Sr Director, Software Development Engineering

About the Team

Workday is the enterprise AI platform for people, money, and agents. The Infrastructure and Production Engineering team (IPE) delivers it all with industry leading solutions to deploy, manage, secure and scale Workday reliably across the entire globe. We solve some of the companies hardest problems and joining our team affords you the opportunity of a life time to advance your career at one of the worlds premiere enterprise SaaS providers.

Whether you thrive by solving sophisticated business problems, collaborating with agile teams, or championing innovation, Workday offers an environment where your talents can grow. Our engineering team manages compute and network, performance and reliability, security and privacy supporting 100s of products and services to 10,000 customers worldwide.

Our winning technology is built on an outstanding culture, core values, and dedication to excellence. We're proud to have received numerous awards for outstanding workplace culture, and commitment to sustainability and we are looking for talented people world-wide.

About the Role

As the Senior Director, Capacity and Cloud Analytics Engineering, you will be responsible for defining the global strategic vision for Workday’s capacity engineering and cost optimization initiatives across private and public clouds. This critical leadership role sits within the Infrastructure and Production Engineering (IPE) organization and is tasked with establishing the long-term roadmap for production capacity optimization services as well as the Data Engineering and Analytics Platform powering Workday’s infrastructure management strategy.

You will operate at the intersection of infrastructure strategy, financial planning, and advanced data engineering, ensuring alignment across all major product lines and cloud infrastructure investments. You will lead the organization responsible for building scalable data systems, producing executive-grade analytics, and delivering automation crucial for optimizing cost and performance across Workday’s entire public cloud footprint.

This role requires a leader who can drive transformation, influence executive stakeholders (VPs/SVPs), and drive engineering rigor across a diverse, global organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, execute, and champion 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, Fin Ops Data Analysts, and Dev Ops professionals, ensuring the delivery of high-impact optimization solutions at scale.

• Drive transformational Change leading cross-functional initiatives to integrate Fin Ops principles across Workday, utilizing our data platform capabilities to drive large-scale behavioral and architectural changes related to cloud usage.

• Elevate engineering excellence overseeing 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 collaboration 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.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 15+ years leading complex 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…