Workday Platform Governance Lead

Workday Platform Governance Lead

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to build a strong, scalable, and well-governed enterprise platform ecosystem. We are seeking a Workday Platform Governance Lead to serve as the central authority for platform governance, ensuring our Workday environment operates as a secure, reliable, and audit-ready enterprise platform supporting HR, Finance, and Procurement functions.

This role blends program leadership, platform governance, and stakeholder alignment, with a focus on enabling consistency, control, and enterprise-wide coordination across multiple teams and domains.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead and govern the overall Workday platform, including tenant strategy, environment management, and release lifecycle oversight.
• Define, establish, and enforce enterprise governance standards across integrations, security, reporting, and environments.
• Oversee end-to-end integration lifecycle (EIB, Core Connectors, Studio, APIs), including design standards, onboarding, monitoring, and operational reliability.
• Drive platform governance across Workday capabilities such as Extend, Orchestrate, Prism, Security, and reporting frameworks.
• Establish and monitor platform KPIs including uptime, MTTR, integration success rates, and release cycle performance.
• Define and manage release governance processes, including Workday R1/R2 impact assessments, regression validation, and production readiness.
• Lead platform monitoring strategy using dashboards and analytics tools to ensure system health, uptime, and data accuracy.
• Own data governance practices, including tenant refresh controls, data masking/scrambling, and secure handling of sensitive data.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (HR, Finance, Procurement, Technology) to ensure alignment of platform capabilities with business needs.
• Facilitate governance forums, intake processes, and cross-functional prioritization.
• Develop executive-level reporting and communicate platform health, risks, and roadmap progress to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure audit readiness through comprehensive documentation of changes, approvals, testing evidence, and compliance artifacts.
• Drive test automation strategy (e.g., Opkey) to improve release confidence and quality.
• Enable adoption of automation and AI capabilities within governance frameworks.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and act as a key liaison across product, engineering, and business teams.
• Independently manage large-scale programs and project teams (20+ members), ensuring alignment to scope, quality, cost, and timelines.
• May manage and coach a small team, including performance management and staffing decisions.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Three to five years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills / Experience

• Strong understanding of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience with document management and governance practices
• Extensive experience in: IT project and program management, Project control, reporting, and governance frameworks, Project planning and organization, MS Project or similar planning tools
• Demonstrated ability to manage large, complex, cross-functional initiatives across enterprise environments
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders
• Experience managing competing priorities and driving alignment across multiple teams

Additional Preferred Skills (Workday & Platform Governance)

• Experience operating in regulated and audit-driven environments (e.g., banking, healthcare)
• Understanding of enterprise platform governance, release management, and lifecycle controls
• Experience with integration governance and monitoring frameworks

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience implementing or governing CI/CD pipelines in SaaS platforms
• Exposure to data governance frameworks and reporting ecosystems
• Experience working across multiple Workday functional domains (HR, Finance, Procurement)
• Knowledge of audit, risk, and compliance processes in large enterprises
• Prior experience in defining platform KPIs and operational metrics
• Familiarity with AI-driven automation or orchestration in enterprise platforms

What Sets This Role Apart

This role is uniquely positioned as the central governance orchestrator across the Workday ecosystemfocused on driving alignment, structure, and control across multiple teams rather than hands-on configuration or development.

***This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.***

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $105,400.00 - $124,000.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.