Job DescriptionU.S. BankAt U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to build a strong, scalable, and well-governed enterprise platform ecosystem. We are seeking a
Workday Platform Governance Lead to serve as the central authority for platform governance, ensuring our Workday environment operates as a secure, reliable, and audit-ready enterprise platform supporting HR, Finance, and Procurement functions.
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, and release lifecycle oversight.
- Define, establish, and enforce enterprise governance standards across integrations, security, reporting, and environments.
- Oversee end-to-end integration lifecycle (EIB, Core Connectors, Studio, APIs), including design standards, onboarding, monitoring, and operational reliability.
- Drive platform governance across Workday capabilities such as Extend, Orchestrate, Prism, Security, and reporting frameworks.
- Establish and monitor platform KPIs including uptime, MTTR, integration success rates, and release cycle performance.
- Define and manage release governance processes, including Workday R1/R2 impact assessments, regression validation, and production readiness.
- Lead platform monitoring strategy using dashboards and analytics tools to ensure system health, uptime, and data accuracy.
- Own data governance practices, including tenant refresh controls, data masking/scrambling, and secure handling of sensitive data.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (HR, Finance, Procurement, Technology) to ensure alignment of platform capabilities with business needs.
- Facilitate governance forums, intake processes, and cross-functional prioritization.
- Develop executive-level reporting and communicate platform health, risks, and roadmap progress to senior stakeholders.
- Ensure audit readiness through comprehensive documentation of changes, approvals, testing evidence, and compliance artifacts.
- Drive test automation strategy (e.g., Opkey) to improve release confidence and quality.
- Enable adoption of automation and AI capabilities within governance frameworks.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders and act as a key liaison across product, engineering, and business teams.
- Independently manage large-scale programs and project teams (20+ members), ensuring alignment to scope, quality, cost, and timelines.
- May manage and coach a small team, including performance management and staffing decisions.
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)
- Experience with document management and governance practices
- Extensive experience in: IT project and program management, Project control, reporting, and governance frameworks, Project planning and organization, MS Project or similar planning tools
- Demonstrated ability to manage large, complex, cross-functional initiatives across enterprise environments
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders
- Experience managing competing priorities and driving alignment across multiple teams
Additional Preferred Skills (Workday & Platform Governance)- Experience with Workday advanced capabilities: Extend, Orchestrate, Prism Analytics
- Hands-on experience with test automation tools (e.g., Opkey or similar)
- Experience operating in regulated and audit-driven environments (e.g., banking, healthcare)
- Familiarity with ITIL, DevOps, and platform engineering practices
- Understanding of enterprise platform governance, release management, and lifecycle controls
- Experience with integration governance and monitoring frameworks
Nice-to-Have Skills- Experience implementing or governing CI/CD pipelines in SaaS platforms
- Exposure to data governance frameworks and reporting ecosystems
- Experience working across multiple Workday functional domains (HR, Finance, Procurement)
- Knowledge of audit, risk, and compliance processes in large enterprises
- Prior experience in defining platform KPIs and operational metrics
- Familiarity with AI-driven automation or orchestration in enterprise platforms
What Sets This Role ApartThis role is uniquely positioned as the
central governance orchestrator across the Workday ecosystem-focused 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.***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
Review our full benefits available by employment status here.
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
Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants. 
