At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and enhance the Workday platform for Finance and HR, driving innovation and excellence.
- Company: Join a leading housing provider committed to community investment and inclusion.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days holiday, flexible benefits, and a generous pension scheme.
- Other info: Dynamic workplace with a focus on equality, diversity, and personal growth.
- Why this job: Shape the future of enterprise systems while making a real impact in your community.
- Qualifications: Experience with enterprise platforms, strong governance, and cross-functional team leadership.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
As one of the South of England's leading housing providers, we own and manage over 86,000 homes and are committed to investing in the communities we serve across the South and London. Following significant investment in our Workday platform for Finance and HR, we are looking for an experienced Workday Platform Manager to join our forward-thinking Business Platforms department. Reporting to the Head of Business Platforms, this is a pivotal role that will shape the future of our enterprise systems, driving platform excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement to support our colleagues and customers alike.
The Workday Platform Manager leads the management, development and continuous improvement of the Workday platform, ensuring it is reliable, secure, well governed and aligned to organisational priorities. The role provides platform leadership across configuration, release planning, service performance, supplier engagement and operational support, working closely with People, Finance, Procurement, IT colleagues and other business teams that rely on Workday-enabled processes.
The role is responsible for establishing clear ownership, controls and ways of working for Workday as a strategic enterprise platform. It provides direction to technical and functional specialists, assures changes before they are introduced into the live environment, and helps teams make best use of the platform while managing risk, cost, resilience and colleague experience.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Experience managing an enterprise business platform, ideally Workday or a comparable human resources, finance or corporate services platform.
- Strong understanding of platform governance, release management, change control, environment management, testing, service transition and operational support.
- Experience of PaaS (Platform as a Service).
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and delivery in agile.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and delivering enterprise-grade platform improvements in a complex organisation.
- Good understanding of identity and access management, role-based security, audit controls, data protection and compliance requirements.
- Experience working with integrations, application programming interfaces, middleware, data flows, reporting dependencies and supportable interface design.
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating business needs into clear platform priorities and outcomes.
- Strong supplier and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to balance service performance, platform roadmap, cost and risk.
- Familiarity with IT service management practices, including incident, problem, change, knowledge and service request management.
We have some great benefits at SNG, including:
- 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)
- Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package
- 3 additional wellbeing days and 2 paid volunteering days
- Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption pay
- Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover
- Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service
At Sovereign Network Group, we are passionate about inclusion for all and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG. Take a look at our careers site to learn more about us and our values.
Location: Basingstoke; Wembley
Type: Full time
Workday Platform Manager in Basingstoke employer: Sovereign Housing Group
At Sovereign Network Group, we pride ourselves on being a leading housing provider in the South of England, dedicated to fostering a supportive and inclusive work environment. As a Workday Platform Manager, you will benefit from a generous holiday allowance, a robust pension scheme, and opportunities for personal and professional growth, all while contributing to meaningful community investments. Our commitment to diversity and employee wellbeing ensures that you can thrive both personally and professionally in our dynamic Basingstoke location.
