Director, Enterprise

Director, Enterprise Applications Flexible Location WHO WE ARE

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• Own the strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for Workday, ensuring work is aligned to organizational priorities and delivers sustained value over time.
• Establish and maintain clear governance and operating expectations, including how work is prioritized, how decisions are made, and how changes are managed.
• Partner with business leaders to define problems, evaluate options, and drive decisions, balancing business needs, platform capabilities, and organizational risk.
• Ensure work is evaluated in the context of end-to-end business processes and outcomes, not individual requests or point solutions.
• Lead prioritization and trade‑off decisions, making constraints visible and focusing the organization on the highest‑value work.
• Lead and develop a team of functional and technical delivery experts, ensuring the right work is prioritized, delivered effectively, and continuously improved.
• Provide clear direction and decision‑making, ensuring delivery teams are not required to arbitrate business trade‑offs or assume implicit risk ownership.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of the platform, including enhancements, releases, and ongoing improvement, ensuring it remains reliable, scalable, and fit for purpose.
• Maintain strong platform health and integrity, including data quality, auditability, compliance, and alignment with vendor capabilities and constraints.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement, using stakeholder feedback, performance data, and evolving business needs to inform roadmap and investment decisions.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field;
  Master's or graduate degree required, or equivalent executive‑level experience.
• 3+ years of progressive experience leading enterprise IT strategy, operations, or applications with significant organizational impact.
• Proven success leading delivery across ERP, CRM, or application development portfolios.
• Required:
  
  Direct experience implementing, administering, or leading enterprise application portfolios that include Workday Financial Management.
• Preferred:
  Experience with Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and its integration with financial, operational, and reporting processes.
• Experience with software development lifecycle practices and tools such as Jira, Confluence, or Git Hub.
• Strong project and program management skills, including familiarity with agile methodologies and change management practices.
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets, optimize costs, and make investment recommendations grounded in financial analysis.
• Excellent communication skills with a track record of influencing executives, cross‑functional stakeholders, and delivery teams toward shared outcomes.
• Experience operating within governance, portfolio management, or portfolio…