Position Name: Principal Product Owner | Workday HCM/Finance/Adaptive
Work Location: Adelphi, MD
Duration: Full Time
This is a hybrid role requiring 2-3 days a week in the office in Adelphi, MD .
The Workday Human Capital Product Owner works in the Department of Information Technology Solutions (ITS). They are responsible for strategic governance, planning, and execution activities surrounding the Workday HCM/Finance/Adaptive Systems. They align the technology and business team’s strategies, systems analysis, and requirement definitions for key business objectives.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Leverage knowledge of Workday’s HCM/Finance/Adaptive enterprise software to provide deep functional expertise to Higher Education clients.
Engage in discovery around an organization’s current environment and deliver relevant, impactful presentations and demonstrations illustrating how Workday’s Enterprise applications can address requirements, solve business concerns, and create value.
Drive Workday application roadmap at an enterprise level in collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to achieve the product vision and strategically aligned prioritization.
Build close relationships with the functional teams to understand requirements to innovate, grow, improve efficiencies, address compliance requirements, complete change request and enhancement projects.
Apply agile methodologies to manage and evaluate the Workday backlog, of change requests, and enhancements and drive prioritization of items and release cycles.
Plan and drive Workday’s semi-annual system releases and new module implementations, ensuring minimal disruption to daily operations.
Establish a culture of continuous improvement and implement feedback loops with all stakeholders.
Partner with department leads to develop business cases inclusive of project budgets, evaluating risk levels, legacy system impacts, stability, organizational policies and reliability.
Apply creative solutions to design workflows and procedures with strong attention to detail.
Review project plans to plan and coordinate project activity.
Establish strong working relationships with Executive Sponsors, department heads, managers, supervisors, vendors, and others, to solicit cooperation and resolve problems.
Exhibits leadership by confidence in self and others, inspires and motivates others to perform well, and effectively influences actions and opinions of others.
Continuously upgrade their skillsets and knowledge of Workday.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience
10+ years of relevant work experience
Experience in higher education practices, technologies, and challenges
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Expertise in knowledge of administrative systems around HR & Finance
An understanding of Cloud-based HCM/Finance SaaS solutions is desired
Experience with Workday Prism
Experience with Workday Extend
Experience in presenting administrative computing solutions in front of a technical and business audience
5+ years of product management experience
5+ years of product owner experience
5+ years of professional experience translating customer and market needs into product deliverables and release support through the entire product life cycle
Ability to work under pressure and work on multiple projects
Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
Strong presentation skills
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Strong verbal communication skills
Ability to keep up with new business and technical concepts
Able to work with minimal supervision
Must display a positive attitude
Must be able to lead and mentor others
Understanding of Agile Frameworks (Kanban/Scrum)
Understanding of software development life cycle
Thanks & Regards,
Sekhar Pillala
Team Lead - Talent Acquisition
KMM Technologies, Inc.
CMMI Level 2 | ISO 9001 | ISO 20000 | ISO 27000 Certified
WOSB, SBA 8(A), MDOT MBE & NMSDC MBE
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Tel: 240-800-1958 | Fax: (866) 856 3684
E-MAIL: sekhar.pillala@kmmtechnologies.com
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