Senior Director, Database & Cloud Migration Engineering

Workday, Inc.; Pleasanton (CA); On-site; USD 282,000 - 422,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. in Pleasanton, CA, seeks a Senior Director, Database Engineering & Public Cloud Migration to lead two engineering organizations and set a cohesive strategy across Database Engineering and Public Cloud Migration Engineering.

This executive role drives organizational strategy, talent development, investment prioritization, cross-functional alignment, and delivery management. You will build reliable, scalable cloud-native database platforms, lead multi-cloud migrations (AWS, GCP), and

Qualifications

• 15+ years in database engineering or related technical fields.
• 8+ years leading senior managers and Directors.
• 10+ years building high-performing technical teams and delivering complex programs.
• Experience with multi-cloud architectures (AWS, GCP) and migrations.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy for database platform reliability, security, scalability, and performance.
• Move from manual database operations to automated, observable, cloud-native platforms.
• Define migration roadmaps and scale migration platforms, tooling, and processes.
• Partner with Product, Customer Support, Cloud Operations and other teams to align priorities and risk management.

Skills

Executive leadership

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud infrastructure

Database engineering

Reliability engineering

Multi-cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

AWS

GCP

Migration tooling

Job description

Workday, Inc. in Pleasanton, CA, seeks a Senior Director, Database Engineering & Public Cloud Migration to lead two engineering organizations and set a cohesive strategy across Database Engineering and Public Cloud Migration Engineering.

This executive role drives organizational strategy, talent development, investment prioritization, cross-functional alignment, and delivery management. You will build reliable, scalable cloud-native database platforms, lead multi-cloud migrations (AWS, GCP), and