Workday Reporting Lead​/Data Architect

Final date to receive applications:
Friday, September 18. 2026

The Workday Reporting Lead serves as the technical lead for Workday reporting, analytics, and data architecture for the University System of Maryland's MD Connect Workday Consortium. This position leads the design, development, governance, and continuous improvement of enterprise reporting and analytics solutions across the Consortium's shared Workday tenant. The incumbent provides technical leadership to the reporting team, establishes reporting and data standards, and partners with consortium institutions and stakeholders to deliver accurate, secure, and scalable reporting solutions that support operational, compliance, and strategic decision‑making.

• Leads the design, development, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of complex Workday reports, dashboards, and analytics solutions for operational, regulatory, and executive use.
• Develops advanced reporting solutions using Workday report types and tools, including Advanced, Matrix, Composite, nBox, Trending, Transposed, BIRT, dashboards, Discovery Boards, Worksheets, and Prism Analytics.
• Translates complex business requirements into clear, scalable reporting solutions and confirms requirements, priorities, and expected outcomes with stakeholders.
• Builds executive‑level analytics packages and leads projects involving new or significantly enhanced reports, dashboards, and analytics capabilities.
• Develops reporting components needed to support integrations and modifications, including Report‑as‑a‑Service (RaaS) outputs.
• Diagnoses and resolves complex reports, calculated fields, performance, data, and security‑related issues

• Owns and governs the Workday reporting architecture for the MD Connect tenant, including standards for report types, data sources, calculated fields, naming conventions, output formats, security access patterns, and report lifecycle management.
• Architects the Workday reporting data layer, including Prism Analytics datasets, pipelines, transformation patterns, data taxonomy, and external data ingestion strategies
• Defines data models, business‑object hierarchies, field‑level definitions, and cross‑module relationships used in reports, dashboards, and analytics solutions
• Designs multi‑module reporting solutions that support scalability, performance, data consistency, security, and long‑term maintainability across the tenant
• Establishes and maintains RaaS architecture standards for endpoint design, authentication, scheduling, and delivery to downstream business intelligence and middleware platforms.
• Evaluates integration patterns and data‑delivery approaches between Workday reporting and external analytics platforms.
• Maintains reporting standards, design documentation, architecture decision records, reusable component libraries, and the report repository.
• Conducts periodic architecture reviews to assess usage, performance, redundancy, and structural integrity and leads remediation efforts.

• Leads, develops, and provides technical direction to report developers and analysts; establishes priorities, assigns work, and monitors delivery against agreed‑upon requirements and timelines.
• Serves as the primary technical escalation point for complex report development, data model, security, performance, and cross‑module reporting issues.
• Provides technical reviews and quality oversight for report design, development, testing, deployment, and documentation.
• Establishes team practices that promote consistent development methods, knowledge sharing, documentation, and effective use of reporting tools.
• Provides coaching,…