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Job Role: Director/ Senior Director Application (SME Workday & HR Automation/ Transformation) Skills: Workday, HRIS, HRMS, Workday and integration HR platforms including Workday HCM, Workday Recruiting, and integrations to payroll, benefits, background check and other vendor providers Location: Chennai/ Remote As the IT Senior Director, Applications, you will be responsible for identifying business improvement opportunities and delivering applications to meet these needs. You will oversee the configuration and implementation of applications that will be used by the departments within your scope of responsibility. You will partner with the business leaders to define, manage and deliver a portfolio of technology projects that improve business process capabilities. You and your team will evaluate needs and commercial as well as custom solutions to meet those needs. You will assist in defining and de-risking projects through experienced project planning for business application projects. This role has the experience to balance competing demands for both sustaining support and enhancements as well as large transformation projects including scope, time, cost, quality, resources, and risk. Job Requirements: 12+ years delivering and managing teams in the delivery of software applications and automation A minimum 5 years providing technical support for HR and Recruiting functions in a global environment with staff in excess of 25,000 employees. Public company/SEC experience preferred. A minimum 3 years managing teams in the delivery of Workday and integration HR platforms including Workday HCM, Workday Recruiting, and integrations to payroll, benefits, background check and other vendor providers Experience managing application service delivery and user support for applications Experience establishing priorities and schedules for business application projects. Experience with system and organizational planning to ensure business and service continuity Experience directing and measuring your teams in service excellence and in documenting and maintaining business process documentation, configuration guides, support knowledge bases, and user job aids. Extensive experience in requirements gathering for multiple business functions that gives you a breadth of exposure to anticipate business needs. Experience with advising and applying AI and Automation for business processing automation and workflow automation including Workday and other platforms (Workato preferred) Experience influencing IT and business executive management in setting direction and quickly identifying solutions to address business opportunities and challenges. Experience in resource/budget planning/forecasting and managing expenses to plan Senior level technical expertise and/or architecture experience are preferred Knowledge of project management practices is preferred Knowledge and experience with Recruiting Automation required. Preferred integrated platforms include TalkPush and Harver. Best of the Best: We pride ourselves in being a world-class leader in both business growth and employee culture. So how do we do it? First, we focus on hiring only the best talent, especially in leadership. Then we maintain high expectations for our leaders. You will join a leadership team where disciplined, high achievers put personal interests aside and focus on delivering fast, innovative results to help employees, each other, and the company succeed! What is required to succeed in our environment? You are an achiever who enjoys a challenge and has a high level of personal stamina. Your positive attitude is infectious to others and you are pragmatic and results oriented. You care about others, their success and their personal growth. You provide your team and peers the belief, leadership, and support they need to succeed. You invest time and focus in defining and providing learning and growth opportunities in their areas of interest and need. Your emotional intelligence allows you to tackle momentary business obstacles, high-pressure timelines, global demands, and changing priorities with grace. You know your strengths and also how you best partner honestly with peers in your areas of opportunity so that the entire team continuously grows stronger. You enjoy the numbers and external insights, and utilize KPIs and research to inform your measurement of performance and your decision processes You are influential and understand that good process comes before technology. You are able to share understanding of business objectives, and focus your business partners, IT collaborators, and your team on the successful completion of technology transformation projects on time and within budget. You are team-oriented and understand, while individual heroics are sometimes needed, the tribe mindset assures broader long-term success. The details are important to you and occasionally your work approach will be hands-on when you need it to be You exercise personal discipline to stay focused and define priorities in a high-paced global business environment You are creative and strategic, welcome and promote unconventional #ridiculous thinking. You are comfortable with expressing your viewpoint, as a viewpoint. You provide ongoing feedback and assessment of project status and issues to managers and executives and listen for areas for additional improvement. This isn’t just a job about implementing Workday or managing application portfolios. It’s about transforming how 25,000+ people experience their workplace — from how they apply, onboard, grow, and feel supported every day. We don’t just need a “Director of Applications.” We need a human-centered change agent — someone who sees systems not just as digital tools, but as gateways to human connection , trust, and empowerment. Show more Show less
