Release Manager Workday Platform

Workday•Atlanta, GA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Your work days are brighter here. We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too. About the Team At Workday, we help the world’s largest organizations adapt to what’s next by bringing finance, HR, and planning into a single enterprise cloud. We work hard, and we’re serious about what we do. But we like to have fun, too. We put people first, celebrate diversity, drive innovation, and do good in the communities where we live and work. Come be a part of something big! Our Corporate Business Applications team is currently looking for a Release Manager and migrator for the Workday Platform. The Release Manager is responsible for the entire release management lifecycle, ensuring a smooth efficient process for deploying configuration and development releases into the Workday production environment. This role coordinates with multiple teams to manage application updates, security improvements, and more. The Release Manager determines what is slotted in each release and helps resolve conflict with any potential competing priorities. This role will also serve as a central migrator resource to move configuration and development to the Workday production environment in alignment with the SDLC process. About the Role Workday Tenant Management: Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Workday tenant management, including configuration, security, and data management. Communicate effectively with all team members to keep them informed about changes, updates, and standard processes. Maintain data integrity within the Workday system, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance. Release execution and readiness: Develop and maintain documentation of the build/release process. Define release readiness criteria and ensure all changes meet criteria prior to deployment. Run the release management process, including leading weekly release meetings. Lead a variety of release related activities, including: updating release schedules and plans, release communications to team members, resource assignment, etc. Set and manage consistent deployment schedules, accounting for any dependencies and risks along the way while identifying issues to ensure they are not repeated. Serve as member of central migrator team to migrate configuration / development as part of the Release process Develop and facilitate the process for M&A, onboarding new acquisitions to the Workday Platform Quality Management: Work with WOW team to certify quality gates are documented and met for each release Issues management: Identify and track release issues, resolving issues where possible or escalating when needed. Assess and manage risks and drive mitigation activities. Business and process improvement: Find opportunities for business or process improvement in the change control process; make associated recommendations as appropriate. Define KPIs to track release metrics and drive improvements.

Requirements

8 years of demonstrated ability in data conversion, configuration migration, or release management using industry standard release management tools such as JIRA and ServiceNow, and techniques.
4 years of experience with data conversion (mapping, transforming, and loading data) using Workday technologies such as iLoad, EIB, Advanced Load, Object transporter

Nice To Haves

Advanced skills with ETL, SQL/MySQL, XML, Microsoft Excel, stored procedures or other data tooling
Experience with technical consulting, requirements gathering, or solution design
Experience with Workday data migration, integration development, report building, or software development
Advanced understanding of the complete software implementation lifecycle - including data requirements gathering, dataset migration, data reconciliation, and move to production
Solid understanding of Agile, Safe-Agile, Scrum, Kanban methodologies
Ability to facilitate release planning meetings to articulate release components and deliverables with high level audiences.

Responsibilities

Workday Tenant Management: Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Workday tenant management, including configuration, security, and data management.
Communicate effectively with all team members to keep them informed about changes, updates, and standard processes.
Maintain data integrity within the Workday system, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance.
Release execution and readiness: Develop and maintain documentation of the build/release process.
Define release readiness criteria and ensure all changes meet criteria prior to deployment.
Run the release management process, including leading weekly release meetings.
Lead a variety of release related activities, including: updating release schedules and plans, release communications to team members, resource assignment, etc.
Set and manage consistent deployment schedules, accounting for any dependencies and risks along the way while identifying issues to ensure they are not repeated.
Serve as member of central migrator team to migrate configuration / development as part of the Release process
Develop and facilitate the process for M&A, onboarding new acquisitions to the Workday Platform
Quality Management: Work with WOW team to certify quality gates are documented and met for each release
Issues management: Identify and track release issues, resolving issues where possible or escalating when needed.
Assess and manage risks and drive mitigation activities.
Business and process improvement: Find opportunities for business or process improvement in the change control process; make associated recommendations as appropriate.
Define KPIs to track release metrics and drive improvements.