Enterprise Architect, Workday

Whether you’re an experienced professional or just getting started, your contributions matter  you’re passionate about tackling meaningful challenges alongside talented team members committed to helping each other succeed, all while having lots of fun, we want to hear from you. We offer competitive benefits and salaries, personal and professional development opportunities, flexibility, and much more!

While our company operates remotely, our current hiring strategy is focused on building talent communities in Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Eden Prairie, and the New York–New Jersey–Connecticut tri-state area.

We are seeking an experienced Workday Architect with deep expertise across Workday HCM and Workday Financials to lead the design, governance, and optimization of our Workday ecosystem. This role operates at the intersection of technology strategy, enterprise architecture, and delivery leadership—partnering with HR, Finance, IT, Security, and Data/Analytics stakeholders to ensure Workday remains a secure, scalable, and resilient system of record.

The Workday Architect sets platform guardrails, defines secure integration and data patterns, and guides engineers and administrators to deliver high-quality outcomes.

WHAT YOU'LL DO Solution Architecture & Design Lead end-to-end architecture and solution design across Workday HCM and Financials, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and business strategy.

Translate complex business requirements into scalable Workday designs (configuration, business processes, reporting approach, and integration patterns).Define and maintain architecture roadmaps, reference architectures, and design patterns that enable consistent delivery and reduce technical debt.

Security & Identity Architecture Define and govern Workday security architecture, including role frameworks, domain/business process security, and least-privilege access models.

Partner with IAM and Security teams to ensure SSO, identity lifecycle (joiner/mover/leaver), and access reviews are correctly integrated and auditable.

Establish and enforce segregation-of-duties (SoD) principles and controls; support audit evidence and remediation activities related to Workday access and process controls.

Integration & Data Strategy Architect and oversee integrations and data flows between Workday and connected enterprise platforms (e.g., IAM, payroll, finance, CRM, ITSM, data warehouse).Set standards for integration reliability (monitoring, error handling, reconciliation, and recovery) and ensure integrations remain supportable through releases.

Define data governance patterns for Workday extracts/feeds, including secure handling of sensitive data (PII/financial data) and alignment with enterprise analytics standards.

Release, Environment & Change Governance Own or co-own Workday tenant strategy (prod/sandbox/preview), migration approach, and controls for configuration promotion to production.

Lead bi-annual Workday release impact assessments and coordinate technical readiness (regression/integration testing strategy, cutover validation, and stabilization).Establish change governance for Workday platform changes, including standards for documentation, approvals, and operational handoff.

Platform Leadership & Optimization Serve as the technical authority for Workday platform decisions; provide architectural oversight across projects, enhancements, and incident/problem remediation.

Drive platform optimization efforts (performance, configuration rationalization, data quality, and reliability improvements).Evaluate new Workday features, modules, and capabilities; recommend adoption strategies and roadmap enhancements based on business value and risk.

Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery Leadership…