About this role
Employee Applicant Privacy Notice
Who we are:
Shape a brighter financial future with us.
Together with our members, we’re changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance.
We’re a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we’re at the forefront. We’re proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people’s lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.
The role:
As the Senior Engineering Manager of Workday Platform at SoFi, you will lead multiple dedicated teams of integration engineers responsible for designing, building, and supporting the core data conduits connecting our Workday ecosystem across broader financial, HR, payroll, and cloud platforms. You will partner closely with People Operations, Finance, Enterprise Engineering, Security, and external vendors to establish cross-domain technical roadmaps, uphold architectural standards, and deliver reliable data integrations at scale.
We are looking for an experienced technical leader of leaders who pairs deep Workday technical knowledge with a people-first mindset. In this role, you will foster an inclusive environment where managers and engineers thrive, remove systemic operational roadblocks, champion data integri ty, and guide your department through multifaceted technical problem solving with a found er’s mindset.
What you’ll do:
• Lead and mentor managers and high-performing engineering squads responsible for Workday HCM, Financial Management, Payroll, and the broader Workday technical ecosystem, acting as a leader-of-leade rs to dr ive cross-domain execution.
• Define and execute the multi-year Workday technical roadmap, enterprise architecture standards, engineering practices, and platform modernization strategy aligned with business priorities.
• Translate department priorities into clear integration specifications and project roadmaps, ensuring timely delivery while managing complex dependencies across multiple business units.
• Guide the design, development, and maintenance of secure, resilient, and reusable integrations using Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, APIs, and enterprise integration platforms such as MuleSoft.
• Establish department-wide standards for technical design, peer reviews, automated testing, documentation, deployment, monitoring, incident management, and production support to improve reliability.
• Own production support and incident management escalations for the integration landscape; guide root-cause investigations, conduct blameless post-mortems, and drive preventative enhancements across teams.
• Manage strategic third-party vendor relationships and service integrations (e.g., benefits administrators, financial plat