Principal Product Owner | Workday HCM/Finance/Adaptive Job at AccelerEd, Hyattsville, MD

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  • AccelerEd
  • Hyattsville, MD

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

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

K nowledge, 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

This is a hybrid role requiring 2-3 days a week in the office in Adelphi, MD .

Job Tags

Work experience placement, 2 days per week, 3 days per week,

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