Lead or co-lead the Architecture Review Boards for each acquisition: separate the hard blockers (genuine re-architecture) from soft blockers (tool swaps), make the call on which CSP-locked services have acceptable CP2 substitutes today vs. which require new platform investment, and produce defensible T-shirt-sized effort estimates that senior leadership can plan against.
Define the dual backlog that shapes the IPE platform backlog (features the paved road must build to unblock acquisitions) and the acquisition backlog (technical debt teams must clear).
Drive prioritization across both with IPE leaders and acquisition GMs.
Establish the migration playbook and the repeatable patterns (Terraform modules, pipeline templates, observability conventions, SLO frameworks, runbook standards) so future onboarding takes a fraction of the effort of the very first onboarding.
Mentor and grow senior engineers on the team. Run design reviews.
Represent the program in leadership forums.
Requirements
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About the Team The Core Platform Integration Team is a new centralized team within Workday’s Core Services organization that sits at the intersection of Workday's IPE (Infrastructure Platform Engineering) organization and our acquired companies.Workday has acquired several companies in the last couple of years that run multiple services across cloud service providers AWS and GCP with their own infrastructure patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and operational practices.
You've owned the architecture, navigated organizational challenges, made the unpopular calls, and stayed accountable through the long tail of cutover, regressions, and operational handoff. Basic
Qualifications: 12+ years of software and infrastructure engineering experience, with deep production expertise across both AWS and GCP at organizational scale.
Proficiency in using the latest AI tools ( Claude Code, Cursor, Augment) as a force multiplier to accelerate code understanding, migration work, and documentation.
You read code fluently in Go and Python, can debug a Kubernetes operator, and know what a well-designed service looks like, because you've built them. Demonstrable
experience leading M&A or large-scale platform migrations: evaluating acquired or legacy systems, designing the consolidation, sequencing the work, and bringing it to completion.
Mastery of Kubernetes at scale (EKS, GKE), container networking (e.g., Calico), and service mesh (Istio or equivalent), including instrumenting them for telemetry.
Qualifications: A career arc that began in software development (high-throughput APIs, distributed systems, backend services) and evolved into platform and cloud engineering.
Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience.
Deep observability expertise: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, GCP Operations Suite, and the design of long-horizon telemetry/log warehouses (e.g., BigQuery).
experience with enterprise CI/CD at scale (GitOps via ArgoCD or Flux; pipelines in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Harness) and a clear philosophy on safe, zero-downtime delivery. Hands-on
experience with cloud-scale relational databases (Aurora, Cloud SQL, Spanner) including multi-region availability and migration patterns.
A track record on security and compliance fundamentals: IAM least-privilege, secrets management, encryption at rest/in transit, vulnerability scanning, and the basics of regulated/sovereign deployments.
Strong coding skills in Go and/or Python for automation, migration tooling, and operators, not just glue scripts.
Experience with regional/sovereign cloud architectures and data residency regimes.
Experience building or operating internal developer platforms at enterprise scale.Familiarity with secrets management, IAM least-privilege design, and basic security hygiene (vulnerability scanning, image signing, mTLS).
Benefits
In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul.
Workday Pay Transparency Statement The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below.
Workday pay ranges vary based on work location.
As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus, as well as annual refresh stock grants.
Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, skills, job duties, and business need, among other things.
Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton Primary Location Base Pay Range: $222,900 USD - $334,300 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $187,100 USD - $334,300 USD Our Approach to Flexible Work With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote.
Additional details
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Our charter is to bring these companies onto CP2, Workday's cloud-agnostic "paved road" platform, so that 100% of services can run on any CSP.
This is a small, high-leverage team working directly with acquisition engineering leads, IPE platform owners, and Workday SREs.
We operate in the open, driving architecture review boards, building migration scorecards, sizing onboarding effort, and producing the roadmap that shapes both what the IPE platform must build and what acquired teams must refactor.
The work is technical, cross-organizational, and high-impact.