Workday Platform Governance Lead

U.S. Bank • Hopkins, MN

23h • Hybrid

About The Position

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to build a strong, scalable, and well-governed enterprise platform ecosystem. We are seeking a Workday Platform Governance Lead to serve as the central authority for platform governance, ensuring our Workday environment operates as a secure, reliable, and audit-ready enterprise platform supporting HR, Finance, and Procurement functions. This role blends program leadership, platform governance, and stakeholder alignment, with a focus on enabling consistency, control, and enterprise-wide coordination across multiple teams and domains.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
• Three to five years of relevant experience
• Strong understanding of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience with document management and governance practices
• Extensive experience in: IT project and program management, Project control, reporting, and governance frameworks, Project planning and organization, MS Project or similar planning tools
• Demonstrated ability to manage large, complex, cross-functional initiatives across enterprise environments
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders
• Experience managing competing priorities and driving alignment across multiple teams

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Workday advanced capabilities: Extend, Orchestrate, Prism Analytics
• Hands-on experience with test automation tools (e.g., Opkey or similar )
• Experience operating in regulated and audit-driven environments (e.g., banking, healthcare)
• Familiarity with ITIL, DevOps, and platform engineering practices
• Understanding of enterprise platform governance, release management, and lifecycle controls
• Experience with integration governance and monitoring frameworks
• Experience implementing or governing CI/CD pipelines in SaaS platforms
• Exposure to data governance frameworks and reporting ecosystems
• Experience working across multiple Workday functional domains (HR, Finance, Procurement)
• Knowledge of audit, risk, and compliance processes in large enterprises
• Prior experience in defining platform KPIs and operational metrics
• Familiarity with AI-driven automation or orchestration in enterprise platforms

Responsibilities

• Lead and govern the overall Workday platform, including tenant strategy, environment management, and release lifecycle oversight.
• Define, establish, and enforce enterprise governance standards across integrations, security, reporting, and environments.
• Oversee end-to-end integration lifecycle (EIB, Core Connectors, Studio, APIs), including design standards, onboarding, monitoring, and operational reliability.
• Drive platform governance across Workday capabilities such as Extend, Orchestrate, Prism, Security, and reporting frameworks.
• Establish and monitor platform KPIs including uptime, MTTR, integration success rates, and release cycle performance.
• Define and manage release governance processes, including Workday R1/R2 impact assessments, regression validation, and production readiness.
• Lead platform monitoring strategy using dashboards and analytics tools to ensure system health, uptime, and data accuracy.
• Own data governance practices, including tenant refresh controls, data masking/scrambling, and secure handling of sensitive data.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (HR, Finance, Procurement, Technology) to ensure alignment of platform capabilities with business needs.
• Facilitate governance forums, intake processes, and cross-functional prioritization.
• Develop executive-level reporting and communicate platform health, risks, and roadmap progress to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure audit readiness through comprehensive documentation of changes, approvals, testing evidence, and compliance artifacts.
• Drive test automation strategy (e.g., Opkey) to improve release confidence and quality.
• Enable adoption of automation and AI capabilities within governance frameworks.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and act as a key liaison across product, engineering, and business teams.
• Independently manage large-scale programs and project teams (20+ members), ensuring alignment to scope, quality, cost, and timelines.
• May manage and coach a small team, including performance management and staffing decisions.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior