Engineering Manager – Admin Pillar

November 19

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Workiva

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SaaS • Finance • Compliance

Workiva is a cloud-based, AI-powered platform that unifies financial reporting, risk and compliance management, and sustainability reporting. It enables teams to connect data across systems, collaborate in real time, automate reporting (including XBRL tagging), and maintain auditability and traceability for regulated disclosures and assurance processes. Workiva serves large enterprises and finance, legal, audit, and sustainability teams to accelerate reporting, improve accuracy, and reduce risk.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2008

☁️ SaaS

💸 Finance

📋 Compliance

📋 Description

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers focused on authentication, authorization, and administrative platform services • Provide hands-on coaching, performance feedback, and growth opportunities for engineers at varying experience levels • Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-ownership team culture grounded in trust, accountability, and continuous improvement • Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of foundational services that support identity management, secure access, and cross-platform administration • Guide architectural decisions to ensure platform scalability, reliability, and alignment with Workiva’s long-term technical vision • Ensure engineering best practices around security, testing, operational excellence, and documentation • Drive improvements in latency, service availability, developer experience, and integration usability across internal and external interfaces • Partner closely with Product, Security, and Platform Engineering leaders to define roadmaps, scope requirements, and deliver secure, compliant solutions • Work with internal engineering teams and external developers to understand integration needs and remove friction • Promote alignment with Workiva’s enterprise identity and access management strategies • Maintain high service availability and performance across mission-critical authentication and authorization systems • Champion observability, incident response readiness, and continuous operational improvements • Reduce complexity through simplification, automation, and thoughtful system design

🎯 Requirements

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in a related field • 4+ years of experience in a related engineering role • 2+ years of experience in a people management role • Demonstrated experience managing and developing high-performing engineering teams • Deep technical background in distributed systems, identity platforms, authentication/authorization protocols, or platform foundational services • Experience with identity technologies such as OAuth, OIDC, SAML, JWT, RBAC/ABAC, SCIM, or similar • Proven ability to lead teams delivering secure, reliable, high-scale backend services • Effective cross-functional communication skills and ability to influence technical direction across teams • A mindset centered on enabling developers, improving platform usability, and delivering secure-by-default solutions • Experience with enterprise identity or access management systems • Background in cloud-native architectures (GCP, AWS, or similar). • Familiarity with Kubernetes, microservices, and modern DevOps practices • Experience supporting external developer platforms or building foundational SDKs/APIs

🏖️ Benefits

• A discretionary bonus typically paid annually • Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire • 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package