Workday Architect

About the role

Strategic architect role with broad influence across Workday Finance, SCM, and HCM. Opportunity to lead enterprise-wide solution design and governance. Visibility with business and technology leadership. Ability to shape future-state Workday architecture and standards across the organization. Strong preference for candidates with deep Workday architecture experience across FIN, SCM, or HCM domains.

Responsibilities

• 30% – Business & Solution Architecture: Lead discovery workshops. Gather requirements and map future-state business processes. Translate business needs into Workday technical solutions.
• 25% – Solution Design & Governance: Develop and govern solution designs, business process designs, security models, reporting strategies, testing strategies, and data/worktag strategies. Establish configuration standards and architectural guardrails.
• 20% – Workday Configuration Strategy: Guide tenant configuration including business processes, security roles, organizational structures, compensation frameworks, eligibility rules, and validations.
• 15% – Testing & Release Readiness: Lead SIT/UAT planning and execution. Coordinate defect triage and ensure traceability from requirements through testing.
• 10% – Reporting, Integrations & Data Strategy: Oversee reporting governance. Guide inbound/outbound data strategies, conversions, integrations, and data validation activities.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree OR 10+ years without a degree.
• Proven Workday leadership experience within Finance, Supply Chain, or Human Capital Management.
• Experience translating business requirements into scalable Workday solutions.
• Deep knowledge of Workday configuration, business processes, security, reporting, and governance.
• Experience creating solution designs, estimates, and delivery plans across multiple workstreams.
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities involving integrations, data issues, security access, and performance.
• Experience leading end-to-end Workday lifecycle efforts including discovery, design, configuration, testing, and deployment.
• Ability to influence stakeholders and lead design decision-making.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and business stakeholders.

Skills

• Executive-level communication
• Stakeholder management
• Facilitation of requirements workshops
• Leadership and decision-making
• Ability to manage competing priorities and trade-offs

Pluses

• Workday Pro Certification(s)
• Experience with large-scale data conversions and cutovers
• Workday Prism Analytics
• Workday Extend
• Payroll interfaces
• Benefits and Finance integrations
• Identity and Access Management / SSO experience
• Experience with EIB, Core Connectors, and Studio integrations
• Advanced reporting and calculated field expertise
• Functional architecture and process design experience utilizing a fit-to-standard approach

Bachelor's degree preferred. Candidates without a degree must have 10+ years of relevant experience.