We are seeking a highly motivated and technical leader in this space. You are a high potential technology leader who understands technical and business realities and can articulate both near-term and long-term perspectives and be able to execute your vision. You have a track record in the delivery of software products with proven experience in building, managing and motivating a solid team of software engineers responsible for developing and deploying web-scale, SaaS-based solutions according to customer and business requirements.
About the Role
- In this highly technical role, you will help drive and execute the mission of Workday s distributed data systems that power our products
- Responsible for leading, motivating and developing engineering teams. Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentoring to the engineering teams.
- Lead the adoption of practices like service ownership, shift-left testing, DevOps, Secure Coding life cycle, continuous delivery, SRE, and software defined everything




- Ensure that the platforms operate at a very high degree of reliability and resiliency by focussing on monitoring/observability, automation, capacity planning, performance testing etc.
- Deliver amazing platform engineering outcomes through your teams in areas of ownership, building reliable, scalable, and highly performant services and features using industry best practices

About You
- Basic Qualifications10+ years of progressive leadership experience in high scale technology organizations(preferably in SaaS/PaaS) with demonstrated technical and business acumen. Must have demonstrated software development experience delivering new products to market
- Bring a people centric approach to leadership. Must have been a Manager of Managers. Must be good at mentoring leaders and engineers
- Experience with distributed systems, MPP databases, compilers. Must have hands-on experience with a few technologies like Elasticsearch, Hadoop, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra etc.
- Exper

📌 Director of Engineering (Chennai)
🏢 Workday
📍 Chennai