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Workday · 2 weeks ago

Sr Director, Software Development Engineering

positionPleasanton, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityDirector/Executive
money$268K/yr - $402K/yr
date15+ years exp

Workday is a leading AI platform focused on managing people, money, and agents. The Senior Director of Capacity and Cloud Analytics Engineering will define the strategic vision for cloud cost optimization and capacity engineering, leading initiatives that enhance infrastructure management and data analytics across the organization.

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Responsibilities

Define, implement, and cultivate the global strategy and multi-year roadmap for cloud cost governance, infrastructure optimization, and capacity engineering, ensuring maximum value extraction from Workday’s cloud investments
Drive alignment and accountability as a key strategic partner and advisor to Workday’s Executive Leadership (VPs, SVPs) in technical and business functions to define cloud investment priorities and drive enterprise-wide financial accountability for cloud spend
Provide executive leadership and mentorship to a global organization of Directors, Senior Managers, Data Engineers, FinOps Data Analysts, and DevOps professionals, ensuring the delivery of high-impact optimization solutions at scale
Drive groundbreaking Change leading multi-functional initiatives to integrate FinOps principles across Workday, applying our data platform capabilities to drive large-scale behavioral and architectural changes related to cloud usage
Elevate engineering excellence coordinating the advancement of host, pod, container and JVM runtime optimization initiatives globally. In doing so, maintain a significant data modeling and analytics platform used by all development and finance teams across the company
Foster a strong culture of ownership, innovation, and open-source teamwork within the organization and across technical partners
Represent the organization’s vision and strategic progress clearly to audiences at all levels, including executive steering committees and financial leadership

Qualification

Cloud cost governanceCapacity engineeringData engineeringAWS/GCP servicesFinOps principlesData modelingObservability toolsCloud deployment practicesLeadershipCommunication skills

Required

15+ years leading sophisticated engineering organizations, with at least 5 years managing Directors or leading multi-disciplinary organizations responsible for global platform strategy
A consistent and verifiable record of building, scaling, and retaining top engineering talent for a high velocity team
7+ years as a Software Engineer or hands-on technical contributor, demonstrating deep understanding of platform infrastructure
Extensive experience (5+ years) working with AWS/GCP public cloud services in a capacity/FinOps context
Demonstrated deep practical knowledge of FinOps principles and proven success in optimizing cloud usage and spend at a substantial scale
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting complex technical and financial strategy to executive and executive-level audiences
Master's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

Preferred

Experience handling organizations with significant contribution to or management of open-source projects
Deep familiarity with modern data frameworks (dbt, Airflow, Spark) and data modeling/warehouse platforms
Extensive exposure to observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) and SQL query engines (Trino/Presto, Delta Lake, or Hive)
Expertise in cloud deployment practices including GitOps, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD

Benefits

Workday Bonus Plan
Annual refresh stock grants

Company

Workday

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Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company's human resources and financial management activities.
dateFounded in 2005
location
Pleasanton, California, USA
people-size10001+ employees
web-link
http://www.workday.com

H1B Sponsorship

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2023 (262)
2022 (503)
2021 (290)
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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$2.23B
Key Investors
Elliott Management Corp.New Enterprise AssociatesGreylock
2025-09-16Post Ipo Equity· $2B
2012-10-12IPO
2011-10-24Series F· $85M

Leadership Team

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Aneel Bhusri
CEO and Co-Founder
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Peter Bailis
Chief Technology Officer
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