Workday Technical Architect

Technical Strategy & Roadmap

• Collaborate with business leadership and Workday BSMs to define and maintain the roadmap and strategy for Workday technical capabilities, including Integrations, Extend, Prism Analytics, Reporting, and potentially Sana.
• Oversee end-to-end delivery of Workday technical solutions and platform capabilities, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise IT direction.
• Align technical strategy with business priorities, platform capabilities, and the Workday release calendar.
• Identify opportunities to leverage new Workday technical features, extensibility options, and platform enhancements.
• Provide IT leadership with portfolio-level status reporting, technical risk assessments, and capacity forecasting for the Workday technical portfolio.

Integration Architecture & Oversight

• Design, oversee, and maintain the Workday integration architecture, including EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder), Core Connectors, and Workday Studio integrations.
• Guide internal and third-party Integrations and Prism developers on design patterns, coding standards, and technical best practices.
• Ensure solution integrity across all integration points, validating data flows, error handling, and performance characteristics.
• Facilitate conversations between technical and non-technical resources, translating business requirements into sound technical specifications.
• Act as the primary escalation point for technical issues across integrations, Prism, and reporting.
• Coordinate with middleware and integration platforms (e.g., MuleSoft, Dell Boomi) where applicable to ensure seamless connectivity.

Prism Analytics & Data Management

• Oversee the design and maintenance of Workday Prism Analytics data pipelines, including data sourcing, data preparation, and data publishing within the Workday tenant.
• Ensure the integrity of Prism data models, transformation logic, and published datasets used for dashboards and advanced reporting.
• Establish standards for data lineage documentation, transformation logic, and dataset dependency management.
• Absess downstream reporting impacts when modifying datasets and ensure data quality, reconciliation, and validation standards are met.
• Determine appropriate use cases for Prism Analytics versus Workday reporting or external BI tools.

Reporting & Analytics Oversight

• Oversee the Workday reporting framework, including custom report development, dashboard creation, and calculated field management.
• Establish and enforce reporting policies, controls, and secure access standards.
• Cordinate with functional teams to translate analytical requirements into structured data solutions and reporting artifacts.
• Ensure reporting architecture supports cross-functional needs across Financials, HCM, and Security domains.

Governance & Technical Standards

• Establish and maintain governance structures across integrations, data, extensibility, and reporting to support effective decision-making and platform integrity.
• Manage governance processes to ensure technical solutions adhere to Stream's IT policies, security requirements, and data standards.
• Oversee tenant migration processes for technical artifacts (integrations, Prism datasets, reports) across Sandbox, Preview, and Production environments.
• Cordinate with the Release Manager to ensure technical changes are properly tested, scheduled, and deployed.
• Assess the impact of Workday release cycles on integration models, Prism data structures, and reporting artifacts.

Solution Delivery & Team Coordination

• Lead cross-functional technical delivery teams through integration development, Prism analytics builds, and reporting initiatives.
• Manage or coordinate work of internal and third-party integration developers, Prism developers, and report analysts supporting the Workday platform.
• Specialize in technical configurations and serve as the subject matter expert for Workday's technical architecture.
• Provide mentorship, work direction, and performance input for direct or matrixed technical team members.
• Cordinate with vendor partners and managed service providers on technical deliverables and knowledge transfer.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the primary IT liaison and escalation point for Workday technical matters across all functional domains.
• Align with stakeholders across IT, Finance, HR, and business units to ensure technical capabilities support enterprise objectives.
• Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and portfolio review sessions with Business Solutions Managers and Application Product Owners.
• Manage resource allocation across internal technical team members, contractors, and vendor partners.