Your work days are brighter here.At Workday, it all began with a conversation over breakfast. When our founders met at a sunny California diner, they came up with an idea to revolutionize the enterprise software market. And when we began to rise, one thing that really set us apart was our culture. A culture which was driven by our value of putting our people first. And ever since, the happiness, development, and contribution of every Workmate is central to who we are. Our Workmates believe a healthy employee-centric, collaborative culture is the essential mix of ingredients for success in business. That’s why we look after our people, communities and the planet while still being profitable. Feel encouraged to shine, however that manifests: you don’t need to hide who you are. You can feel the energy and the passion, it's what makes us unique. Inspired to make a brighter work day for all and transform with us to the next stage of our growth journey? Bring your brightest version of you and have a brighter work day here.About the TeamWelcome to Workday Engineering and Platform Experience (EPX) Group! We are a multi-functional team of highly skilled individuals collaborating to design and develop innovative solutions to Workday's most complex problems while improving the way our engineers work. EPX's Engineering Environments is an organization responsible for building scalable, cloud based instances of the Workday stack for Workday developers and testers, as well as the Workday Continuous Delivery pipeline. We are at the core of the Developer Experience, and are driving next generation environments and services for 5000+ Workday engineers. We are looking for a seasoned, passionate, and influential technical leader to be the senior most architect for this organization. If this sounds like the role for you, we'd love to hear from you!About the RoleYou will be responsible for the architecture of Engineering Environments. Working with and influencing other architects across the company, you will define technology standards that will lead Workday Engineers to the next level of productivity, scale, security, and resilience. You bring a balance of technical depth and interpersonal ability to drive collaboration and coordinate with partners throughout the organization. You understand the life of an engineer in a large scale distributed environment well and know how to improve it. You bring focus to and support the decisions that matter when using the cloud computing services.About YouYour ResponsibilitiesWork with geographically distributed teams to design and deliver development and testing environments in an automated, scalable, stable, cost effective and self service way to our end users.Develop company wide architecture standards and best practices to drive efficiencyProvide thought leadership, and drive the long term architectural vision of Workday Engineering Environments partnering with Product Management and Product & Technology development organizationsLead regular cadence calls with finance and senior management providing guidance on cloud financial management activities and cost optimization strategiesCollaborate with other engineers to solve our most sophisticated technical problems. This involves mentoring, peer reviews, design trade offs, and complex problem solvingImplement improvement initiatives such as methodologies, standards, processes, metrics gathering, reporting and tools to make teams more efficientBasic QualificationsExperience in building large scale, highly available, cloud native, multi-tenant, infrastructure platforms on public cloud, preferably in a consumer businessMinimum 3+ years of experience working on major public clouds like AWS or GCP infrastructure & platforms10+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS. Other Qualifications:Experience in delivering high scale, critically important products running across public clouds (AWS, GCP) and private data centers is a plus.Strong development experience with one or more of the following languages: Go, Scala, Java, Ruby, PythonExpertise in building platform using tools like Kubernetes, Istio, OpenShift, Linux, Helm, Terraform, CI/CDExperience in Networking, Security, and SOA (e.g: VPCs, Firewalls, HTTP/S, Certs, Load balancers, Proxies, caching strategies, etc.)Experience building large scale data platforms will be nice to have (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark/Flink, Airflow, etc.)Track record of driving technology transformation for application delivery, with strong understanding of the challenges that developers face when building and deploying cloud-nativeAbility to lead discussions about complex solution design tradeoffs and drive conflict resolutionStrong technology presentation skills. Ability to communicate both written and verbal, with technical and non-technical multi-functional teamsPrior experience re-architecting monolith applications to microservices will be a plusExperience with ML and an understanding of how to deploy it optimally to deliver benefitsBS degree in Computer Science (or equivalent), or 12+ years of software engineering and platform architecture experience, of which the last 3 years were as a Principal or architect (equivalent or higherStrong SDLC experience. Shown introduction of automation, shift left testing, driving metrics and improving observability As a federal contractor, Workday is requiring all new hires to verify that they are fully-vaccinated against COVID-19 within 72 hours of beginning employment with Workday, consistent with applicable law. Workday is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates who are not vaccinated due to a sincerely held religious belief, medical reasons, or other legally-protected reason should contact accommodations@workday.com to explore what, if any, reasonable accommodations or exemptions Workday is able to offer.Workday Pay Transparency StatementThe base pay range for the primary location of this job is 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 candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, future potential and internal pay parity. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, please click here.Primary Location: USA.CA.PleasantonBase Pay Min to Max Range: $232,000 - $348,000Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!
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