Principal Product Owner Workday HCM/Finance/Adaptive
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 teams strategies systems analysis and requirement definitions for key business objectives.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Leverage knowledge of Workdays HCM/Finance/Adaptive enterprise software to provide deep functional expertise to Higher Education clients.
- Engage in discovery around an organizations current environment and deliver relevant impactful presentations and demonstrations illustrating how Workdays Enterprise applications can address requirements solve business concerns and create value.
- Drive Workday application roadmap at an enterprise level in collaboration with crossfunctional 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 Workdays semiannual 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:
- Bachelors 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