Workday Finance Team Lead

The Workday Finance Team Lead is responsible for the quality, capability, and performance of a team of software engineers delivering and supporting Workday solutions, including Financials, Reporting, Professional Services Automation (PSA) and Adaptive Planning. This role ensures the supply of skilled, high-performing engineers, while partnering with product leaders who own the application strategy and day-to-day priorities of the engineers.

The Workday Team Leader also provides technical leadership to the team, guiding development practices, supporting engineering decisions and promoting technical excellence.

What will you do?

Responsibilities:

Team Performance, Capability & Technical Leadership

• Lead and manage the engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, quality delivery, and continuous learning.
• Provide technical guidance across the team's work — including solution design, problem-solving, and application of best practices.
• Promote consistent use of standards, design patterns, and tools that align with Aurecon's broader technology architecture and principles.
• Oversee code quality, maintainability, and performance, and ensure robust peer review and development workflows.
• Support engineers in resolving complex technical challenges and guide the squad in adopting modern, scalable engineering practices.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and other technical leaders to ensure alignment with strategic platforms and patterns.
• Ensure that production issues are addressed promptly, with thorough root cause analysis and long-term fixes.

People Leadership & Development

• Support individual growth through coaching, mentoring, and feedback, and ensure clear performance expectations are in place.
• Conduct regular performance reviews, career development conversations, and capability assessments.
• Build a well-balanced and flexible team, focused on skill depth and succession planning.
• Optimise the team's capacity and skill mix, ensuring readiness to meet changing product needs.

Collaboration & Engagement

• Partner with product leaders to plan resourcing against demand, understand upcoming needs, and align on delivery expectations.
• Take ownership of team dynamic or performance issues, working to maintain high morale and engagement.
• Support effective communication between stakeholders and the team.

Essential skills and experience

• Demonstrated success in leading small, high-performing engineering teams within a multinational IT shared services environment, with a focus on fostering technical excellence and collaboration.
• Hands-on experience in the support, enhancement, and optimization of Workday Financials, Professional Services Automation (PSA), Reporting, and Adaptive Planning.
• Required: Configuration and development experience in Workday Financials.
• Preferred: Experience with PSA, Reporting, or Adaptive Planning modules.
• Strong understanding of software development standards, coding practices, and IT Service Management (ITSM) processes, ensuring high-quality, maintainable, and scalable solutions.
• Proficient in Agile Scrum methodologies, with a track record of delivering iterative value and adapting to evolving business needs.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow team members, set clear performance expectations, and cultivate a positive, inclusive team culture.
• Skilled in facilitating clear, effective communication between technical teams and business stakeholders, ensuring alignment on goals and expectations.
• Experience in measuring, analysing and reporting service and team performance to drive continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to make sound strategic decisions and resolve complex technical challenges effectively.
• Strong work ethic, with a commitment to accountability, transparency, and ethical leadership.
• Solid understanding of how enterprise systems support broader business objectives, with the ability to align technical solutions to strategic goals.
• Actively stays current with emerging technologies and demonstrates a commitment to ongoing professional development.

What can you bring to the team?

Firstly, strong sense of responsibility, flexibility, and adaptability to varying request. Demonstrate excellent time management and organizational skills. And as part of a new team, you will have the opportunity to shape this role and have input into how we evolve it over time to WOW our employees and make an even bigger impact on the world.

You will also need the following:

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or any related discipline
• 3+ years' experience in Team Lead / Technical Lead / People Manager roles specialized in Workday operations, support and development
• Configuration and Development experience in Workday Financials is required for this role
• Demonstrated success in leading small, high-performing engineering teams within a multinational IT shared services environment, with a focus on fostering technical excellence and collaboration.
• Experience with PSA, Reporting, or Adaptive Planning modules is preferred
• Hands-on experience in the support, enhancement, and optimization of Workday Financials, Professional Services Automation (PSA), Reporting, and Adaptive Planning

Our Aurecon Attributes describe the types of people we bring together for clients. We don't expect you to have all eight of the attributes, but one that is unique to you.

Finally, we value that each of our team members brings something different to Aurecon. We look for people who have had a broad range of experiences throughout their career and can demonstrate how they have worked as part of a team to bring ideas to life. Does that sound like you?