Workday Platform Governance (Agile&SaaS)

Job Description

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to build a strong, scalable, and well-governed enterprise platform ecosystem. We are seeking a professional with experience in Workday platform governance, Agile delivery, and SaaS operations, with expertise in release management, compliance, stakeholder engagement, platform performance, and enterprise governance frameworks.

This role blends program leadership, platform governance, and stakeholder alignment, with a focus on enabling consistency, control, and enterprise-wide coordination across multiple teams and domains.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and govern the overall Workday platform, including tenant strategy, environment management, platform roadmap planning, and release lifecycle oversight.
• Define, establish, and enforce enterprise governance standards across security, reporting, platform operations, and environment management.
• Drive platform governance across Workday capabilities such as Extend, Orchestrate, Prism, Security, and reporting frameworks.
• Establish and monitor platform KPIs, including uptime, platform reliability, service performance, adoption metrics, and release cycle effectiveness.
• Define and manage release governance processes, including Workday R1/R2 impact assessments, regression validation, production readiness reviews, and change governance.
• Lead platform monitoring strategy using dashboards and analytics tools to ensure system health, operational stability, and data accuracy.
• Own data governance practices, including tenant refresh controls, data masking, data quality standards, and secure handling of sensitive information.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (HR, Finance, Procurement, Technology) to align platform capabilities with business objectives and strategic priorities.
• Facilitate governance forums, intake processes, prioritization reviews, and decision-making frameworks across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Champion Agile delivery practices and governance standards, ensuring effective planning, prioritization, risk management, and continuous improvement across platform initiatives.
• Develop executive-level reporting and communicate platform health, risks, delivery progress, and roadmap priorities to senior leadership.
• Ensure audit readiness through comprehensive documentation of changes, approvals, testing evidence, operational controls, and compliance artifacts.
• Drive adoption of SaaS platform best practices, automation opportunities, and AI-enabled capabilities within governance frameworks.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and act as a key liaison across product, engineering, business, and platform support teams.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Three to five years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills / Experience:

• Strong understanding of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and enterprise governance processes.
• Experience with document management, policy management, and governance practices.
• Extensive experience in IT project and program management, governance frameworks, project planning, reporting, and operational oversight.
• Demonstrated ability to manage large, complex, cross-functional initiatives across enterprise environments.
• Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, and influencing skills.
• Experience managing competing priorities and driving alignment across multiple teams.

Agile Preferred Skills:

• Experience working in Agile environments using Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Strong understanding of Agile planning, backlog management, prioritization, sprint execution, dependency management, and continuous improvement practices.
• Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies and driving delivery alignment across business and technology teams.
• Ability to partner with Product Owners, platform teams, and business stakeholders to support strategic planning and execution.
• Experience leading governance and operating model improvements within Agile organizations.

SaaS Preferred Skills:

• Experience supporting, governing, or managing enterprise SaaS platforms.
• Understanding of SaaS platform lifecycle management, environment strategy, release management, security, compliance, and operational controls.
• Experience implementing governance processes that ensure platform reliability, scalability, audit readiness, and risk management.
• Familiarity with cloud-based platform operations, automation, and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience monitoring platform performance, service health, operational metrics, and adoption trends.

What Sets This Role Apart:

This role is uniquely positioned as the central governance orchestrator across the Workday ecosystemfocused on driving alignment, structure, and control across multiple teams rather than hands-on configuration or development.

***This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.***

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $105,400.00 - $124,000.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.