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Vice President of Engineering, Data Cloud

Workday•Pleasanton, CA
•$308,000 - $462,000•Hybrid
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About The Position

Workday is seeking a visionary, transformative, and execution-focused Vice President of Engineering, Data Cloud to lead a distributed organization of 230–250+ systems and software engineers. The role leads the design, development, and execution of core platforms powering the Data Cloud business unit and serves as a strategic partner to the Senior Vice President & General Manager. The Vice President will lead an engineering transformation that modernizes the technology stack away from legacy platforms such as Prism toward an open, high-performance data ecosystem. The role brings an outside-in industry perspective, builds a culture of operational urgency and constructive debate, and scales engineering capabilities to support Workday’s AI-driven growth. The Data Cloud team builds and maintains Workday’s foundational data layer, connecting HR and Finance data and supporting an open, zero-copy ecosystem for predictive modeling, real-time forecasting, and automated insights. Its work spans systems engineering, database design, cloud partnerships, lakehouses, unified catalogs, semantic layers, and integrations with partners including Snowflake, Databricks, and Salesforce.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of dedicated executive leadership experience managing large, multi-tiered engineering organizations; experience leading organizations of 150+ people is ideal.
  • Proven record of leading organizational transformations, increasing execution speed, and creating urgency without sacrificing cultural health.
  • Deep technical understanding of data technology evolution, including the transition from data warehouses to lakehouses, unified catalogs, and semantic/context layers.
  • Strong familiarity with cloud-native architectures, distributed infrastructure, and query optimization.
  • Awareness of external industry trends and willingness to challenge legacy practices by adopting modern external solutions, open-source frameworks, or strategic integrations.
  • Exceptional ability to navigate complex, matrixed environments and align engineering roadmaps with product management, corporate objectives, and executive leadership.
  • Strong analytical rigor and ability to adjust strategies while balancing architectural goals with business realities and execution speed.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience managing engineering organizations of 150 or more people.
  • Advanced technical degree (Master’s or Ph.D.).

Responsibilities

  • Lead, scale, and inspire a distributed organization of 230–250+ systems and software engineers, and identify, attract, and recruit top-tier talent.
  • Oversee strategic migration and modernization of data infrastructure away from legacy platforms such as Prism, accelerating adoption of industry-leading data cloud practices.
  • Foster a high-velocity engineering culture centered on operational discipline, accelerated execution, constructive debate, and intellectual challenge while maintaining an empathetic, respectful, and inclusive environment.
  • Drive end-to-end design, development, and debugging of robust software programs for core ecosystem enhancements and next-generation data products.
  • Influence systems architecture, distributed databases, low-latency query engines, and hardware compatibility requirements for high-performance cloud infrastructure.
  • Partner with the Senior Vice President & General Manager and product leadership to turn strategic vision into engineering plans, prioritizing open-source solutions, zero-copy technology such as Apache Iceberg, and AI-powered innovations.
  • Collaborate with external strategic partners to design and implement deeply integrated, high-performance, open data-sharing interfaces.

Benefits

  • May be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus.
  • May be eligible for annual refresh stock grants.
  • Comprehensive benefits are referenced, but specific benefits are not listed in the posting.

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