About the Role
Workday is seeking an exceptional Technical Specialist to join our Office of the CIO (oCIO), Specialised Solution Consulting team. In this role, you will play a key part in supporting and advocating for the technical aspects of the sales process.
This is an exciting opportunity to showcase and promote the latest generation of ERP cloud applications. By engaging in interactive discoveries, you will assess the needs of organizations and illustrate how Workday's Enterprise Applications can meet customer requirements and address their strategic business challenges, with a specific focus on building extensions to core functionality within Workday HCM. This will involve presentations to IT stakeholders at all levels, showcasing Workday's functionality, and developing rapid prototypes.
Responsibilities:
1. Articulating the value and expanding adoption of the Workday platform to different buyer stakeholders / C-Levels, in particular the CIO.
2. Center of Excellence for technical topics on Workday Extend
3. Describing the technical architecture of the Workday solutions.
4. Highlighting the advantages of a cloud based SaaS offering vs traditional on-premise installations.
5. Discussing the fit and value of Workday’s Extend offering for potential buyer use cases.
6. Creating an engaging experience for the prospect´s technically oriented audience.
7. Understanding and communicating the Security, Data Privacy, Performance and Support aspects of the Workday SaaS offering.
Our Offer:
8. Structured employee onboarding to ensure a quick and successful ramp up
9. Competitive remuneration, restricted stock units & an employee stock purchase program
10. Amazing colleagues in a collaborative, dynamic and fast-growing environment
11. A powerful product, named as a leader by Gartner for Cloud HCM Suites, Cloud Core Financial Management Suites and Cloud Financial Planning and Analysis
12. Working with great customers with a customer satisfaction of 97%
13. A fun place to work where you can develop yourself further
About You
Candidates interested in joining the Workday Solution Consulting team as a Presales Technologist must exhibit a strong combination of technical skills, industry experience and an unimpeachable “stage presence”.
Articulating and differentiating the Workday technical foundation and delivery model requires:
Basic Qualifications:
14. 3+ years of software / IT presales/consulting experience
15. Development experience building prototypes / proof of concepts.
16. Software as a Service work experience and/or knowledge of the delivery model and associated characteristics.
17. Ability to communicate a technical foundation, platform and delivery model in a compelling, creative and easily understandable fashion for diverse audiences (from technical specialists up to C-level)
18. Practical experience / knowledge of Workday HCM products
19. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
20. Fluency in English - plus German (if Germany based) or French (if Paris based)
Other Qualifications:
21. A strong technical knowledge including but not limited to:
Javascript, Python, Data modeling skills or other modern programming languages including working with REST/SOAP APIs for integrations.