Job Title

HR Technology Platform Lead

About the Function:

Our Digital and Technology (D&T) team are innovators, delivering ground-breaking solutions that will help shape the future of our iconic brands. Technology touches every part of our business, from the sourcing of sustainable ingredients to marketing and development of our online platforms. We utilise data insights to build competitive advantage, supporting our people to deliver value faster.

Our D&T team includes some of the most talented digital professionals in the industry. Every day, we come together to push boundaries and innovate, shaping the digital solutions of tomorrow. Whatever your passion, we'll help you become the best you can be, creating career-defining work and delivering breakthrough thinking.

About the Role

The is accountable for the stability, cohesion, and evolution of the organization's Workday platform.

While large-scale transformation initiatives are led by a dedicated transformation team, this role ensures architectural consistency, product integrity, and long-term coherence of the Workday landscape across all change initiatives.

You will lead a team of approximately 20 professionals (internal employees, contractors, and vendor resources) and act as the single point of accountability for Workday IT services - covering BAU defect management, service requests, small enhancements, and cross-project solution alignment.

This is a senior management role requiring strong platform ownership mindset, operational discipline, and the ability to protect solution integrity in a complex stakeholder environment.

Job Title: HR Technology Platform Lead

Location: Bangalore, India

Contract Term: Full time

Reports into

The HR Technology Platform Lead will report to the head of People Value Stream within Diageo's Digital & Technology function.

Function

Global Digital & Technology

About the team

The People Value Stream is responsible for BAU operation as well as transformation projects related to systems and services supporting Diageo's HR function. Within this remit, Workday is our crown jewel central HR platform.

Role Overview

The HR Technology Platform Lead is the single person technology owner of Workday as our core product. They will define the architecture's direction, oversee engineering practices, and partner with other stakeholers to define the product roadmap. Also, they will direct the Workday daily operation for service requests, incident resolution, small enhancements, and also support and oversee technical resources allocated to major projects.

Job Description: HR Technology Platform Lead

Responsibilities:

. People Management

Direct a team of around 20 people, both employees and contractors

Manage capacity

Manage the capability evolution of the team

. PlatformStrategy

Support technologystrategyfor HR services

Defineplatformarchitectureprinciples

. EngineeringLeadership

Definedevelopmentandreleasepractices

improvequality,reliability,andspeed

. ArchitectureOwnership

Ownintegrationsandecosystemarchitecture

Guideconfigurationvsextensiondecisions

. PlatformGovernance

Ensureglobalstandards

Managetechnicaldebt

. Transformation

EnableHRdigitaltransformationinitiatives

. Stakeholder Management

Represent the product to external stakeholders

Act as internal Workday technology consultant

Manage relevant vendors

Our team is on a journey towards a improved Product operating model. The successful candidate will have a great opportunity use their relevant experience and make a big impact in creating a unit according to global best practices.

Experience / skills required:

Flexible Working Statement:

Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported from day one.

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Ourambitionistocreatethebestperforming,mosttrustedandrespectedconsumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

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