Manager, Software Development Engineering

4 weeks ago


Vancouver, Canada Workday, Inc. Full time

About the Role

As the Manager of the Financials team you would:

Work closely with Product Management to determine release scope

Be a visionary for the team, setting and communicating the team’s technical direction and vision across the business leveraging data and insights.

Develop a culture of continuous improvement and fail fast

Have a passion for technology, regularly suggesting innovative techniques and directions

Form a cohesive development team, with a great culture, that can execute on business goals that have never been achieved before at Workday.

Have a business mindset, be pragmatic and know what to balance to get software delivered with the most impact on time

Map the high level business goals to actionable objectives and key results

Set priorities and can focus on the strategic plan

Have impressive communication and collaborative skills to manage and oversee projects with cross functional teams across the business and geographies

Be a great networker, forming trusting relationships in California and other locations with our stakeholders and customers

Provide coaching, mentoring and support to the team

Ensure high productivity of the team members. Provide support for their career growth and personal development.

Form a team the team that fosters our culture and enables our people to have great career experiences in Workday

Be an ambassador for our culture, where employees and customers come first and acting with integrity

Be agile, be able to pivot the team quickly

Empower your teams, motivating and making your teams and people successful

About You

Basic Qualifications:

8+ years delivering scalable SaaS solutions

8+ years OO software design and development experience

3+ years building and managing high performing engineering teams as well as hiring top class engineers

BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

Other Qualifications:

You care deeply about culture and foster collaborative, inclusive teams in which people are empowered to do their best work

Support and foster innovation 

You have delivered software in a SaaS environment and at scale and understand the tradeoffs between new innovation projects and projects running at scale

Experience in career growth and personal development

Working knowledge and basic understanding of Financial applications

Excellent communications and influencing skills across all levels of a large organization, as well as with external partners, stakeholders and customers

Excellent knowledge of distributed systems design and best practices

Experience with agile development methodologies

Attention to detail and deep understanding of engineering best practices



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