Role Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Workday Release Manager to lead end-to-end Workday release planning, governance, and deployment activities. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Workday release management, impact assessment, release governance, stakeholder communication, and coordinating cross-functional teams in global SaaS environments.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead end-to-end Workday release planning, coordination, and execution.
- Manage release governance, Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings, and Go/No-Go decision forums.
- Assess business and technical impacts of Workday releases and ensure deployment readiness.
- Coordinate release activities across HR, Payroll, IT, business teams, and external vendors.
- Manage release risks, dependencies, issues, and mitigation plans.
- Review Workday release notes and translate changes into actionable business and technical requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement by implementing lessons learned and scalable release governance processes.

Required Skills Strong understanding of Workday release management, including:

- Preview Tenants

- Feature Activation

- Backward Compatibility





- Known Issue Management
- Experience with Workday HCM modules:

- Core HCM

- Payroll (including Integrations)

- Talent

- Absence
- Working knowledge of Workday Integration Framework:

- Workday Studio

- Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB)

- Core Connectors
- Ability to analyze Workday release notes and perform business and technical impact assessments.
- Experience using Workday Community for release documentation, Known Issues, and Workday Brainstorm.

Program & Governance Skills
- Experience with Release Management frameworks such as ITIL, Protected, or equivalent.
- Strong experience leading Change Advisory Boards (CAB) and Go/No-Go governance.
- Experience managing cross-functional and cross-geography release dependencies.
- Strong risk identification, escalation, and mitigation planning skills.

Key Competencies
- Ownership & Accountability
- Structured Decision-Making
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Communication
- Continuous Improvement

📌 Workday Release Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 Optimum Solutions
📍 Bengaluru