Director of Data Engineering, Workday
ML/AI
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Enterprise management cloud platform
Open for applications
Enterprise management cloud platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide an all-in-one management cloud solution for the rapidly changing business requirements of the modern world.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience (10+ years) in data engineering, data management, or a similar role with 5+ years leadership experience in managing large teams (15+) a mix of managers, data engineers, software development engineers and more
- Deep technical experience; architecture-level strength in designing data platforms that meet business objectives in collaboration with a strong technical team
- Strong understanding of data governance principles, data quality management, data lifecycle, security, and compliance
- Experience building pipelines using large-scale data technologies such as Kafka and Spark on cloud platforms
- Experience in a machine learning or AI-driven organization
- Knowledge of AI/ML technologies such as GenAI , information retrieval (IR), recommender systems, query understanding and intent AI, LLMs, relevance AI, image and language understanding
- Expertise in managing streaming data pipelines at scale
- Experience in of MLOps / DevOps / CloudOps
What the job involves
- One of Workday’s most critical teams, The Data Engineering Platform is responsible for building hundreds of ML applications
- We aspire to make any data extractable and explorable, easily, for building many ML, AI and Data Insight features, to be embedded in Workday Apps and products
- The goal includes scale, resiliency, privacy, security, compliance, and governance, which are all at the foundation of what we do
- We enjoy the challenges of re-imagining a modern infrastructure to handle our ever growing scale
- Own the Charge: Lead our Data Platform Team, driving innovation in data ingestion and management within our secure machine learning development environments
- Build and Optimize: Design and oversee large-scale data ingestion pipelines, ensuring data integrity and security
- Collaborate: Partner with product teams, data scientists, and engineers to drive innovation and deliver outstanding results
- Mentor and Encourage: Foster a culture of technical excellence, empowering your teams to reach new heights
Our take
Workday is a cloud-based software vendor that provides management of workforces and finances. The company uses a single database for workforce management and financial management to offer integration and optimize business intelligence across companies. It has added to the packages and tools it offers over the years, providing analytic options that allow companies to combine third-party data with information collected by Workday.
Workday has acquired and paired up with many other companies to keep expanding its offering. In 2021, it purchased the employee feedback platform Peakon in response to the growing need for managers to be able to survey workers and collect satisfaction data without face-to-face meetings. The company has also bought and developed many financial tools and HR management tools.
The company’s goal is to provide end-to-end back office services and while there are other providers, such as UKG Pro and Ceridian HCM, Workday’s broad offering helps them to stand out. Though it faced a tough global market in 2023 and has shed some of its headcount, Workday has seen a 6.5% gain in value in the first quarter of 2024. It is now focusing on growth and developing the AI capabilities of its platform. .
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2011
$85m
SERIES F
Apr 2009
$75m
SERIES E
Total funding: $215.3m
Company benefits
- Company equity
- Vision and dental insurance
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Virtual primary care
- Flexible time-off policy
- Global mental health resources
- Global dedicated on-site clinical counselors
- Global well-being days
- $25k fertility/family planning benefits
- North Star financial wellness
- Retirement funds and matching
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Aneel Bhusri
(CEO)Worked for Morgan Stanley for 3 years and took a Stanford MBA, before spending almost 6 years at Oracle as SVP. Co-founded Workday in 2005 while working as a Greylock Advisory Partner.
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