Manager, People Technology Platform Engineering (Workday)

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?

Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.

Role Overview:

The People Technology Platform Engineer, Workday is responsible for designing, building, and evolving SIE’s global Workday platform across core HR domains.

This role operates as an independent contributor within People Technology Services, owning the design, configuration architecture, and delivery of scalable Workday solutions. The role translates business needs into durable platform capabilities, ensuring solutions are reusable, maintainable, and aligned with long-term system design and governance standards.

Working within an Agile product delivery model, this role contributes to both the continuous evolution of the platform and the reliability of core services. The Platform Engineer partners closely with Product, Data, and Integration teams to deliver cohesive, end-to-end solutions across the People Technology ecosystem.

This role is suited for individuals who combine strong functional understanding with a systems approach, and who are motivated to build, improve, and scale enterprise platforms over time.

What you'll be doing:

Platform Engineering & Solution Design

• Design, configure, and implement scalable Workday platform solutions across core HR domains, including business process frameworks, organizational structures, eligibility rules, and calculated fields
• Define and apply configuration design patterns that promote reuse, scalability, and maintainability across the platform
• Translate business problems into well-structured system solutions, ensuring alignment with platform capabilities, governance standards, and long-term sustainability
• Evaluate solution options and make informed design decisions, balancing business needs, system constraints, and operational considerations
• Own end-to-end delivery of platform changes, including design, build, testing, and deployment readiness
• Ensure solutions are consistent with broader platform architecture and avoid fragmented or one-off implementations

Platform Ownership & Operations

• Act as a platform owner for assigned Workday domains (e.g., Core HCM, Absence, Compensation, Talent), accountable for system behavior, design integrity, and continuous improvement
• Maintain platform reliability through issue diagnosis and resolution, identifying root causes and implementing structural improvements to reduce recurrence
• Partner with team members to prioritize demand, balancing business urgency with platform sustainability and capacity
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams (e.g., integrations, data, security) to deliver cohesive, end-to-end platform solutions

Data & Reporting Solutions

• Design and deliver scalable reporting and data solutions, including Advanced, Matrix, and Composite reports, as part of the broader People data ecosystem
• Develop and maintain calculated fields and data structures to support both operational and analytical use cases
• Ensure accuracy, integrity, and consistency of data across Workday processes and outputs

Delivery & Agile Execution

• Translate business needs into clearly defined user stories and technical solutions
• Participate actively in Agile delivery, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
• Own and deliver assigned workstreams within sprint cycles, ensuring quality and alignment with expected outcomes
• Implement and support testing activities (unit, integration, UAT), ensuring solutions meet functional and technical expectations

Platform Design & Continuous Improvement

• Find opportunities to improve platform scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Contribute to evolving platform design standards, patterns, and governance practices
• Drive incremental automation and simplification of manual or fragmented processes
• Continuously improve individual capability and contribute to team learning and development

Governance, Compliance & Quality

• Ensure solutions meet data privacy, security, and audit requirements
• Follow established governance, release management, and change control practices
• Contribute to improving documentation, standards, and ways of working across the platform

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise platforms, including direct configuration and delivery of Workday solutions
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing scalable configuration solutions, including business processes, calculated fields, and core system setup
• Proven track record to independently troubleshoot and resolve system issues across configuration, data, and reporting
• Hands-on experience developing Workday reports (Advanced, Matrix, Composite) used in production environments
• Proven understanding of the Workday Core HCM data model and data flows across business processes
• Experience translating business needs into system solutions, including evaluating trade-offs between speed, complexity, and long-term maintainability
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments, with ownership of defined workstreams or sub-projects
• Ability to clearly articulate personal contributions to delivered solutions, including specific platform changes and outcomes

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Workday Security configuration
• Exposure to integrations (e.g., EIB, Core Connectors) and data interfaces
• Experience working within global enterprise environments across multiple regions
• Familiarity with additional Workday modules (e.g., Absence, Compensation, Talent)
• Experience contributing to platform standards, governance models, or design frameworks

Profile:

• Strong platform approach, with the ability to balance functional understanding and technical design
• Operates independently while aligning with team standards and architectural principles
• Diligent, with a focus on quality, scalability, and sustainability
• Practical and delivery-oriented, balancing speed with long-term maintainability
• Clear communicator who can bridge business and technical perspectives
• Comfortable working in an evolving operating model, with a willingness to take ownership and expand capability
• Demonstrates curiosity, continuous learning, and a proactive approach to improving both individual and team performance

At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

€57.900—€86.900 EUR

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Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.

- 8+ years of experience with enterprise platforms, including hands-on experience with Workday. - 3+ years of experience managing individual contributors in a delivery or engineering environment. - Demonstrated experience leading delivery and operation of enterprise platforms, balancing run and change activities. - Strong understanding of Workday and HR processes, with the ability to guide solution design and platform decisions. - Experience establishing structured delivery models, including backlog management and Agile practices. - Proven track record to operate in a global, matrixed environment, leading distributed teams across regions. - Experience working directly with partners to shape demand, prioritize work, and communicate delivery outcomes. - Strong problem-solving and organizational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and trade-offs.