Title: Workday Release Lead

Duration: 12 months

Location: Remote

Job Descriptions:

• Responsible for planning and execution of releases of Workday (incl. weekly, and biannual (sept., & march).


• Collaborates with the business teams and other work requestors on prioritization of requests.


• Maintains a work request pipeline for the Workday release team.


• Coordinates with HR COE and allied areas on new functionality, including features in bi-annual releases


• Responsible for testing activities prior to each release.


• Facilitates formal AEP change request process, in collaboration with IT, for system enhancements.


• Oversee system fixes for bugs as part of release management


• Maintain detail work pipeline references and provide regular reports to COEs, IT, Leadership as requested


• Serve as “Scrum Master” or “Dev Op” team lead for sprints in an agile style release delivery cycles


• Lead multiple release cycles simultaneously, may also lead larger project efforts


• Workday HCM background

Certifications is good to have, but not required.