Workday Deployment and Migration Lead

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 Team

Workday, founded in 2005, stands as a groundbreaking force in the human capital and financial management industry, with a global presence and a diverse array of customers. Across our offices worldwide, our teams are united by a shared dedication to innovation, collaboration, and excellence!
Joining our team means embarking on a journey of opportunity to advance your career and contribute to impactful solutions that shape industries. Whether you thrive with solving sophisticated business problems, collaborating with agile teams, or championing innovation and software design, Workday offers an environment where your talents can thrive.
Our Product Development and QA organization spans across various products, serving a wide range of customers worldwide. Every project you undertake with us contributes to Workday's outstanding culture, core values, and dedication to excellence. We're proud to have received numerous awards and accolades for our products, outstanding workplace culture, and commitment to sustainability. With your talent, we continue to lead the way in cloud technology and make a difference in the lives of our customers worldwide!

About the Role

Our HR & Finance Business Applications team is currently looking for a Workday Release Lead (Migrator) for Workday Platform. The Sr. Data Conversion/Release Lead is responsible for deploying configuration and development releases into the Workday production environment in alignment with the SDLC process. This role coordinates across multiple teams to manage application updates, security improvements, and more.

Release execution and readiness: 

• Develop and maintain documentation of the build/release process and long-term plan to automate deployments. 

• Define release readiness criteria and ensure all changes meet criteria prior to deployment.

• Serve as member of central migration team to migrate configuration / development as part of the Release process

Quality Management: 

• Work with WOW team to certify quality gates are documented and met for each release

Issues management:

• Identify and track release issues, resolving issues where possible or escalating when needed. Assess and manage risks and drive mitigation activities. Act as scrum of scrum lead and facilitate product owner sync to resolution

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 8 years+ experience in code/deployments in Workday or similar SaaS technologies

• Experience with Workday data migration, integration development, report building, or software development

• Experience with Workday data conversion technologies such as iLoad, EIB, Advanced Load, Object transporter 

• Technical consulting, requirements gathering, or solution design

• Advanced understanding of the complete software implementation lifecycle - including data requirements gathering, dataset migration, data reconciliation, and moving to production

Other Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in release plan creation and maintenance and conceptualization of release components and deliverables.

• Solid understanding of Agile, Safe-Agile, Scrum, Kanban methodologies

• Advanced skills with ETL, SQL/MySQL, XML, Microsoft Excel, stored procedures or other data tooling

• Experience mapping, transforming, and loading data from source to target software systems.

• Experience leading a Data Conversion workstream on a software implementation

• Experience using GitHub, Python and/or Ruby

• Experience in implementation Jenkins, CI/CD pipeline

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.

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