Software Development Manager

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About the Team
Workday is unique in that it builds enterprise software in the cloud on a single codebase through a continuous development model allowing for rapid delivery of our software to our customers. The Workday Student product is built to meet the needs of today's colleges and universities. Our team's overall goal is to accelerate the delivery of new features for our Workday Student product in an agile environment, while safeguarding the high quality our customers expect from Workday applications.

Our team promotes Workday's core values with 'Employees' being the first of them. This is why we offer flexible work schedules on a hybrid work model, empower you to follow your desired career path and achieve professional and personal goals, encourage work-life balance and wellbeing, and are proud to champion equal opportunities for everyone.

About the Role

As a Software Engineering Manager in Atlanta, you will guide an application development team that supports our existing customers and develops new features to enable our Workday Student product. This is a great opportunity to lead a team of hardworking, dynamic and passionate software engineers!

Responsibilities

• Direct the activities of a software application development team delivering new features for Workday Student
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to deliver an outstanding Student product while taking ownership of technical design, programming, debugging and enhancement requests
• Interact with the development teams, product managers, QA and customers to solve everyday problems in an innovative way
• Understand and promote industry standards and methodologies
• Select, coach and evaluate your team to ensure their efficient operation

About You

The successful candidate will manage multiple priorities with competing deadlines, be passionate about building high quality enterprise applications, and be innovative in their ideas from a technical, process, and interpersonal relations point of view.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing a team of software developers as direct reports
• 5+ years of software development experience in object oriented languages such as Xpresso, Java, C#, Python, Ruby, Xpresso
• Experience leading a development team in an agile environment

Other Qualifications

• You have managed and coached software developers ranging in experience from new engineers up to seasoned professionals
• You see software development as a team sport, and thrive in a highly collaborative, agile culture where you're always teaching and learning
• You focus on delivering high quality software products and you value test automation
• You are proactive and able to deliver on initiatives that you start
• You have a strong background and technical capabilities in object oriented design and development
• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

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