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 current products to market
Bring a people centric approach to leadership. Must have been a Manager of Managers. Must be valuable 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.
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📌 Director Of Engineering Chennai (India)
🏢 Workday
📍 India