Sr Director, Software Development Engineer - Workday Admin Central

Your work days are brighter here. We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too. About the Team Admin Central exists to fix one of Workday's biggest opportunities: turning a fragmented patchwork of tools and disconnected AI into a single, unified experience that makes every admin's day dramatically easier. We're a brand-new, fast-moving team building the future of how administration works - from a solo SMB admin to a global enterprise team - and we're just getting started. If you want to build something from scratch, move fast, and change how thousands of admins experience Workday every day, this is the team to do it with. About the Role Admin Central is a new organization established as the single authority for the Workday Admin Strategy and the owner of the Admin Platform - transforming Workday from a fragmented "patchwork" of siloed hubs and disconnected AI agents into a unified, standardized admin experience. We are seeking a Senior Director to build and lead this organization from the ground up, owning full accountability for its mission, roadmap, people, and delivery across all three of its pillars: Single Admin Experience: the single, unified admin entry point that consolidates tasks, alerts, and insights into one prioritized, standardized experience. Product Adoption: shifting admins from reactive maintenance to proactive feature adoption through automated release impact analysis, testing, change impact assessment, and guided setup. Self-Optimizing Workday: automating the reactive break-fix burden — business process unblocking, security access review, and integration/reporting health — so the tenant increasingly self-heals with minimal manual intervention. You will own the organization's full roadmap governance and TCO reduction goals, lead the consolidation of existing Admin Hubs and the Business Process Optimization (BPO) Agent Suite into Admin Core, and set the strategic standards that govern how AI agents built both inside and outside the organization are discovered and consumed by admins. You will build and scale a multi-disciplinary organization spanning engineering, product management, UX design, and data science — including standing up net-new teams and integrating resources transitioning in from Deployment Technology, Platform, RAD, and P&T Operations — while partnering closely with decentralized, matrixed capabilities (Integration Health, Tenant Management, Design + Research, and Analytics & Value Quantification) that remain owned by their respective teams. You will report into and represent Admin Core's strategy directly to senior platform and technology executives, defending roadmap priorities with quantified impact and ensuring the organiz