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About the Team
At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work.
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Our HR Finance Business Applications team is currently looking for a Release Manager and migrator for the Workday Platform. The Release Manager is responsible for the entire release management lifecycle, ensuring a smooth efficient process for deploying configuration and development releases into the Workday production environment. This role coordinates with multiple teams to manage application updates, security improvements, and more. The Release Manager determines what is slotted in each release and helps resolve conflict with any potential competing priorities. This role will also serve as a central migrator resource to move configuration and development to the Workday production environment in alignment with the SDLC process.
About the Role
Responsibilities
Workday Tenant Management:
Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Workday tenant management, including configuration, security, and data management.
Communicate effectively with all team members to keep them informed about changes, updates, and standard processes.
Maintain data integrity within the Workday system, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance.
Release execution and readiness:
Develop and maintain documentation of the build/release process.
Define release readiness criteria and ensure all changes meet criteria prior to deployment.
Run the release management process, including leading weekly release meetings.
Lead a variety of release related activities, including: updating release schedules and plans, release communications to team members, resource assignment, etc.
Set and manage consistent deployment schedules, accounting for any dependencies and risks along the way while identifying issues to ensure they are not repeated.
Serve as member of central migrator team to migrate configuration / development as part of the Release process
Develop and facilitate the process for M&A, onboarding new acquisitions to the Workday Platform
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
Business and process improvement: Find opportunities for business or process improvement in the change control process; make associated recommendations as appropriate. Define KPIs to track release metrics and drive improvements.
About You
Basic Qualifications:
8 years of Demonstrated ability with release management using industry standard release management tools such as JIRA and ServiceNow, and techniques.
8 years of Demonstrated ability in release plan creation and maintenance and conceptualization of release components and deliverables.
4 years of Experience mapping, transforming, and loading data from source to target software systems.
4 years of Experience leading a Data Conversion workstream on a software implementation
4 years of Experience with Workday data conversion technologies such as iLoad, EIB, Advanced Load, Object transporter
4 years of Experience with Workday data migration, integration development, report building, or software development
4 years of Technical consulting, requirements gathering, or solution design
Other Qualifications:
Advanced skills with ETL, SQL/MySQL, XML, Microsoft Excel, stored procedures or other data tooling
Experience with Workday data migration, integration development, report building, or software development
Advanced understanding of the complete software implementation lifecycle - including data requirements gathering, dataset migration, data reconciliation, and move to production
Solid understanding of Agile, Safe-Agile, Scrum, Kanban methodologies
Ability to facilitate release planning meetings to articulate release components and deliverables with high level audiences.
Experience using GitHub, Python and/or Ruby
Workday Pay Transparency Statement
The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things. For more information regarding Workday’s comprehensive benefits, pleaseclick here.
Primary Location: USA.GA.Atlanta
Primary Location Base Pay Range: $136,000 USD - $204,000 USD
Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $129,200 USD - $225,600 USD
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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