Director, Software Development Engineering

Company: Workday
Location: Pleasanton
Posted on: May 23, 2020

Job Description:

Join our team and experience Workday!

It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing. At Workday, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications. We work hard, and we're serious about what we do. But we like to have a good time, too. In fact, we run our company with that principle in mind every day: One of our core values is fun.

Job Description

About the Organization:

Across the enterprise, the biggest business decisions are driven by data. We are stewards of our customers' most sensitive and complex data - people and financials. As our customers scale, the enterprise problems we seek to help them solve using their data grow exponentially. Every customer provides our Workday Analytics team with a unique set of complex challenges to solve. How we transform, blend, and analyze their data has a direct impact on the future of their business. Analytics is Workday's fastest-growing product at Workday ever. The opportunity to make a significant business impact, leverage the full extent of your technical expertise, and tackle the most complex industry problems is exceptional at Workday. Our teams own products and features end-to-end and thrive in a warm, collaborative environment dedicated to seeing our employees do their best work.

About the team:

Web UI & Visualization team is building polished and rich interactive user interfaces for data management and data visualization for Workdays Analytics. The team applies computer science and advanced software engineering principles to build delightful and performant products as well as cross-platform charting technology that powers them. The team is curious about how to push the browser to manage lots of data without compromising user experience. Our engineers have a background in graphics, mobile & web development and building UI frameworks & testing infrastructure. Tech Stack: JavaScript, ReactJS, CSS, HTML, Java, and other technologies and languages.

What you'll do:

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• Manage the development the application platform that drives modern and interactive user experience in data visualization, reporting and analytics
  
• Ensure that technical direction is clear and appropriate and followed within the team, that technical debt is accounted for and minimized
  
• Ensure productive collaboration with product management, user experience, and user research teams
  
• Mentor team members for career growth and personal development
  
• Recruit top talent to build a strong team in a rapidly growing environment
  
• Work with other development teams to ensure that deliverables are appropriately aligned
  
• Work with other Workday teams to resolve dependencies, on time
  
• Assist in infrastructure and personnel budgeting
  
• Provide planning for owned components/products/projects
  
• Use metrics to identify potential opportunities to further tune our implementation life-cycle
  
• Assess and mitigate risk
  
• Have fun engineering software
  
  
  You should be/have:
  
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  • A leader, not just a manager, who can motivate teams and manage a dynamic development environment
    
  • Passionate about software development and customer satisfaction
    
  • Passionate about the intersection of user experience and data visualization
    
  • Ability to build strong relationships with diverse teams within the organization
    
  • 15+ years software development management experience
    
  • Experience developing individuals as leaders
    
  • Minimum 10+ years experience with interactive web-based data visualization product
    
  • Proven track record of producing high quality software, on time
    
  • Experience working with Product Management and Product Owners to groom backlogs
    
  • Experience with UI development, ReactJS preferred
    
  • Strong communicator, of progress and mission
    
  • Bachelor's Degree or higher, Computer Science/Engineering
    
    
    Want to learn more about Workday:
    
    Workday Engineering Blog: https://medium.com/workday-engineering
    
    Workday Prism Analytics White Paper Summary: https://www.workday.com/content/dam/web/en-us/documents/datasheets/datasheet-workday-prism-analytics.pdf
    
    This Is Workday-Come Join Us!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC8reb1b7qQ
    
    Fortune Best Places to Work, #5: https://fortune.com/best-companies/2020/workday/

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