Workday Team Lead

Here are the key things you will do to 'bring ideas to life'.

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.

Key challenges and complexities of role

• Balancing technical leadership with people management
• Driving technical standards
• Navigating cross-functional collaboration
• Skill development and succession planning
• Maintaining high moral and engagement
• Influencing and delivering outcomes

Key relationships

• Finance stakeholders
• IT Enterprise Applications team
• IT Shared Services Teams
• Product leaders, Program Managers, Solution Architects, IT Managers
• Workday Engineers

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.

o Required: Configuration and development experience in Workday Financials.

o 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.

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.

Job Highlights:

• Work setup – HYBRID: Need to go to office twice a month
• Work Timings - Flexible timings morning need to login for meetings at 6,7 or 8AM PH Time.
• Interview- 2 virtual rounds
• Benefits - Leave credits 15 day Vacation leave & 12 sick leave, HMO, performance bonus incentives.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Php130, Php134,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Company events
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Opportunities for promotion
• Paid training
• Promotion to permanent employee

Work Location: In person