Senior Manager, Product Lead - Workday

Job Summary The Senior Manager - Product Lead is responsible for defining and executing the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a portfolio of digital products and platforms. This role partners closely with business, technology, design, data, and operations leaders to deliver high‑impact, customer‑centric solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Key Responsibilities Product Strategy & Roadmap Product Delivery & Execution Operational Excellence Stakeholder Engagement Vendor & Risk Management Subject Matter Expertise in HR Technology Domain Solution & Application Architecture: Own the technical solution design for assigned Workday functional and technical areas. Lead architecture and design workshops and translate business requirements into scalable, automated Workday solutions. Define and maintain architecture decision records, promoting reusability, standardization, and long‑term scalability. Provide oversight to the Workday Identity & Access Management (IAM) framework, ensuring secure and compliant role and domain structures. Drive release impact analysis, identifying cross‑module, integration, and security implications for each Workday update. Validate solutions through testing strategy contributions, including scenario design, regression coverage, and integration‑specific validation. Partner with HRIS, technical teams, and functional stakeholders to identify and deliver Workday‑based integration opportunities and automation improvements. Application Ownership: Support the full application lifecycle and roadmap for Workday, reducing technical debt and maximizing modernization opportunities. Own user‑based security and compliance, overseeing integration system user accounts, roles, access controls, and audit evidence. Ensure Workday integrations, configuration, and security adhere to compliance requirements and remain audit‑ready. Maintain system documentation and knowledge repositories, including integration inventory, security policies, configuration rationale and architecture decisions. Make risk‑based decisions on high‑impact changes, ensuring appropriate quality controls, testing rigor, approval workflows, and rollback procedures. Business System Management: Participate in Workday demand intake, contributing to backlog prioritization and emerging solution evaluation. Support and influence Workday governance, including design authorities, decision forums, architecture reviews, and change controls. Coordinate delivery execution by partnering with the IT PMO to plan sprints, track milestones, align cross‑functional stakeholders and manage dependencies in an agile delivery environment. Lead release management activities for biannual Workday updates, ensuring proactive evaluation and adoption of new features, including emerging AI/ML capabilities. Serve as a Tier‑3 escalation point for complex issues, driving root cause analysis, incident remediation, and problem management. Collaborate with IT operations teams to define and monitor SLAs, performance indicators, and service quality metrics. Assist in managing vendor and partner performance, ensuring alignment to SOWs, deliverables, quality gates, and architectural expectations. Qualifications Minimum 6 years of IT solution experience in functional and integrations development role in Workday Technology. Deep knowledge of Workday HCM: business processes, configuration patterns, security domains/BP policies, data model. Hands‑on proficiency with EIB, Core Connectors (CCB/CCW), Data Transport (DT), Workday Studio, BIRT, and Workday Extend. Advanced reporting and calculated fields; XSLT 3.0 expertise. Experience interpreting integration mapping documents, schemas, and REST/SOAP API payloads with effective dating and reconciliation logic. Oversight of Workday IAM (role design, SoD, access reviews, audit evidence). Knowledge of integration strategies across Cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP) and middleware; familiarity with event‑driven and API‑based designs. Proven success delivering new capabilities using Product Life Cycle Management and SDLC practices, managing complex portfolios with PPM methodologies. Strong grasp of Agile/Scrum, change control, release management, and testing cycles. Experience with ITIL service processes and SLA/OLA management. Experience working with globally distributed business and IT teams (Japan, EU, India). Superior presentation skills and executive presence. Business analysis excellence in process design, documentation, and problem‑solving activities. Strong analytical and conceptual problem‑solving abilities. Clear written and verbal communication. Travel 10–20% based on business needs. Preferred Skills: Life Sciences experience in HR function. Workday certifications (HCM, Integrations, Security, Reporting, Extend, Workday Pro). Experience operationalizing AI/ML in HR/Workday‑adjacent workflows. Experience in enterprise‑scale environments with high‑volume integrations and robust compliance/audit requirements. Familiarity with identity platforms (Okta/Azure AD), SSO, SCIM provisioning. Exposure to data/analytics platforms (Snowflake, Redshift) and BI/report governance. Advanced degree in engineering, sciences, or Artificial Intelligence (optimal). Educational Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or adjacent fields. Compensation Minimum $150,034.00 - Maximum $224,250.00, plus incentive opportunity. The range shown represents a typical pay range for individuals hired in the role to perform in the United States. Benefits The company offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, basic life, accidental death & dismemberment, short‑term and long‑term disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, student loan assistance, a generous 401(k) match, flexible time off, paid holidays, and paid leave programs. Equal Opportunity Employer Otsuka is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, national origin, veteran status, marital status or any other legally protected characteristic. #J-18808-Ljbffr