Sr Manager, Software Development Engineering, Workday Community

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

Join one of Workday's key strategic engineering organizations crafting the future of digital customer success! Our team, Community Engineering, has amazing workmates who are dedicated to building solutions that delight our customers. We collaborate daily and actively encourage each other to innovate and have fun while solving exciting problems.

Our team is guided by Agile, Dev Ops and SRE principles; we collaboratively design, implement, and deploy software solutions that delight Workday Customers as they deploy and maintain Workday, build connection, improve customer satisfaction, and stay connected to Workday. Does the idea of working with great people excite you? We invite you to chat with us further about the systems we build, the goals we have, and the people we need to grow our amazing team!

About the Role

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will act as a key leader for a team of engineers operating independently in our Pune office to design, build, and deploy new software spanning multiple platforms and services.

You will set the tone, leading not just the work, but the culture for our Workmates, representing them to cross functional leaders and the broader Customer Success organization within Workday.

Guide engineers of varying skillsets and focuses in their daily work, invest in their growth and careers, and enable them to thrive as part of a larger team.

Collaborate with Product Managers, Program Managers, and other Engineering Leaders to define a strategy for delivering on your roadmap responsibilities, clarify and communicate risk, and help us make important decisions to deliver for the business.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 12+ years of total experience and 6+ years of leading and developing software development engineering teams of multiple roles, including but not limited to development, quality assurance, dev-ops and automation engineering.

• Expertise in software development engineering; defining, implementing, and evolving development processes, tools, and strategies for high-quality software delivery.

• Enthusiastic and proficient communicator, collaborator, and leader. Has the empathy and patience to lead across teams, unify individuals while setting a high bar for performance.

• Ability to work flexible hours in the evenings, 2-3 nights a week in order to collaborate with key stakeholders and leadership in North America timezones.

• Proven hiring and performance management capabilities, having hired and ramped up multiple employees ranging from junior to senior roles across different engineering roles, collaborating with recruiting and onboarding teams to train employees up to successful outcomes.

Other Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.

• Understanding of Software Development lifecycles ranging from Kanban to Agile, quality processes, devops principles, and hands on experience deploying/maintaining new and updated software to distributed systems, particularly in AWS.

• Demonstrated capability in managing complex engineering teams and strategic initiatives.

• Deep familiarity with development lifecycles for projects utilizing programming languages and frameworks like Java Spring, Python, and React.

• Experience deploying and maintaining containerized applications in cloud systems such as AWS or similar infrastructure offerings.

• Solid understanding of People Management principles for leading large software development organizations and fostering a high-performance culture.

• Comfort with and capable of delivering Technical Presentations to executive and technical audiences.

• Capable of mentoring junior and senior developers, investing in their career growth and guiding to overcome challenges ranging from technical to collaborative in nature.

• Experience with collaborative platforms such as Discourse, Adobe Experience Manager, or Drupal is a plus.

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.

Workday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during our application process, in order to perform one or more essential functions of their job, as well as regarding the use of AI tools for employment decision-making to any degree. Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law.

Workday prohibits taking adverse action against any candidate or employee for reporting a possible violation of this policy, requesting one or more work accommodations, exercising a privacy right, or cooperating in an investigation in accordance with applicable law. Any employee who retaliates against a candidate or employee for doing so may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment, to the fullest extent allowable under applicable law.

If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email [email protected], as far in advance as possible.

Are you being referred to one of our roles? If so, ask your connection at Workday about our Employee Referral process!

At Workday, we value our candidates’ privacy and data security.  Workday will never ask candidates to apply to jobs through websites that are not Workday Careers. 

  

Please be aware of sites that may ask for you to input your data in connection with a job posting that appears to be from Workday but is not.

  

In addition, Workday will never ask candidates to pay a recruiting fee, or pay for consulting or coaching services, in order to apply for a job at Workday.