Workday Sr Program Manager
Job Overview
PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Workday Sr Program Manager at our Tysons, Virginia location. The Senior Program Manager, Workday will lead planning, governance, and execution of PenFed’s Workday implementation across Human Resources, Finance, and Procurement. This role will coordinate business, technology, and implementation partner activities to manage scope, milestones, risks, dependencies, resources, and change readiness. The position requires strong program leadership, executive communication, vendor management, and stakeholder alignment skills to support a disciplined Workday deployment and successful adoption.
Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.
- Lead the Workday implementation across Human Resources, Finance, and Procurement workstreams, ensuring coordinated planning, execution, and delivery.
- Manage the integrated Workday program plan, including scope, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, resources, budget, risks, issues, and decision points.
- Partner with business leaders, technology teams, and functional stakeholders to align priorities, drive decisions, and maintain accountability for Workday program outcomes.
- Oversee Workday implementation partner activities, performance, deliverables, and issue resolution to ensure alignment with PenFed expectations, standards, and approved scope.
- Prepare executive-level reporting, dashboards, presentations, and communications that summarize progress, risks, decisions, and escalations.
- Facilitate governance forums, steering committee preparation, working sessions, and escalation pathways to support timely decisions.
- Lead and coordinate organizational change management with the Workday implementation partner, including stakeholder engagement, communications, training readiness, adoption support, business readiness, and change impact assessment.
Coordinate delivery activities across Workday process design, configuration, integrations, testing, data conversion, deployment planning, and transition to support.
Identify and manage resource constraints, delivery risks, control impacts, and cross-functional dependencies; recommend mitigation plans and escalate issues as needed.
Promote standardization, compliance, documentation discipline, and sustainable operating practices throughout the Workday implementation lifecycle.
Qualifications
Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field required, Master’s degree preferred.
- Minimum of ten (10) years of progressive program or project management experience leading complex, cross-functional enterprise initiatives.
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience managing large-scale SaaS, cloud, ERP, HCM, Finance, Procurement, or similar enterprise platform implementations; Workday implementation experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience managing implementation partners, vendors, contracts, statements of work, deliverables, timelines, and issue resolution.
- Experience leading governance routines, executive reporting, steering committee preparation, risk and issue management, and cross-functional decision facilitation.
- Experience coordinating organizational change management, stakeholder engagement, communications, training readiness, adoption support, and business readiness activities.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex program information into clear executive-level updates and actionable guidance.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams, influence stakeholders without direct authority, remove delivery barriers, and drive accountability across business and technology groups.
Experience in financial institutions or similarly regulated industries preferred.
Experience using AI tools preferred.
Supervisory Responsibility
This position will not supervise employees.
Licenses and Certifications
Preferred: PMP, CISSP, CISM, ITIL, or similar IT management certifications highly recommended.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.
*Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.*
Travel
Ability to travel to various worksites and be on call maybe required.
Pay Transparency
The anticipated starting salary range for this role is $84,700.00 - $170,529.00
This position is eligible for an organizational performance based annual bonus, subject to board discretion and approval.
This position is eligible for an individual performance based annual bonus.
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Benefits
At PenFed, we offer a robust benefits package designed to support you both personally and professionally. You’ll have access to comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans; paid time off; and family-friendly benefits like paid parental leave, care support, and fitness center access. Financial wellness is encouraged through features like a 401(k) match, employee loan discounts, and fully paid life and disability coverage. We also support growth via education assistance, community involvement, and volunteer opportunities.
Our Purpose
Helping members achieve their dreams since 1935.
Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) is one of America's largest federal credit unions, serving 2.8 million members worldwide with $29 billion in assets. PenFed offers market-leading certificates, checking and savings, credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, auto loans, and a wide range of other financial services, always with members' interests in mind. PenFed is federally insured by the NCUA and is an Equal Housing Lender.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices PenFed Realty, LLC is a full-service real estate company ready to assist our clients with buying, selling and renting a home. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of PenFed Credit Union and is the largest independently-owned brokerage in the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices network, placing us in the top 1% of all real estate brokerages in the country.
With almost 60 offices and nearly 2,000 world-class sales professionals, we offer complete service coverage in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Kansas and Texas. In addition, we also offer specialized client services which include management of vacation properties and long-term rentals, corporate relocation services and national referral network.
Equal Employment Opportunity
PenFed management will maintain and observe personnel policies which will not discriminate or permit harassment or retaliation against a person because of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status or obligation, the presence of a physical and/or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, and all statuses protected by applicable state or local law in all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, position classifications, work assignments, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and in all other terms and conditions of employment. PenFed will also prohibit retaliation against individuals for raising a complaint of discrimination or harassment or participating in an investigation of same.
PenFed will also reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can apply for a job or perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship to PenFed. Contact human resources (HR) with any questions or requests for accommodation at Careers@PenFed.org.
