Why join the University of Sydney?

Join one of Australia's leading universities at a pivotal point of change, where technology is evolving to better support student learning, empower teaching excellence, and enable research delivery at global scale. ICT is central to delivering the University’s academic mission. Working across faculties, disciplines, and research communities, you will shape the platforms, services, and partnerships that enable student success, strengthen teaching, and accelerate research impact. This work spans both the critical services that keep the University running every day and the ongoing improvement of systems and experiences. With strong investment and clear direction, you’ll operate in a large and complex setting where your contribution has visible, meaningful impact across the University. You’ll collaborate across academic and professional communities to help shape a more connected and capable University, supporting teaching excellence, research impact, and student success.

The opportunity

As the Senior Manager, HR Platforms, you will take ownership of the University’s HR technology ecosystem, with primary responsibility for the strategy, governance, technical delivery and ongoing optimisation of Workday. You’ll bring extensive hands‑on technical knowledge and experience across the Workday ecosystem, with a strong understanding of tenant management, configuration, platform governance, security, enterprise integrations and Workday’s release cycles. You’ll lead the development and execution of the platform roadmap, overseeing tenant environments, system enhancements, testing, upgrades and release deployments to ensure the platform remains secure, scalable and reliable. Your technical expertise will extend across Workday HCM, Recruitment, Security,



Learning, Advanced Compensation, Absence, Payroll, Integrations and Workday Extend, with a key focus on strengthening integration with the University’s broader enterprise technology workplace. Working collaboratively across Human Resources, ICT, Finance and external partners, you’ll combine deep technical expertise with strategic leadership, influencing senior stakeholders, managing vendors and driving continuous improvement to deliver sustainable organisational value.

About the team

You’ll lead a dedicated team of Workday Specialists and Administrators responsible for the ongoing management, support and enhancement of the University’s HR technology platforms. A key priority will be building a collaborative, accountable and high‑performing team culture, bringing together specialist capabilities and encouraging greater knowledge sharing, teamwork and continuous improvement. As an experienced people leader, you’ll provide strategic direction, coaching, mentoring and technical guidance, while establishing clear expectations, strengthening team capability and supporting individual professional development. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the team’s next phase, balancing day‑to‑day operational service delivery with longer‑term strategic priorities, while creating an environment where people feel supported,



empowered and motivated to deliver exceptional outcomes. This is an opportunity for a technically accomplished Workday leader who is equally passionate about developing people, building strong teams and driving meaningful organisational change.

What you’ll do

- Own the strategy, governance, roadmap and end‑to‑end lifecycle of the University’s Workday platform environment.
- Establish effective governance and operating practices across tenant management, security, releases, enhancements and service delivery.
- Oversee Workday capabilities across HCM, Recruitment, Security, Learning, Advanced Compensation, Absence, Payroll, Integrations and Workday Extend.
- Lead the integration of Workday with finance, payroll and other enterprise applications, working closely with architecture, integration and ICT teams.
- Partner with senior stakeholders to shape priorities, support discovery and planning, and translate business needs into strategic platform outcomes.
- Manage vendors, implementation partners and augmented resources, while acting as the escalation point for complex platform and service issues.
- Lead and develop a team of Workday specialists and administrators, strengthening capability, collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.

What we’re looking for

- Extensive experience owning or managing Workday within a large and complex enterprise environment.
- Broad expertise across the Workday ecosystem, including HCM and multiple functional areas such as Recruitment, Security, Learning, Absence, Payroll, Integrations and Workday Extend.
- Strong experience in platform strategy, governance, tenant management, release management, security, platform optimisation and continuous improvement.
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📌 Senior Manager, HR Platforms (Australia)
🏢 University Of Sydney
📍 Australia