Business​/ERP Platform Expert, HR

1.0 FTE Full time Day - 08 Hour R2659642 Hybrid  TDS Bus-Finance Systems ERP Technology & Digital Solutions PALO ALTO, 1830 Embarcadero, California

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

The Platform Expert Engineer - Workday HCM & HR Systems serves as the principal technical authority driving the architectural strategy and continuous evolution of Workday and integrated HR technologies. This role shapes the multi-year platform roadmap by evaluating emerging capabilities, including Workday’s AI features, agentic AI frameworks, and intelligent workflow automation. Partnering with executive leadership, enterprise architects, and HR stakeholders, the expert ensures platform stability, multi-system orchestration, and alignment with enterprise goals.

This is the primary technical lead responsible for:
Strategic Platform Architecture & AI Roadmap, Workday Release Strategy & Testing Governance, Agentic AI & Intelligent Workflow Orchestration, Cross-System Security & Integration Governance, and Executive Stakeholder Engagement.

• Proven experience driving architectural strategy and technical roadmaps for enterprise HR platforms, specifically Workday HCM, security frameworks, and advanced analytics.
• Expertise in evaluating and operationalizing Workday AI innovations, agentic AI agents, and intelligent automated workflows.
• Strong track record in testing governance, major release management, and cross-system integration across HR, Payroll, and IT environments.

• Active Workday Pro certifications (e.g., Workday Pro HCM, Workday Pro Security, Workday Pro Reporting, or Workday Pro Integrations) or Workday Integration Architect certification.

The Applications Platform Expert is a senior individual-contributor role providing deep technical mastery, cross-team solutioning, operational solution impacts and informal leadership within the Applications organization. This role has expertise across a broad healthcare delivery domain, with deeper experience in 1-2 functional technical application areas. This role exists to ensure that the organization's most complex technical, architectural, and solutioning challenges are met with consistent, well-defined expertise that can work across IT functions to examine all available tools and solutions and to bring the right combination to the design.

This position is expected to maintain current, authoritative knowledge of the platform's capabilities,(new releases, features, vendor roadmap) and proactively identifies where these should be applied before a challenge or request exists. The Platform Expert operates as a trusted technical authority, a mentor, and a contributor to team and departmental roadmaps, while explicitly deferring people-management, task assignment, and performance-evaluation authority to formal management and project leadership.

Stanford Health Care

• Technical Solutioning & Tool Evaluation
• Operates at two deliberate altitudes: high-level solution shaping (options, tradeoffs, rough feasibility) before a project is chartered, and deep technical design once work is initiated. Incumbent should have a familiarity with the existing ecosystem and design solutions that are both fit for purpose and coherent with existing platform and future roadmap alignment.
• Evaluates build-vs-buy and native-platform-vs-purpose-built tradeoffs on their technical merits, rather than defaulting to whichever platform already has a feature.
• Maintains working fluency across adjacent IT domains…