Senior Software Engineering Manager

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 Workday Analytics team enables our customers to make smarter decisions with their data. We deliver innovative products that mine the data in Workday to provide actionable insights and simple to understand stories for our customers. We are a high growth team, constantly innovating and partnering with our customers. As an essential part of the Analytics team, our Data Infrastructure group is responsible for building a platform layer of software products and services that operate at the scale needed to serve the world’s largest organizations.About the RoleWe are looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager with a strong background in building large scale, highly available, distributed systems. You will be responsible for multiple complex initiatives and delivering a multi-cloud platform layer to enable the huge scale growth of Workday’s Analytics products. You will also be responsible for:Growing and developing a group of highly skilled, passionate software engineers.Fostering a culture of collaboration with engineering and product leaders to set technical direction on requirements and scope.Devising and delivering the technical strategy for orchestration and platform management software products that operate in a highly available, resilient and multi-cloud environment.About YouBasic Requirements:5+ years experience in a software engineering management role with strong leadership skills.Proven experience in delivering large scale software products and services.Other Requirements:Experience in working with distributed systems, specifically, understanding the internals of typical Big Data systems (such as Hadoop, Spark, Google DataProc, AWS EMR, Kubernetes).Strong industry experience in building highly scalable systems and public cloud based architectures.Ability to influence best engineering practices through solid decision making, processes and tools.Experience in effectively working with cross-functional organizations.Proven ability to recruit and mentor high performing teams of engineers.Experience with Java, Scala.Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!