Workday Adaptive Planning Architect - US - Remote

The Workday Adaptive Planning Architect at Worldwide Clinical Trials serves as the enterprise owner and strategic architect for the Adaptive Planning platform, focusing on enabling scalable financial, operational, and workforce planning aligned with business strategy.

About the role

This role owns the Adaptive product vision and roadmap, ensuring the platform supports corporate and operations FP&A and HR. The Architect partners with Finance and HR leadership to translate planning requirements into secure, well-governed, and high-performing models, integrations, and reporting solutions.

Responsibilities

• Owns the Adaptive product vision and roadmap, ensuring the platform enables scalable financial, operational, and workforce planning aligned with business strategy.
• Pairs closely with Finance and HR leadership to translate planning requirements into secure, well-governed, and high-performing models, integrations, and reporting solutions.
• Ensures bi-annual release adoption, AI strategy for Adaptive, OfficeConnect governance, integrations, security, and overall architectural integrity.
• Requires deep hands-on Adaptive expertise, strong FP&A and workforce planning knowledge, and the ability to lead platform strategy within a complex, enterprise environment.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of FP&A, financial planning, operational planning, and workforce management processes.
• Ability to build trusted partnerships with Finance and HR leadership.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex planning concepts into business-ready language.
• Strategic mindset with strong architectural and systems-thinking capabilities.
• High attention to detail with a strong focus on governance, data quality, and auditability.
• Comfortable operating as a platform owner in a global, matrixed organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in FP&A systems, enterprise planning, or financial systems architecture.
• Workday Pro Adaptive Planning Certification.
• Deep hands-on experience with Workday Adaptive Planning as an architect, lead administrator, or consultant.
• Strong understanding of enterprise financial modeling, forecasting, scenario planning, and workforce planning.
• Experience owning planning platforms, including roadmap definition, governance, and stakeholder alignment.
• Proven experience designing and supporting integrations between planning, ERP, HCM, and payroll systems.
• Experience enforcing standards for OfficeConnect and executive-level reporting.
• Familiarity with Workday HCM strongly preferred.
• Experience evaluating or implementing AI-enabled planning or forecasting capabilities preferred.
• Strong project management, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently and serve as the design authority for enterprise planning architecture.
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or related fields.

Benefits

Join a global team of over 3,500+ experts, bright thinkers, dreamers, and doers, and together, change the way the world experiences CROs – in the best possible way. Our mission is to work with passion and purpose every day to improve lives.

Schedule

Flexible work arrangements may be available based on business needs.

Pay

Competitive compensation package, including base salary and performance-based incentives.