Job Description

​​​The Principal WorkdayAdministratordesigns, develops, tests, deploys,monitors, and supports solutions. Ensures quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, performance, compatibility, andintegrationsof solutions throughout. Advances the team's technical foundation to deliver modern, simple, and secure solutions, and raises the skills within the squad.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for design, development, testing, maintenance, monitoring, and support of a platform or application. Maintains thoughtful application design that promotes reuse, portability, and ease of code maintenance. Builds subject matterexpertisein the business area that the platform or application supports. Leads with highautonomythe execution andutilizationof reference implementations, best practices, frameworks and standards, and architectural and design decisions within a squad. Notifies technical stakeholders of technical or functional changes.

• Contributes to the team's backlog to capture work that promotes the team's mission and advances the team's technical foundation. Partners with teammates to refine the product backlog. Partners withWorkday Adminsto leadthe team in breaking down larger bodies of work (epics) into smaller, well-understood items (stories) that can beaccomplishedin a single iteration. Ensure stories have clearly understood value and defined acceptance criteria. Communicate with key partners to understandscopeof planned work.Inform prioritization,identifydependencies, and influence theproductroadmap. Generates stories for backlog to address performance, non-functional requirements, tech debt, modernization, and simplification.

• Participate in team agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, backlog refinement, planning, review/demo, and retrospectives. Helps drive collaboration within the team through practices such as pair programming. Actively seeks ways to drive continuous improvement withinteam Leads team through resolution of blockers, and implementation of new practices identified as part of team's continuous improvement goals.

• Understands the team's application architecture and how it fits into the team's broader area as well as to the enterprise via key dependencies.

• Mentor’sindividualsin the squad on technical delivery. Works to build technical skills in teammates through direction, example, and by creating opportunities for others to learn. Participates in communities of practice on technical topics and encourages team members to join where technical interests or development opportunities align.

• Partners with established vendors on implementations, modernization, capability improvements, and framework updates. Influences partners' roadmaps. Performs technical evaluations and makes recommendationsaboutnew incoming solutions.

• Establishes and manages quality standards, decisions, and implementations. Leverages automation where possible to create efficiency and reliability in deliveryof Workday Ensures application, performance, uptime, and scale. Defines andmaintainshigh standardsof code quality.Participatein peer reviews to ensure quality, consistency, and knowledge transfer is part of regular delivery. Troubleshoots and fixes bugs and security risks.Identifiesbottlenecks, patterns, and potential solutions related to incoming bugs and defects to improve software efficiency. Partners with peers on software development lifecycle improvements. Creates andmaintainssupportplaybooks.

• Leverages best practices, technologies, and instrumentation to lead the team in regular monitoring and observation of health, availability, and performance of software in production to provideappropriate applicationsupport and inform roadmap/backlog improvements. Partners with the squad and peers across squads to diagnose performance issues found in monitoring.Identifiesand implements new monitoring and proactive alerting mechanisms to inform the squad of issues before problems reach consumers and stakeholders.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.