Workday Team Leader

Just imagine your future with us…

At Aurecon we see the future through a very different lens. Do you?

Innovation, eminence and digital are at the heart of everything we do. Are you excited about the future?

Are you driven by the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and complex projects around the world and to learn from the best? We are.

Diversity is at the core of everything we do. We work together to create a culture based on respect, trust and inclusiveness. Our differences are what fuel our creativity.

What will you do?

The Workday Team Leader is responsible for the quality, capability, and performance of a team of software engineers delivering and supporting Workday HCM solutions.

This role ensures the supply of skilled, high-performing engineers, while partnering with product leaders who own the application strategy and day-to-day priorities of the engineers.

The Workday Team Leader also provides technical leadership to the team, guiding development practices, supporting engineering decisions and promoting technical excellence.

Here are the key things you will do to ‘bring ideas to life’:

Team Performance, Capability & Technical Leadership

- Lead and manage the engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, quality delivery, and continuous learning.
- Provide technical guidance across the team’s work, including solution design, problem-solving, and application of best practices.
- Promote consistent use of standards, design patterns, and tools that align with Aurecon’s broader technology architecture and principles.
- Oversee code quality, maintainability, and performance, and ensure robust peer review and development workflows.
- Support engineers in resolving complex technical challenges and guide the squad in adopting modern, scalable engineering practices.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture and other technical leaders to ensure alignment with strategic platforms and patterns.
- Ensure that production issues are addressed promptly, with thorough root cause analysis and long-term fixes.

People Leadership & Development

- Support individual growth through coaching, mentoring, and feedback, and ensure clear performance expectations are in place.
- Conduct regular performance reviews, career development conversations, and capability assessments.
- Build a well-balanced and flexible team, focused on skill depth and succession planning.
- Optimise the team’s capacity and skill mix, ensuring readiness to meet changing product needs.

Collaboration & Engagement

- Partner with product leaders to plan resourcing against demand, understand upcoming needs, and align on delivery expectations.
- Take ownership of team dynamic or performance issues, working to maintain high morale and engagement.
- Support effective communication between stakeholders and the team.

What can you bring to the team?

Firstly, strong sense of responsibility, flexibility, and adaptability to varying request. Demonstrated ability to analyse business requirements and deliver solutions in collaboration with business stakeholders to meet deadlines. You will also need the following:

- 5+ years of hands-on experience implementing, configuring, supporting, and optimizing Workday HCM solutions, with expertise in Workday architecture, business processes, security, reporting, and integrations.
- 3+ years of experience leading Workday HCM teams as a Team Lead, Technical Lead, or People Manager, including coaching, capability development, performance management, resource planning, and stakeholder management.
- Experience supporting Workday HCM modules including Core HCM, Absence, Benefits, Compensation, Learning, Recruiting, Talent & Performance, Reporting, and/or Integrations.
- Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams within a multinational or shared services environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline; Workday Certification is highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of software development standards, coding practices, IT Service Management (ITSM), and Agile Scrum methodologies.
- Ability to assess and manage the impact of Workday HCM configuration changes across business and Finance processes while mitigating cross-functional risks.
- Experience measuring service and team performance, driving continuous improvement, and resolving complex operational and technical challenges.

Our Aurecon Attributes describe the types of people we bring together for clients. We don’t expect you to have all eight of the attributes, but one that is unique to you.

Finally, we value that each of our team members brings something different to Aurecon. We look for people who have had a broad range of experiences throughout their career and can demonstrate how they have worked as part of a team to bring ideas to life. Does that sound like you?

About us

We’ve re-imagined engineering.

Aurecon is an engineering and infrastructure advisory company, but not as you know it!

For a start, our clients’ ideas drive what we do. Drawing on our deep pool of expertise, we co-create innovative solutions with our clients to some of the world’s most complex challenges. And through a range of unique creative processes and skills, we work to re-imagine, shape and design a better future.

We listen deeply and intently, which helps us see opportunities, possibilities and potential that others can’t.

Think engineering. Think again.

Want to know more?

You can learn more about what it’s like to work at Aurecon by visiting the careers section of our website.

If you are intrigued or excited by what you have read, then we want to hear from you. Apply now!