Workday Product Manager

About the role

MANTECH seeks a highly skilled Workday Product Owner & Solution Architect to serve as the single point of accountability for the Workday platform across the enterprise. This is a hybrid position based out of Herndon, VA. In this hybrid "player-coach" role, you will define the product vision, roadmap, priorities, and long-term strategy in partnership with HR, Finance, Payroll, Procurement, and Enterprise IT, while maintaining hands-on configuration, development, and architectural authority.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams while developing and maintaining a multi-year Workday roadmap aligned with enterprise objectives, compliance, and modernization goals.
• Manage the enhancement backlog, platform governance, and overall Workday ecosystem strategy.
• Define and oversee Workday architecture across HCM, Payroll, Financials, Procurement, Security, Reporting, and Integrations.
• Lead solution design reviews and govern integration architecture (APIs, EIBs, Core Connectors, Middleware) connecting Workday to Deltek Costpoint, ServiceNow, Okta, and data platforms.
• Personally configure and maintain business processes, security frameworks, calculated fields, dashboards, custom reports, and workflows.
• Manage tenant administration, environment migrations, and lead biannual release evaluation and testing.
• Provide player-coach leadership by driving strategic execution, mentoring team members on Workday best practices, and managing relationships with Workday and implementation partners.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years of enterprise applications experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience directly configuring, architecting, or managing the Workday platform.
• 3+ years of experience serving in a Product Owner, Lead Architect, Solution Architect, Technical Lead, or Platform Owner role for Workday.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience delivering at least 1 enterprise Workday implementation or major platform transformation program.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience configuring Workday Security, Business Process Framework, Custom Reporting, Calculated Fields, and EIBs.
• 3+ years of experience architecting or managing integrations between Workday and enterprise ERP/Identity systems (such as Deltek Costpoint, Microsoft Azure AD/Entra ID, or ServiceNow).

Preferred Qualifications

• Workday Pro Certification in relevant functional or technical domains (HCM, Financials, Security, Integrations, Reporting).
• Hands-on configuration experience across both Workday HCM and Workday Financials modules.
• Experience supporting Workday within a government contracting, defense, or highly regulated corporate environment.
• Experience utilizing Workday Extend, Prism Analytics, or AI-driven platform capabilities.
• Experience working within Agile product delivery frameworks.

Clearance Requirements

US Citizen

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
• Frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and external stakeholders. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.