Sr Associate Support Engineer, Adaptive Planning AI, ML & Platform Operations

Workday, Inc.; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. in Pune, India, is seeking a customer-focused Support Engineer to join the Adaptive Planning support team, helping customers resolve issues in AI/ML SaaS workflows and financial planning tools.

This role requires hands-on debugging, incident handling, and strong SQL/API skills. You will work from the Pune office at least 50% of the time, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with product and engineering to improve reliability and performance across AWS/GCP-hosted

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year of experience in technical support, platform operations, or application support for enterprise SaaS environments.
• Minimum 1 year of experience writing and executing intermediate SQL queries and running diagnostic scripts.
• Minimum 1 year of experience inspecting API payloads (JSON or XML data structures) and utilizing basic Linux or Windows command-line tools.
• Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience navigating or monitoring services on public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Minimum 1 year of experience utilizing observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Kibana, Datadog) to view logs or trace outputs.
• Minimum 1 year of experience inspecting, reading, or evaluating AI/LLM conversation logs, traces, or prompt outputs.
• Minimum 1 year of experience performing initial queue triage and basic troubleshooting using ticketing workflows.
• Ability to manage multiple cases at once with some to no guidance around prioritization.
• Willingness and ability to work scheduled weekend and holiday coverage rotations.

Responsibilities

• Core Planning and Reporting Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot with customers on cases to resolve reported issues with their financial data, reporting, and/or financial integrations.
• Enterprise SaaS & Functional Domain Expertise: Apply foundational knowledge of enterprise applications to validate AI responses and assist in troubleshooting functional processing errors.
• Hands‑On AI Evaluation: Review LLM outputs, conversation logs, and execution traces to identify edge cases, hallucinations, and routine failure modes. Perform structured data labeling and report findings to senior engineering staff.
• Technical Troubleshooting & RCA: Assist in root‑cause analysis for software defects and pipeline execution failures using monitoring tools like Kibana and Grafana, following established diagnostic runbooks.
• Cloud & LLM Diagnostics: Inspect enterprise AI workflows hosted in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP), helping isolate breakdown points across model hosting services and API gateways.
• Incident & Queue Management: Monitor and triage support queues, enforce SLAs, and process incoming tickets efficiently. Support high‑severity incident responses and participate in weekend on‑call rotations.
• Customer Communication: Communicate clear technical updates, standard workarounds, and resolution steps to customer IT teams, working with senior support for high‑stakes escalations.
• Database & Code Diagnostics: Write standard SQL queries to validate backend data integrity, inspect REST/SOAP API payloads (JSON/XML), and execute existing Python or Bash scripts to run routine diagnostics.
• Documentation & Team Collaboration: Maintain detailed investigation logs in Jira, ServiceNow, or Salesforce, help maintain team runbooks, and flag recurring issue trends to senior engineers and product teams.

Skills

SQL queries

API payloads

Cloud platforms

Observability tools

LLM evaluation

Incident management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related

Tools

Kibana

Grafana

Datadog

Jira

ServiceNow

Salesforce

Job description

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 bring technical rigor, customer empathy, and a spirit of fun to enterprise software. Our support team underpins operational excellence across Workday's digital experience, AI/ML platform, and Agent Factory initiative—our internal engine that builds, trains, and deploys autonomous AI agents to execute complex HR and Finance workflows. Within this broader ecosystem, the Workday Adaptive Planning Support team plays a critical role in empowering our customers to build agile, data-driven financial strategies. We partner directly with core engineering, data science, and product development to eliminate bottlenecks, maintain high platform availability, and ensure system reliability across both traditional SaaS features and next-generation AI workflows for our global customer base.

About the Role

We are seeking a customer-focused Support Engineer who is excited about supporting AI/ML/SaaS functionality and platforms and passionate about helping customers solve complex problems. In this high-visibility, customer-facing role, you will manage a ticket queue of cases with varying complexity specifically for Adaptive Planning’s Financial and Workforce Planning products. You will drive incident resolution, root‑cause analysis (RCA), and performance optimization across both Workday Adaptive Planning’s enterprise web applications and autonomous AI agent workflows. Partnering closely with product and support analyst teams, you will help customers find timely workarounds and solutions while managing critical escalations within strict SLAs. A key part of this role will also involve hands‑on technical debugging and AI evaluation. You will analyze system metrics, debug cloud-hosted ML service pipelines, inspect LLM orchestration layers, review conversation logs, and dig into system traces to spot failure modes—translating those insights into prompt, data, and workflow improvements.

