Manager, People Technology Platform Engineering (Workday)

Responsibilities

• Engineering Leadership & Team Development
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of People Technology Platform Engineers and Integration Engineers (P3), setting clear expectations for ownership, engineering quality, and delivery outcomes
• Build a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and engineering excellence
• Ensure team members develop both domain depth and platform engineering capability
• Lead performance, provide regular feedback, and address performance issues directly and constructively
• Ensure appropriate coverage across platform domains while maintaining balanced workloads
• Platform Ownership & Strategy
• Oversee the design, stability, and continuous evolution of the Workday platform across domains
• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with platform architecture and engineering standards
• Guide design decisions and trade-offs, balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term platform health
• Partner with leadership to shape the roadmap and evolution of People Technology capabilities
• Delivery Leadership & Execution
• Be responsible for the effective delivery of platform changes across both run and change initiatives
• Establish and maintain structured delivery mechanisms (e.g., backlog management, sprint cadence, prioritization frameworks)
• Ensure work is clearly defined, prioritized, and aligned with business outcomes and team capacity
• Monitor delivery progress, remove blockers, and ensure timely, high-quality outcomes
• Balance responsiveness to partners with sustainable delivery practices
• Platform Operations & Reliability
• Ensure the reliability and performance of the Workday platform through effective operational practices
• Supervise issue management, ensuring root cause resolution and continuous improvement
• Identify systemic issues and drive structural improvements to platform stability and scalability
• Track and improve key performance indicators related to platform reliability and delivery effectiveness
• Stakeholder Partnership & Demand Shaping
• Partner with the business to translate business needs into structured, actionable work aligned with platform capabilities
• Provide clear communication on priorities, delivery timelines, risks, and trade-offs
• Manage expectations, ensuring alignment between demand and delivery capacity
• Influence toward scalable, platform-aligned solutions rather than one-off requests
• Multi-functional & Global Collaboration
• Collaborate with Product, Integration, Data, and Security teams to deliver cohesive, end-to-end solutions
• Coordinate cross-domain initiatives, ensuring alignment across platform components
• Lead effectively across a distributed team, establishing working rhythms that support collaboration and productivity
• Bring up appropriately when architectural, cross-team, or capacity constraints arise
• Governance, Compliance & Engineering Standards
• Ensure alignment to data privacy, security, and audit requirements across platform solutions
• Reinforce engineering standards, design patterns, and governanc

Additional Information

Why PlayStation? PlayStation isn't just the Best Place to Play - it's also the Best Place to Work. Today, we're recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more. PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. Role overview: The Manager, People Technology Platform Engineering (Workday) is responsible for leading a team of Platform and Integration Engineers and being responsible for the design, delivery, and continuous evolution of SIE's global Workday platform. Working with the Director, People Technology Services, this role combines people leadership with platform accountability, ensuring that the team delivers scalable, reliable, and well-architected solutions across the People Technology ecosystem. The role is responsible for shaping how the platform is built and operated, balancing delivery execution with long-term system sustainability. This role operates within an Agile product delivery model and plays a critical role in establishing a focused, engineering-led operating model. The manager partners closely with Product, Data, and Architecture team members to align platform capabilities with business priorities. Operating in a global, matrixed environment, this role leads a distributed team across regions, ensuring alignment, consistency, and high-quality outcomes across time zones.

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