Job Description

Accountabilities:

• Lead and line-manage the Workday Process Engineering team, ensuring high-quality designs, consistent delivery, and strong outcomes across the group.
• Develop and execute global core process engineering strategies aligned with business priorities, leveraging design thinking, agile methodologies, and continuous improvement practices.
• Lead transformation initiatives across key Workday domains, including Core HCM, Compensation, Talent, Recruitment, Absence, and Time.
• Own major projects and programmes from requirements gathering and solution design through deployment, stabilization, and transition into standard service.
• Act as product owner for strategic process improvements, ensuring solutions remain aligned with user needs, business value, and long-term objectives.
• Analyze operational and business data to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, risks, and opportunities for process optimization.
• Oversee configuration management and maintain the integrity, consistency, and quality of process documentation and systems.
• Establish rigorous testing and quality assurance practices for new and modified processes, ensuring reliable implementation and user adoption.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across business functions to understand requirements and translate them into practical, scalable process solutions.
• Lead organizational transformation initiatives and promote a culture of innovation, agility, continuous improvement, and accountability.
• Conduct market scanning to identify relevant industry practices, emerging technologies, and opportunities to enhance Workday processes.
• Apply user experience design principles to create intuitive, accessible, and effective employee processes.
• Communicate process changes, expected benefits, progress, and outcomes clearly to stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Mentor and develop team members in process engineering, agile methodologies, product ownership, and transformation practices.
• Identify opportunities for process-driven value creation and contribute to broader business development initiatives.
• Participate in the Workforce Management Leadership Team, collaborating with colleagues across the wider Workday platform and integration ecosystem.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working with Workday, with a strong focus on core process engineering and transformation initiatives.
• Broad Workday expertise across multiple domains, including Core HCM, Compensation, Absence, Time, Talent, and Recruitment.
• Experience working in both consulting and corporate environments, with an understanding of different delivery and operating models.
• Significant experience leading enterprise-wide implementations of global systems and business processes.
• Proven experience leading teams and delivering successful outcomes while driving innovation within business-as-usual operations.
• Strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies and demonstrated application of broader agility practices.
• Proven experience in project and programme management, including planning, execution, monitoring, risk management, and delivery.
• Strong analytical thinking and data analysis capabilities, with the ability to turn complex insights into practical strategies and measurable improvements.
• Experience with product ownership, process design, configuration management, testing, and quality assurance.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, influencing, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across organizational levels and disciplines.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to navigate competing priorities, ambiguity, and organizational change.
• Experience developing and implementing transformation strategies and leading organizational change.
• Strong understanding of user experience principles and their application to enterprise processes and digital solutions.
• Experience identifying business development opportunities or creating value through process and technology improvements.
• Demonstrated talent management and coaching capabilities, with a focus on developing high-performing teams.
• Ability to work effectively in a hybrid environment based in Pune, India.
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 10% as required.
• Relevant academic or professional qualifications in technology, business, human resources, or a related discipline are advantageous.

Benefits

• Hybrid working model combining office and remote work.
• Full-time position based in Pune, India.
• Relocation assistance available within India.
• Flexible working arrangements may be considered depending on business and role requirements.
• Opportunities to work on global Workday transformation programmes and enterprise-scale process initiatives.
• Strong learning and professional development opportunities.
• Access to mentoring, coaching, and career development initiatives.
• Opportunities to participate in employee Business Resource Groups supporting inclusion, community, talent development, and professional growth.
• Inclusive and collaborative environment focused on diversity, equity, belonging, and continuous learning.
• Exposure to global technology, workforce management, digital transformation, and emerging technology initiatives.
• Approximately 10% travel expected with the role.