Workday · 2 days ago
Release Manager Workday Platform
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$126K/yr - $224K/yr
8+ years expWorkday is a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. The Release Manager is responsible for the entire release management lifecycle, ensuring a smooth efficient process for deploying configuration and development releases into the Workday production environment, while coordinating with multiple teams to manage application updates and security improvements.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareHuman ResourcesSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of Workday tenant management, including configuration, security, and data management
Communicate effectively with all team members to keep them informed about changes, updates, and standard processes
Maintain data integrity within the Workday system, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance
Develop and maintain documentation of the build/release process
Define release readiness criteria and ensure all changes meet criteria prior to deployment
Run the release management process, including leading weekly release meetings
Lead a variety of release related activities, including: updating release schedules and plans, release communications to team members, resource assignment, etc
Set and manage consistent deployment schedules, accounting for any dependencies and risks along the way while identifying issues to ensure they are not repeated
Serve as member of central migrator team to migrate configuration / development as part of the Release process
Develop and facilitate the process for M&A, onboarding new acquisitions to the Workday Platform
Work with WOW team to certify quality gates are documented and met for each release
Identify and track release issues, resolving issues where possible or escalating when needed
Assess and manage risks and drive mitigation activities
Find opportunities for business or process improvement in the change control process; make associated recommendations as appropriate
Define KPIs to track release metrics and drive improvements
Qualification
Required
8 years of demonstrated ability in data conversion, configuration migration, or release management using industry standard release management tools such as JIRA and ServiceNow, and techniques
4 years of experience with data conversion (mapping, transforming, and loading data) using Workday technologies such as iLoad, EIB, Advanced Load, Object transporter
Advanced skills with ETL, SQL/MySQL, XML, Microsoft Excel, stored procedures or other data tooling
Experience with technical consulting, requirements gathering, or solution design
Experience with Workday data migration, integration development, report building, or software development
Advanced understanding of the complete software implementation lifecycle - including data requirements gathering, dataset migration, data reconciliation, and move to production
Solid understanding of Agile, Safe-Agile, Scrum, Kanban methodologies
Ability to facilitate release planning meetings to articulate release components and deliverables with high level audiences
Benefits
Workday Bonus Plan
Annual refresh stock grants
Company
Workday
Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company's human resources and financial management activities.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
Workday has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (331)
2024 (388)
2023 (262)
2022 (503)
2021 (290)
2020 (229)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.23BKey Investors
Elliott Management Corp.New Enterprise AssociatesGreylock
2025-09-16Post Ipo Equity· $2B
2012-10-12IPO
2011-10-24Series F· $85M
Leadership Team
Aneel Bhusri
CEO and Co-Founder
Peter Bailis
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
2026-01-09
Company data provided by crunchbase