholders updated throughout the development cycle. Liaise with relevant parties, including product management, other development teams, production, product support, etc., to facilitate the release process. Manage development related customer escalation when needed.
* Contribute to process improvement within development organization. Institute and adopt best engineering practices.

Qualifications:

* Passionate about software development and building strong engineering team. Ability to attract, retain, motivate and inspire the team.
* 10+ years' experience in commercial enterprise software development. 5+ years' experience in leading a software development team.
* Strong organizational skills. Experience in planning and execution of software development project. Exposure to agile development methodologies.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills.
* Strong ability to mentor developers. Good at recruiting and team building.
* B.Sc. in Computer Science or related fields.
* Experience in a fast-paced environment.
* Strong technical knowledge in software development. Knowledge in Object Oriented run time system and in-memory distributed system a strong plus.

Working at Workday is no ordinary work day. Whether it's our spirited company meetings, high-caliber workforce, recognition programs or company events, we strive to surpass expectations while celebrating everything that makes us unique.

Join our team and experience Workday!

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