IT Workday Platform Manager

• Platform Strategy, Governance & Product Ownership:
• Serve as the Workday Product Owner and platform leader for Recruiting and Learning, owning the functional roadmap, enhancement backlog, release priorities, and continuous improvement strategy.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development, HR Operations, IT, Compliance, and business leaders to align Workday capabilities with enterprise talent goals, operational priorities, and compliance requirements.
• Evaluate new Workday features, emerging capabilities, and platform innovations to determine business value, adoption readiness, risk, and implementation priority.
• Define success metrics and monitor platform performance, including recruiting cycle efficiency, candidate experience, learning completion, compliance visibility, system adoption, support trends, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Workday Recruiting Leadership:
• Lead the design, optimization, and governance of Workday Recruiting capabilities, including requisitions, candidate management, job postings, interview processes, offer management, dispositioning, communications, approvals, templates, and recruiting security.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition leadership to improve recruiter, hiring manager, and candidate experiences through streamlined workflows, automation, data quality, reporting, and process standardization.
• Guide complex configuration decisions and ensure recruiting business processes are scalable, compliant, auditable, and aligned with upstream workforce planning and downstream hire, onboarding, payroll, and reporting processes.
• Oversee issue resolution, root cause analysis, enhancement prioritization, testing, and stakeholder communication for Workday Recruiting production support and projects.
• Workday Learning Leadership:
• Lead the design, optimization, and governance of Workday Learning capabilities, including learning catalogs, courses, lessons, programs, campaigns, assignments, enrollments, certifications, completion tracking, reminders, and learner access.
• Partner with Learning and Development, Compliance, HR Operations, and business stakeholders to support required training, onboarding learning paths, professional development, role-based learning, and compliance reporting.
• Ensure Workday Learning processes support accurate completion tracking, regulatory readiness, manager visibility, learner engagement, and reliable reporting for required and optional learning.
• Release Management, Delivery & Operational Excellence:
• Participate in Workday bi-annual release planning, impact analysis, regression testing, feature evaluation, deployment readiness, and adoption activities for Recruiting and Learning.
• Manage enhancement delivery from intake through implementation, including requirements definition, solution design, configuration oversight, testing strategy, change impact assessment, documentation, and post-production support.
• Partner with IT, integration teams, vendors, and managed service providers to ensure reliable data flows, secure integrations, timely issue resolution, and alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Maintain operational standards, support processes, knowledge articles, configuration documentation, testing assets, and controls to ensure platform stability and audit readiness.
• Stakeholder Engagement, Reporting & Team Leadership:
• Serve as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor for Workday Recruiting and Learning, providing strategic guidance, solution recommendations, and decision support to functional and technical stakeholders.
• Develop dashboards, reports, scorecards, and insights that support executive visibility, data-driven decision-making, compliance monitoring, and continuous improvement across Recruiting and Learning.
• Engage in cross-functional meetings, design sessions, prioritization discussions, stakeholder updates, training, and change management activities to promote alignment and adoption.

• Key skills; (“WORKDAY RECRUITING” OR “WORKDAY RECRUITING MODULE” OR “WORKDAY RECRUITMENT”) AND (“WORKDAY LEARNING” OR L&D OR LEARNING) AND (“WORKDAY HCM” OR “WORKDAY PRO” OR “WORKDAY PLATFORM ADMINISTRATOR”).
• Advanced functional and configuration knowledge of Workday Recruiting and Workday Learning, with the ability to lead solution design, governance, optimization, and issue resolution across both areas.
• Strong product ownership and platform management skills, including roadmap development, backlog prioritization, release planning, stakeholder alignment, and value realization.
• Ability to translate Talent Acquisition and Learning and Development strategies into scalable Workday solutions that improve user experience, operational efficiency, compliance, reporting, and data integrity.
• Strong understanding of recruiting lifecycle processes, learning administration, compliance training, role-based security, business processes, integrations, reporting, calculated fields, and downstream HR dependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, facilitate decision-making, manage competing priorities, and influence stakeholders at manager, director, and executive levels.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, define success measures, assess risks, and recommend actionable improvements.
• Knowledge of HR technology governance, data privacy, compliance requirements, audit readiness, change control, release management, and production support best practices.
• Excellent communication, documentation, training, and change management skills, with the ability to guide both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor s degree, required
• Master s degree, preferred
• FIELD OF STUDY:
• Accounting
• Finance
• Human Resources
• Information Technology
• 5+ years of experience in HR technology, HRIS, or Workday platform support, with significant hands-on experience in Workday Recruiting and Workday Learning.
• 3+ years of experience leading Workday initiatives, platform enhancements, roadmap planning, release management, governance, or cross-functional HR technology projects.
• Proven experience with Workday configuration and serving as a product owner, functional lead, platform manager, or senior Workday subject matter expert for Recruiting, Learning, Talent, or related Workday HCM capabilities.
• Experience leading requirements gathering, solution design, configuration oversight, testing, stakeholder review, change management, deployment readiness, and post-production support.
• Experience with Workday security, business processes, reporting, dashboards, calculated fields, integrations, data validation, audit controls, and production support for Recruiting and Learning.
• Experience partnering with Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development, HR Operations, IT, Compliance, Payroll, vendors, and business leaders to deliver scalable HR technology solutions.
• Experience with Workday reporting tools, creating and maintaining dashboards, and generating ad hoc reports.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to train and support users at all levels of the organization.
• CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES:
• Workday Recruiting, Workday Learning, Workday HCM, Workday Pro, or Workday Platform Administrator certification, preferred

Pay Range: $150000 - $160000/annum. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Our client is a leading Healthcare Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar fulltime positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration., By applying to our jobs you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Pyramid Consulting, Inc. and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy .