A technique for workload processing includes receiving a request to process a workload by a scheduler. A determination is made whether multiple stages of processing are needed to process data of the workload. If so, a determination is made of a process needed for each stage and historical processing data is accessed to determine historical execution statistics associated with previous processing requests for a corresponding type of the workload. At each stage, a determination is made whether the data of the workload is available for processing and, if so, whether the respective process of the workload is available. If available, a determination is made as to resource availability on a computing platform for processing the workload and whether the resources available are sufficient to process the workload based on the historical execution statistics. If sufficient resources are available, processing of the workload is initiated for the respective stage.