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 your engineers, support their career growth, and build a positive, inclusive, high-performing team
- Hire and retain solid 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

Other Qualifications:
- You see software development as a team sport and thrive in a collaborative, agile culture where you're always guiding and learning
- You focus on delivering high-quality software and continuous innovation, and you value performance engineering
- You're proactive and deliver on the initiatives you start
- You have the interpersonal skills to positively influence important decisions in a multi-functional environment
- You communicate technical complexity in simple terms to technical and non-technical audiences
- You have experience supporting team members' career growth and development
- You put people first and ensure a psychologically safe environment for your team

📌 Manager, Software Development Engineering (India)
🏢 Workday
📍 India