Manager, People Systems Engineering

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $122k - $175k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Smartsheet

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

Smartsheet is a platform designed to manage projects, automate workflows, and build solutions at scale. It offers a wide range of features including automation, team collaboration, dashboards and reporting, and integrations, allowing businesses to streamline their operations. The platform caters to diverse use cases such as project management, IT portfolio management, marketing management, and more, serving various industries including government, finance, and healthcare. Smartsheet also emphasizes security and data protection, ensuring users' data privacy. Additionally, it offers professional services like consulting, training, and implementation support to maximize the platform's capabilities.

📋 Description

• Own the technical strategy and long-term architecture for the People technology ecosystem across Workday, Docebo, Greenhouse, integrations, employee data, automation, AI, and emerging capabilities • Lead, coach, and develop the People Systems Engineering team • Serve as technical leader for Workday and ensure it remains well architected, maintainable, secure, scalable, and appropriately leveraged • Partner with the Product Manager for People Systems to translate employee and business problems into product and technical strategies and roadmaps • Evaluate the People technology landscape and simplify, consolidate, redesign, automate, or eliminate processes • Define architectural boundaries across People platforms, APIs, integrations, custom applications, automation, and AI • Develop the technical strategy for People data, including sources, models, boundaries, contracts, quality, lineage, access, and lifecycle management • Drive an API-first and event-driven People Systems ecosystem • Define AI and agentification strategy for employee technology • Establish automation across recruiting, onboarding, employee changes, compensation, learning, talent, and offboarding • Introduce software engineering practices including source control, peer review, CI/CD, environment management, observability, reusable components, documentation, and disciplined releases • Establish automated testing strategy and improve observability across workflows, integrations, scheduled processes, and data flows • Define engineering standards for Workday configuration and extensibility • Own technical health, architectural debt, fragile integrations, customization, obsolete processes, and operational issues • Partner with Integration Engineering, AI & Automation, Data, Identity, Security, and other engineering teams • Evaluate emerging technologies and guide experimentation toward production • Balance roadmap delivery with modernization, reliability, security, sustainability, and technical debt reduction • Establish architecture reviews, technical standards, and engineering metrics • Communicate technical strategy, architecture decisions, investment needs, risks, and tradeoffs to stakeholders and senior leadership • Recruit, onboard, mentor, and develop engineers

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent practical experience • 8+ years of experience across enterprise application engineering, software engineering, HR technology, systems architecture, or related technical disciplines • 2+ years of experience managing or formally leading technical teams • Strong hands-on technical understanding of Workday, including architecture, data model, security model, business processes, integrations, reporting, and extensibility • Experience defining technical strategy or architecture • Strong systems thinking across applications, integrations, APIs, data, identity, automation, infrastructure, and employee experiences • Experience determining boundaries between SaaS configuration, platform extensibility, integrations, automation, and custom software development • Experience designing or evolving enterprise data architecture, including systems of record, data models, interfaces, data contracts, quality, governance, and downstream consumption • Experience introducing modern software engineering practices into enterprise SaaS or business systems environments • Experience with testing strategy and automation, CI/CD, observability, release engineering, or similar practices • Understanding of modern AI capabilities and practical applications of agents, LLMs, and intelligent automation • Experience partnering with Product Managers on product strategy, customer needs, technical strategy, roadmaps, and investment decisions • Ability to challenge legacy processes and architectures and develop pragmatic modernization strategies • Ability to operate across strategic architecture and detailed technical discussions • Strong understanding of security, privacy, access control, auditability, and data protection for sensitive employee data • Excellent analytical, verbal, and written communication skills • Experience with adjacent People platforms such as Docebo, Greenhouse, or similar technologies is a plus • Experience with Workday Studio, Workday Extend, Workday APIs, cloud platforms, event-driven architectures, AI/agent platforms, or modern automation frameworks is a strong plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Employer subsidized medical/vision and dental coverage for full-time employees • 401k Match (50% of your contribution up to the first 6% of your eligible pay) • Monthly stipend to support your work and productivity • Flexible Time Away Program, plus Sick Time Off • Smartsheet-sponsored life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability plans • 12 paid holidays per year • Up to 24 weeks of Parental Leave • Personal paid Volunteer Day • Opportunities for professional growth and development, including access to Udemy online courses • Company Funded Perks, including a counseling membership, local retail discounts, and your own personal Smartsheet account • Teleworking options from any registered location in the U.S. (role specific) • Market competitive incentive opportunity