Chief Technology Officer

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for IT operations, including infrastructure, cloud services, DevOps support, network management, system administration, and end-user support
• Ensure reliable, high-availability delivery of internal technology services aligned to business needs and SLAs
• Own IT service management practices, including incident, change, problem, and asset management (ITIL-aligned)
• Lead business continuity and disaster recovery planning, testing, and readiness
• Establish and manage the IT operations budget, driving cost optimization and operational efficiency
• Track and report on KPIs, SLAs, and operational risk metrics to executive leadership
• Drive automation and modernization initiatives to improve reliability and reduce manual effort
• Own day-to-day operational security management for company systems outside of product engineering
• Triage, track, and manage incoming security issues across platforms and stakeholders
• Serve as the operational lead for security incidents, including intake, assessment, escalation, documentation, and communication
• Partner with Engineering and IT to prioritize remediation efforts and manage risk-based tradeoffs

Head of Technology – Security Operations

• Responsible for maintaining Enterprise Technology’s Desktop Technology Strategy, ensuring that corresponding strategic goals are planned, advanced and achieved, and that they deliver business value.
• Provides direction for the vendor desktop strategy to ensure those technologies are cohesive and in sync
• Provide hands on technology expertise to current desktop systems
• Strengthens alignment by participating in in strategic and operational planning activities involving GTS service owners and top technical staff.
• Provides consulting on operational processes to maintain strategic alignment and minimize customer impact.
• Provides consulting for architecture team in reviewing strategic technologies and solution design.
• Constantly engage in challenging the status-quo and bringing in more value to the organization through in-house/external technology solutions
• Conducts research for IT projects that are strategic in nature.
• Assess various technologies, products, and services related to the management of performance-based information

Senior Desktop Technology Strategist

• Serve as the principal technical advisor to the CTO
• Define the long-term architectural North Star for the core platform
• Articulate and defend high-stakes architectural roadmaps to the Board
• Drive executive-level consensus on massive-scale transformations
• Lead the fundamental design of Workday’s next-generation Agentic AI Platform
• Provide end-to-end architectural authority over the infrastructure
• Architect the unified technical fabric that standardizes and scales technology
• Define the architectural standards for governed, explainable, and trustworthy AI
• Oversee the performance, stability, and unit economics of our most complex distributed systems
• Lead high-level design reviews across the entire engineering organization
• Elevate the craft of engineering across Workday by mentoring senior engineers

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Head of Technology – Security Operations

Senior Desktop Technology Strategist

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