Associate Manager, Software Development Engineering

About the Role

Are you a creative and innovative Software Manager looking for more opportunities to automate and improve reliability? Do you enjoy building solutions to improve efficiency or reduce toil and manual effort?

We are seeking a leader to join our growing, hard-working team. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on technical leader who can also provide managerial direction to a dedicated group of developers. We are looking for someone who is an excellent teammate, a go-getter, and has the empathy and desire to help their team grow both personally and professionally. If you have a passion for technology and enjoy researching new tools and techniques to discover innovative methods for automating operational tasks, you are looking in the right place!

We are keenly passionate about Workday’s core values, including innovation, integrity, and having fun!

About You

Mentor and lead a team of versatile engineers, contributing to design, code, unit tests, and integration tests in an agile environment

Collaborate with scrum teams to drive product roadmap by analyzing requirements, assessing impacts, and prioritizing tasks

Worked closely with development, service, customer support, and platform teams to continuously improve architecture, tools, and processes

Influence and strategically communicate key decisions to partners, peers, management, and the team

Ensure high-quality product delivery, encompassing both architectural design and adherence to code quality standards and best practices.

Drive and support innovation in our automation and processes

Attract, hire, mentor, and build out a team of highly skilled engineers

Encourage fun and think of innovative ways to support our core value of fun

Basic Qualifications :

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

6+ years of software design and development experience

Minimum of 2-3 years of leading teams and mentoring engineers within a development organization

Strong communication and organizational skills and ability to balance multiple priorities

Other Qualifications :

Experience in AWS / GCP Cloud application development is a plus

Have a strong understanding of CI / CD, SDLC, and Agile methodologies.

Drive technical design and architecture sessions

Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with diverse, global, and remote teams.

Proven ability to lead software development initiatives in a hands-on capacity

Ability to innovate and explore modern technologies to build new and exciting features / capabilities

Worked in a fast-paced environment with the mentality that everything can be automated

Aptitude for clear communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders