2 days ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Define and drive technical strategy for Data Lifecycle Management capabilities within the Deployment Technology organization.
- Design and build scalable systems for data retention, archival, tiering, purge/deletion, backup and restore, and migration.
- Identify systemic risks and scalability bottlenecks across data retention pipelines and deployment processes, and develop engineering mitigations.
- Lead standardization and continuous improvement of data lifecycle tooling and deployment processes.
- Facilitate technical design reviews and architecture discussions with engineering and product stakeholders.
- Provide technical updates to engineering leadership on system health, deployment readiness, compliance milestones, and risk mitigation.
- Shape engineering best practices, produce technical documentation, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development engineering experience architecting, building, and scaling robust software systems.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, graph algorithms, and dynamic programming applied to large-scale data retention, archival, and deletion problems.
- Experience designing scalable distributed APIs and services for data lifecycle states across large multi-tenant systems, including REST and versioning practices.
- Hands-on experience with deployment technologies, release engineering, infrastructure as code, and orchestration or automation tooling.
- Experience with unit, integration, and performance testing for data pipelines and deployment systems.
- Knowledge of object-oriented design, design patterns, and SOLID principles.
- Familiarity with data governance, compliance, privacy requirements, retention policies, deletion rights, and audit trails.
- Proficiency in modern programming languages and software development practices.
- Experience with source control management and advanced branching and merging strategies for coordinated multi-service deployments.
- Ability to collaborate on software development teams, mentor junior engineers, and produce comprehensive technical documentation.
Benefits
- Base salary range of €86,400–€129,600 EUR for Ireland locations, with potential eligibility for a bonus plan or role-specific bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
- Flexible work model combining in-person and remote work, with at least 50% of each quarter spent in the office or in the field for applicable roles.
- Equal opportunity employment, reasonable accommodation support, and consideration under applicable Fair Chance laws.
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About Workday
Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.