IT Product Owner - Workday

Position Title:

IT Product Owner - Workday

Salary Range:

IT Product Owner - Workday, Grade 15, exempt, $106,622.53 - $149,271.53 per fiscal year, commensurate with experience.

Job Description Summary:

The IT Product Owner - Workday is accountable for overseeing the vision, strategy, and execution of the Workday platform to align with organizational goals. By acting as a bridge between business functions (Talent and Culture, Finance, Information Technology) and technical teams, this role ensures that the product backlog aligns with employee and stakeholder needs, delivers optimized solutions, and supports transformational projects.

Job Description:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Contribute to and maintain a roadmap to facilitate Workday application software development and ensure the development work is prioritized in line with business objectives.
• Lead strategic partnering projects and initiatives, ensuring alignment with partners, establishing mutually beneficial relationships, and contribute to partnership agreement negotiations.
• Lead the discussion and recommendation of more complex or innovative technical developments to improve the quality of the Workday application software and supporting infrastructure to better meet users’ needs.
• Maintain the backlog of work for Workday and reprioritize the work and the deployment of project resources to reduce costs and increase the value of the work delivered to the business.
• Identify new external developments and/or emerging issues within an area of technology or business function and evaluate their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.
• Lead Scrum ceremonies, remove obstacles, and facilitate problem-solving, collaboration, and conflict resolution to enable the most effective work delivery by the Workday development team.
• Manage a portfolio of projects while reporting to senior colleagues.
• Build collaborative relationships, focusing on building internal and external networks that facilitate collaboration and partnerships across the organization.
• Elicit complex business requirements using a variety of methods, such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis, to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.
• Manage the development and/or delivery of a significant element of an organizational change management initiative for a substantial department/area.
• Document complex "as is" and "to be" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability to record accurately the change required.
• Identify shortcomings and suggest improvements to existing processes, systems, and procedures.
• Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an in-depth understanding of technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

Additional Job Description:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level with 10+ years’ experience in project management, business analysis, and or product ownership
  OR
  A combination of IT related post-secondary and/or professional education and demonstrated relevant work experience in a combination of quality assurance, business analysis, project management, and product ownership, equivalent to a total of fourteen years.
• Ten years’ hands-on experience with project management tools such as: Azure DevOps, and Smartsheets.
• Demonstrated leadership in agile environments with