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 TeamThe Change & Release Enablement team is responsible for the smooth delivery of Workday’s software releases and infrastructure updates across our private cloud and public cloud datacenters. Our goal is to minimize impact to our customers and maximize innovation for our engineering teams by developing and leveraging best in class change management methodologies and frameworks!We are looking for someone with outstanding partnership abilities to coordinate and team up with our highly skilled Product Development, Infrastructure Engineering, Production Engineering, CI/CD Pipelines, GRC and SRE teams that span multiple geographies!About the RoleWorkday is looking for an inspiring and strategic people leader with proven experience of designing and governing change/release management practices in a complex production stack deployed in a multi-cloud environment. You will lead a team of subject matter experts and process architects to develop and consistently apply change and release management gold standards across a 7000+ strong engineering organization.Partner with change and release management leadership to develop a vision and strategy to scale the organization to effectively and efficiently govern traditional software releases, microservices deployments, independent service pipelines, infrastructure as code deployments and operations changesInspire and enable the team to develop deep industry expertise in the areas of change and release managementGovern, manage and optimize core cross functional review ceremonies and process operationsRecommend strategies to enhance the Change/Release framework to “self-serve” and “shift left” to Dev and QA to enable higher quality code pushesOngoing evaluation, intake, and prioritization of continuous improvement programs related to change/release managementAbout YouBasic QualificationsBachelor's degree in a related technical field (or equivalent professional experience and training)10+ years of industry experience of which a minimum of 3 years is in a people leadership capacity3+ years of experience working on Change/Release Management, ITIL or similar service management frameworksOther QualificationsStrong familiarity with software engineering principles, Source Code Management, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and Technical OperationsUnderstanding of data centers, cloud platforms, software deployments, monitoring tools, and databases.Proven experience leading fast-paced projects with Software Engineering, Product Management, Program Management, Service ManagementWorkday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.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.Pursuant 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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