Senior Manager, Data Platform & AI Observability

Workday, Inc.; Pleasanton, Boston, Atlanta (CA, MA, GA); Hybrid; CAD 384,000 - 415,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday, Inc. is hiring a Sr Manager, Software Development Engineer to build real-time analytics and large-scale data systems. You will lead the development of AI/ML based correlation engines and robust anomaly detection across vast data assets.

Collaboration across teams and cloud-native tooling is required. Ideal candidates have strong Java/Scala, Python, ML/NLP skills, and a track record with data lakes, AWS, Spark, Kafka, and orchestration workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Five years of experience in Java/Scala, Python, ML/NLP, and advanced deep learning models.
• Five years of experience with data lake, AWS, S3, Spark, Kafka, ML workflow orchestration, and intelligent decision systems.
• Master’s degree with two years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Responsibilities

• Enable real-time insights across Workday’s platforms, infrastructure, and applications.
• Develop large-scale distributed data systems that support crucial Workday applications.
• Provide software for the collection, ingestion, storage, analytics, and visualization of critical data assets.
• Manage hundreds of terabytes of data and billions of messages daily.
• Lead the development of AI/ML based correlation engine solutions for service outage detection.
• Design correlation engines to identify relationships between data sources for root cause analysis.
• Develop anomaly detection systems using ML to flag issues before impact.
• Collaborate on cross-functional projects and drive data modeling for strategic decisions.
• Innovate on next-gen ML/AI platforms leveraging existing data.

Skills

Java/Scala

Python

ML/NLP

Deep learning

Data lake

AWS

S3

Spark

Kafka

ML workflow orchestration

Intelligent decision systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Master’s degree in CS or related

Tools

AWS

S3

Spark

Kafka

Job description

Workday, Inc. is hiring a Sr Manager, Software Development Engineer to build real-time analytics and large-scale data systems. You will lead the development of AI/ML based correlation engines and robust anomaly detection across vast data assets.

Collaboration across teams and cloud-native tooling is required. Ideal candidates have strong Java/Scala, Python, ML/NLP skills, and a track record with data lakes, AWS, Spark, Kafka, and orchestration workflows.