Workday Platform Manager

The Workday Platform Manager leads the management, development and continuous improvement of the Workday platform, ensuring it is reliable, secure, well governed and aligned to organisational priorities. The role provides platform leadership across configuration, release planning, service performance, supplier engagement and operational support, working closely with People, Finance, Procurement, IT colleagues and other business teams that rely on Workday-enabled processes.

The role is responsible for establishing clear ownership, controls and ways of working for Workday as a strategic enterprise platform. It provides direction to technical and functional specialists, assures changes before they are introduced into the live environment, and helps teams make best use of the platform while managing risk, cost, resilience and colleague experience.

• Experience managing an enterprise business platform, ideally Workday or a comparable human resources, finance or corporate services platform.
• Strong understanding of platform governance, release management, change control, environment management, testing, service transition and operational support.
• Experience of PaaS (Platform as a Service).
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and delivery in agile.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering enterprise-grade platform improvements in a complex organisation.
• Good understanding of identity and access management, role-based security, audit controls, data protection and compliance requirements.
• Experience working with integrations, application programming interfaces, middleware, data flows, reporting dependencies and supportable interface design.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating business needs into clear platform priorities and outcomes.
• Strong supplier and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to balance service performance, platform roadmap, cost and risk.
• Familiarity with IT service management practices, including incident, problem, change, knowledge and service request management.

• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
• Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
• 3 additional wellbeing days and 2 paid volunteering days
• Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption pay
• Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover
• Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service

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