Manager, Software Development Engineering

Your work days are brighter here.

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

About the Role

You will lead engineering teams working across multiple programming languages, technologies, and platforms, guiding the delivery of high-quality software that supports customer deployments and configuration movement across Workday environments.

Team leadership

• Mentor and develop your engineers, support their career growth, and build a positive, inclusive, high-performing team
• Hire and retain strong talent, set clear expectations, and give regular, honest feedback
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and accountability

Delivery and operational excellence

• Align technical execution with business priorities, and give your team the clarity, direction, and support to deliver
• Plan and deliver complex technical initiatives by ensuring requirements are well understood, risks are managed, and dependencies are coordinated
• Own the reliability, performance, and supportability of your team's services in production, including incident response and continuous improvement
• Hold your team to high standards for quality, predictable delivery, and operational readiness
• Plan capacity and priorities so your team can deliver sustainably

Stakeholder partnership and communication

• Partner with engineering, product, customer success, and implementation teams to define priorities and shape the roadmap
• Influence architectural and technical decisions, and build alignment across teams
• Communicate proactively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, surfacing progress, risks, and trade-offs early rather than waiting to be asked

About You

• 3+ years of experience building and directly managing engineering teams
• 8+ years of software development experience building cloud-based applications in an object-oriented language such as Java, Python, C#, or C++
• Experience owning delivery and production operations for software services, in partnership with product and other cross-functional teams
• Bachelor's degree in a computer-related field, or equivalent work experience

• You see software development as a team sport and thrive in a collaborative, agile culture where you're always guiding and learning
• You focus on delivering high-quality software and continuous innovation, and you value performance engineering
• You're proactive and deliver on the initiatives you start
• You have the interpersonal skills to positively influence important decisions in a multi-functional environment
• You communicate technical complexity in simple terms to technical and non-technical audiences
• You have experience supporting team members' career growth and development
You put people first and ensure a psychologically safe environment for your team

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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