Director, People Technology Architecture

Description About Alvarez & Marsal

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals. We take a hands-on approach to solving our clients' problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are why our people love working at A&M.

The Director, People Technology Architecture will be responsible for owning the Workday platform architecture and technical roadmap at Alvarez & Marsal. As a global, Workday-first organization with an active and expanding footprint - including a data warehouse build, enterprise integrations, emerging AI initiatives, and a deliberate strategy to consolidate fragmented HR tools into Workday as the single source of truth - the function is at an inflection point and needs a senior technical leader to define how the platform scales.

A&M operates across multiple geographies with a growing international presence. This role is central to the firm’s long-term strategy to rationalize the people technology landscape - leveraging Workday’s full capabilities to reduce tool sprawl, streamline processes, and establish a clean, scalable, and globally consistent architecture.

This position is a player-coach: hands-on in design and delivery while building and leading a growing architecture practice. This role reports directly to the Global People Technology Leader.

• Owns end-to-end Workday platform architecture across all active modules and drives standards for configuration, design, and governance across the People Tech function - built for scale from the start.
• Leads architectural design for new module rollouts and platform expansions including Workday Extend, Orchestrate, Prism, and Build technologies.
• Serves as the technical authority and escalation point for complex cross-module design decisions.
• Establishes architectural documentation standards, design review processes, and runbooks that reduce technical debt, eliminate single points of failure, and reduce contractor dependency.
• Designs Workday architecture with global scale as a first principle - ensuring configuration, security, business processes, and integrations are built to support new geographies, entities, and workforce segments without re-architecture, with governance frameworks that allow local variation while maintaining platform integrity.
• Leads the architectural strategy to rationalize and consolidate fragmented HR tools into Workday - systematically assessing the current landscape to identify tools that can be retired, replaced, or absorbed into native capabilities, and establishing Workday as the firm's single source of truth for people data.
• Defines the consolidation roadmap in partnership with the Global People Technology Leader - sequencing migrations and retirements in a way that is practical, low-risk, and aligned to business priorities.
• Partners with IT, Finance, and business stakeholders to build the business case for tool rationalization initiatives and drive alignment on consolidation decisions.
• Designs Workday architecture that proactively closes the gaps that currently require third-party tools - leveraging Extend, Orchestrate, and emerging AI capabilities to deliver functionality natively where possible.
• Ensures data consistency and integrity as systems are consolidated - defining migration patterns, data validation standards, and cutover approaches that protect data quality throughout.
• Defines and owns the People Technology roadmap across Workday and adjacent platforms, aligned to A&M’s global growth strategy and platform consolidation objectives.
• Leads evaluation and adoption of emerging Workday capabilities - Agentic AI, Extend, Prism, Orchestrate, and Build - scoping use cases, designing pilots, and translating them into sequenced roadmap items that reduce dependency on external tools.
• Partners with the People Data, Analytics and Reporting (PDAR)…