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Manager, Software Development Engineering

Workday Chennai, IND Hybrid senior full-time

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Description

We're seeking a Manager, Software Development Engineering in DT (Deployment Technology) to lead a team building the next generation of enterprise tooling that makes adopting Workday features faster, easier, and more reliable for customers and implementation partners.

About the Role You will lead engineering teams working across multiple programming languages, technologies, and platforms, guiding the delivery of high-quality software that supports customer deployments and configuration movement across Workday environments.

Team Leadership

  • Mentor and develop engineers, support their career growth, and build a positive, inclusive, high-performing team
  • Hire and retain strong talent, set clear expectations, and give regular, honest feedback
  • Foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and accountability

Delivery and Operational Excellence

  • Align technical execution with business priorities, and give your team the clarity, direction, and support to deliver
  • Plan and deliver complex technical initiatives by ensuring requirements are well understood, risks are managed, and dependencies are coordinated
  • Own the reliability, performance, and supportability of your team's services in production, including incident response and continuous improvement
  • Hold your team to high standards for quality, predictable delivery, and operational readiness
  • Plan capacity and priorities so your team can deliver sustainably

Stakeholder Partnership and Communication

  • Partner with engineering, product, customer success, and implementation teams to define priorities and shape the roadmap
  • Influence architectural and technical decisions, and build alignment across teams
  • Communicate proactively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, surfacing progress, risks, and trade-offs early rather than waiting to be asked

About You Basic Qualifications:

  • 3+ years of experience building and directly managing engineering teams
  • 8+ years of software development experience building cloud-based applications in an object-oriented language such as Java, Python, C#, or C++
  • Experience owning delivery and production operations for software services, in partnership with product and other cross-functional teams
  • Bachelor's degree in a computer-related field, or equivalent work experience

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.

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