Manager, HR Platform Engineering & AI Enablement

Adobe is seeking a hands-on technical leader for their HR Technology team to act as the principal solution architect for the Workday ecosystem and lead the HR integration portfolio. The role involves driving AI enablement across HR platforms while setting architectural standards and mentoring a distributed engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Perform hands-on Workday configuration, including prototyping, technical build, and complex problem resolution for Workday cross platform capabilities including Security, Business Process Framework, Tenant configurations, Workday Everywhere and Workday Extend
• Co-Lead semi-annual Workday release cycles, including feature evaluation, impact assessment, and adoption planning
• Own Workday tenant strategy, including environment management, refresh planning, SSO enablement, and sandbox governance
• Serve as Workday Security Administrator, Customer Central User Admin and Change control (CAB) lead, ensuring governance, audit readiness (SOX), and controlled production changes
• Partner with Workday Technical Account Management to optimize platform performance and resolve critical issues
• Own integration portfolio end-to-end — every inbound and outbound data flow across Workday, HR systems, and third-party platform including setting the strategy, enforcing the standards, and ensuring every connection is architected to scale
• Define and maintain integration strategy, standards, and governance across Workday Studio, EIB, REST/SOAP APIs, middleware platforms, and third-party connectors
• Lead delivery of integration initiatives through onshore and offshore engineers — driving design oversight, code review governance, and quality assurance without being the one writing the code
• Proactively identify integration risks, technical debt, and consolidation opportunities — and build the roadmap to address them
• Serve as the technical point of escalation for complex integration issues, ensuring swift resolution and long-term architectural integrity
• Define and drive the AI enablement strategy for HR Technology, ensuring platforms, data foundations and governance framework for AI readiness
• Set and enforce architectural guardrails covering security, privacy, and compliance for all AI initiatives
• Partner with HR Technology Product Managers to identify, prioritize, and architect high-impact AI use cases across the HR ecosystem
• Lead execution of AI initiatives through dedicated architects and engineering resources (not hands-on build)
• Stay ahead of enterprise AI trends — generative AI, agentic workflows, intelligent automation — and translate emerging capabilities into actionable opportunities

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in HR Technology, with deep expertise in hands on Workday configuration and solution architecture
• Demonstrated track record of leading an integration portfolio across multiple HR systems (ATS, LMS, payroll, benefits)
• Experience leading all aspects of enterprise integrations, with prior hands-on exposure to Workday Studio, APIs (REST/SOAP), or middleware platforms
• Familiarity with AI concepts and experience supporting or enabling AI initiatives within enterprise platforms
• Demonstrated experience building and leading distributed or offshore engineering teams, with the ability to provide hands-on technical mentorship while holding the team to high standards of quality and delivery
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business language — and vice versa — building credibility with both engineering teams and senior business partners to drive alignment and influence decisions
• Workday certification(s) in relevant functional or technical domains
• Experience with Workday Extend or platform customization