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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Director, Software Development Engineering - **Company:** Workday, Inc. - **Location:** Boulder, CO, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $232,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Integration, Disaster Recovery, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform System, Multi-Cloud, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Low Latency, Workday - **Published:** October 16, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/auth/login?destination=/job/sr-director-software-development-engineering/11711342 ## About the Role * 15+ years of experience in database engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, or a related technical discipline. * 8+ years of experience leading and developing management leaders, including Directors and Senior Managers. * 10+ years of experience building high-performing technical teams and delivering complex projects or programs. * Experience leading large-scale database engineering, cloud platform, infrastructure reliability, or public-cloud migration organizations. * Experience setting and delivering multi-year organizational and technology strategies in complex enterprise environments. * Experience with multi-cloud architectures, including AWS and GCP, and migration of global enterprise workloads. * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience., * Deep understanding of database reliability, disaster recovery, observability, incident management, performance engineering, and capacity planning. * Architectural knowledge of database internals, including replication topologies, engine tuning, and distributed-systems latency. * Experience with Kubernetes, container platforms, infrastructure as code, CI/CD principles, and automated operations. * Familiarity with AWS and GCP cloud environments and associated database services. * Demonstrated success improving platform reliability, migration throughput, operational efficiency, and customer experience. * Ability to influence and align executive partners across Engineering, Product, Customer Support, Cloud Operations, Security, and other functions. * Excellent executive communication, organizational leadership, relationship-building, and cross-functional collaboration skills. ## Description As the Senior Director, Database Engineering & Public Cloud Migration, you will lead two closely aligned engineering organizations: Database Engineering and Public Cloud Migration Engineering. You will establish a cohesive strategy across both portfolios while maintaining clear accountability, priorities, roadmaps, and operating models for each. This executive leadership role is responsible for organizational strategy, talent development, investment prioritization, cross-functional alignment, and delivery management. Database Engineering: You will set the strategy and organizational direction for database platform reliability, availability, security, scalability, and performance. You will lead the evolution from manual database operations to highly automated, observable, and resilient cloud-native platforms. You will establish standards for reliability engineering, incident management, disaster recovery, capacity planning, service-level objectives, and operational excellence. In partnership with Infrastructure, Cloud Operations, Security, and Product Engineering leaders, you will ensure the database platform meets current and future business needs, building an organization that reduces operational toil, improves recovery outcomes, and continuously strengthens platform resiliency. Public Cloud Migration Engineering: You will define the strategy, operating model, and multi-year roadmap for public-cloud customer migrations. You will lead the development and scaling of migration platforms, automation, tooling, and processes that enable secure, dependable, and efficient migrations. You will partner with Product, Customer Support, Cloud Operations, and customer-facing teams to align migration capacity, eligibility, priorities, customer commitments, and risk management. You will improve migration predictability, throughput, and customer experience, while advancing multi-cloud capabilities and platform standardization. Leadership: You will lead and develop senior engineering leaders, managers, and high-performing technical teams across both portfolios. You will set clear organizational goals, success measures, investment priorities, and delivery commitments. You will balance the distinct needs of database reliability and migration delivery while identifying opportunities for shared platforms, automation, and operating practices. You will represent both organizations in executive planning, cross-functional reviews, and strategic decision-making. You will foster a culture of accountability, inclusion, technical excellence, continuous imand provement, and customer focus., With Flex Work, we're combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter. Pursuant to applicable Fair Chance law, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Workday is an Equal Opportunity Employer including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. Workday is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals during our application process, in order to perform one or more essential functions of their job, as well as regarding the use of AI tools for employment decision-making to any degree. Please see below for more details including how to request an accommodation as a qualified veteran, due to a disability or for religious reasons, or as otherwise provided under applicable law. Workday prohibits taking adverse action against any candidate or employee for reporting a possible violation of this policy, requesting one or more work accommodations, exercising a privacy right, or cooperating in an investigation in accordance with applicable law. Any employee who retaliates against a candidate or employee for doing so may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment, to the fullest extent allowable under applicable law.