Senior Manager, Global Content Development Growth

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About the Team

Workday's global opportunity is huge. Our Globalization Content team within our Growth organization is focused on building, maintaining and operating fully localized configuration, integrations, reports and Extend applications that meet our customer's needs in global markets. By delivering a comprehensive catalog of content we enable the opportunity for Workday to serve our more customers effectively, winning more deals, reducing deployment cost and total cost of ownership. We deliver a clear return on investment for the business and help drive our global growth.

About the Role

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Development Engineering Manager to build and lead our team in the Chennai office. You'll play a crucial role in growing the team and its skillset, you will collaborate with stakeholders across the globe. This is a great opportunity to lead and contribute to a dynamic and critical platform in a fast-paced environment.

You will be responsible for leading a team of engineers, integration and configuration builders delivering high quality content for our global catalog. Critical responsibility will be driving team onboarding and domain knowledge ramp up, cooperating closely with our core team in Dublin. This role will require strong cross-team collaboration and communication to effectively bridge time zone differences and ensure seamless workflow. You will lead by example, leveraging your deep knowledge building world class software. You will promote a diverse and inclusive environment where employees are happy, energized and engaged, and who are excited to come to work every day.

Primary responsibilities of this role:

• Build and lead a multidisciplinary development team, drive them through technical challenges, delivering high-quality solutions that power Global Content at scale.

• Understand and promote industry-standard methodologies

• Coach and mentor team members to help them to be at their best, assisting with career growth and personal development.

• Foster an environment where communication, teamwork and collaboration are rewarded.

• Energize your team and have fun building!

About You

• 8+ years of experience in a Software Engineering role

• 4+ years proven experience leading and managing teams delivering software in an agile environment.

• Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience.

Additional Qualifications

• Working knowledge of distributed system principles.

• Demonstrated track record of delivering performant, resilient solutions in a business-critical SaaS environment.

• Solid understanding and practical experience with software engineering best practices (coding standards, code reviews, SCM, CI, build processes, testing, and operations).

• You have a strong focus on delivering high-quality software products, continuous innovation, and you value test automation and performance engineering.

• You demonstrate the interpersonal skills needed to positively influence important issues or decisions in a multi-functional environment.

• You have the ability to communicate technical complexity in simple terms to both technical and non technical audiences.

• Experience supporting team members career growth and development.

• You put people first and ensure a psychologically safe environment for team members.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we're combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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