Location & Shift

Location: This position is based in the Workday Pune office. Candidates should be local to the Pune area or willing to relocate. Hybrid Work: Candidates will be expected to work from the office at least 50% of the time. Hours: Typical shift will be from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM IST. On-Call: Participation in an on-call rotation is required to provide after-hours support when needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Core Planning and Reporting Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot with customers on cases to resolve reported issues with their financial data, reporting, and/or financial integrations.
• Enterprise SaaS & Functional Domain Expertise: Apply foundational knowledge of enterprise applications to validate AI responses and assist in troubleshooting functional processing errors.
• Hands‑On AI Evaluation: Review LLM outputs, conversation logs, and execution traces to identify edge cases, hallucinations, and routine failure modes. Perform structured data labeling and report findings to senior engineering staff.
• Technical Troubleshooting & RCA: Assist in root‑cause analysis for software defects and pipeline execution failures using monitoring tools like Kibana and Grafana, following established diagnostic runbooks.
• Cloud & LLM Diagnostics: Inspect enterprise AI workflows hosted in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP), helping isolate breakdown points across model hosting services and API gateways.
• Incident & Queue Management: Monitor and triage support queues, enforce SLAs, and process incoming tickets efficiently. Support high‑severity incident responses and participate in weekend on‑call rotations.
• Customer Communication: Communicate clear technical updates, standard workarounds, and resolution steps to customer IT teams, working with senior support for high‑stakes escalations.
• Database & Code Diagnostics: Write standard SQL queries to validate backend data integrity, inspect REST/SOAP API payloads (JSON/XML), and execute existing Python or Bash scripts to run routine diagnostics.
• Documentation & Team Collaboration: Maintain detailed investigation logs in Jira, ServiceNow, or Salesforce, help maintain team runbooks, and flag recurring issue trends to senior engineers and product teams.

About You

Basic Qualifications (Required)

• Work Experience: Minimum 1 year of experience in technical support, platform operations, or application support for enterprise SaaS environments.
• Technical & Diagnostic Skills: Minimum 1 year of experience writing and executing intermediate SQL queries and running diagnostic scripts.
• Minimum 1 year of experience inspecting API payloads (JSON or XML data structures) and utilizing basic Linux or Windows command‑line tools.
• Cloud & Monitoring Systems: Minimum 1 year of hands‑on experience navigating or monitoring services on public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure). Minimum 1 year of experience utilizing observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Kibana, Datadog) to view logs or trace outputs.
• AI & LLM Exposure: Minimum 1 year of experience inspecting, reading, or evaluating AI/LLM conversation logs, traces, or prompt outputs.
• Triage & Operations: Minimum 1 year of experience performing initial queue triage and basic troubleshooting using ticketing workflows.
• Ability to manage multiple cases at once with some to no guidance around prioritization.
• Willingness and ability to work scheduled weekend and holiday coverage rotations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical work experience).
• Experience following established runbooks to perform guided, autonomous technical troubleshooting.
• History of drafting clear written technical documentation, post‑incident updates, or resolution notes for customer‑facing teams.
• Strong active problem‑solving skills and an adaptability to learn complex, multi‑tiered enterprise systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, combined with the ability to communicate with users at all levels and varying technical ability.
• Experience collaborating with internal development and/or QA teams, acting as a customer advocate.
• Had previous experience or knowledge of finance and/or financial planning software applications or integrations.
• Having these technical skills: ETL, tools (e.g., Pentaho) or Integration Implementation/Support; Jenkins & Git; Kubernetes and Docker; ELK or other log aggregation tool; JavaScript.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Workday is a proud equal opportunity workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Workday are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Further, pursuant to applicable local ordinances, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Accommodation and Accessibility

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 accommodation, 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. If you require a reasonable accommodation, you may email [e-mail], as far in advance as possible.