Senior Manager, Workday Deployment & Engineering

Workday; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday in Ireland seeks a senior manager to lead the Deployment Adoption Platform team. You will build and mentor a high‑performing deployment engineering group, guiding delivery from kickoff through go‑live and hypercare, ensuring configurations meet customer needs and align with best practices.

You will collaborate with customers, project managers, and architects to translate requirements into effective deployments and ensure seamless integration with customers’ systems, while promoting

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to deliver complex, multi‑stakeholder projects on time
• Coaching mindset with passion for developing talent and high‑performing teams
• Experience leading and scaling technical teams in Workday, ERP or enterprise SaaS deployments
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management with customers, partners and internal teams
• Deep understanding of Workday platform, deployment lifecycle and configuration best practices

Responsibilities

• Build, lead and mentor a team of Workday deployment engineers
• Ensure timely and high‑quality deployment delivery from kickoff to go‑live and hypercare
• Translate business requirements into effective Workday configurations and deployment plans
• Collaborate with solution architects and technical teams for seamless integrations
• Foster innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement across the deployment team
• Adopt best practices, tools and methodologies to accelerate deployments
• Resolve blockers with product, support and partner teams
• Ensure data privacy, security and compliance in deployments
• Maintain scalability, reliability and quality of deployment processes

Skills

Stakeholder management

Workday deployments

Leadership

Technical presentations

Influencing

Engineering management

Software development

Project management

Requirements analysis

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

Workday in Ireland seeks a senior manager to lead the Deployment Adoption Platform team. You will build and mentor a high‑performing deployment engineering group, guiding delivery from kickoff through go‑live and hypercare, ensuring configurations meet customer needs and align with best practices.

You will collaborate with customers, project managers, and architects to translate requirements into effective deployments and ensure seamless integration with customers’ systems, while promoting