Workday Product Architect III - Solutions Center; Remote

The Workday Reporting and Data Analytics Architect is MCW's senior individual-contributor architect for the Workday platform. The role serves as design authority for complex, cross-module Workday solutions spanning HCM, Payroll, and Finance, and owns the architecture, security design, and report configuration standards for Workday reporting and data delivery.

The Architect sets the technical direction that other analysts and report writers build within. The role does not supervise staff, but it is accountable for the quality and consistency of Workday reporting work through formal mentoring, design review, and published standards.

The Architect partners with Workday Solution Center leadership, Enterprise BI Architecture, IS, HR, Finance, and senior institutional stakeholders. The role ensures Workday remains a trusted, well-governed system of record and a reliable source for downstream enterprise analytics.

This position is 100% remote. All remote work must be performed within one of the MCW registered payroll states, which currently includes: WI, AL, AZ, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, TN, TX, and UT.

• Serve as design authority for complex, cross-module Workday solutions, reviewing and approving designs before build.
• Define and maintain the target-state Workday architecture across HCM, Payroll, and Finance, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance.
• Lead architecture for the highest-risk and highest-visibility initiatives, including new module deployments, major business process redesigns, and organizational changes.
• Establish architectural standards, design patterns, and naming conventions applied across Workday configuration, integrations, and reporting.
• Determine security models to be used for complex reporting
• Anticipate the downstream impact of Workday semi-annual releases and recommend adoption strategy and sequencing.

• Own the architecture of Workday reporting, including custom reports, calculated fields, composite and matrix reports, dashboards, and Prism Analytics data sources.
• Define reporting standards for report design, data source selection, calculated field reuse, performance, and report lifecycle management.
• Govern the Workday report inventory, retiring duplicate or obsolete reports and consolidating overlapping calculated fields.
• Partner with Enterprise BI Architecture to design governed data extracts from Workday into the enterprise data platform, ensuring consistent business definitions across operational and enterprise reporting.
• Ensure reporting security aligns with Workday domain and role-based security, protecting sensitive HR, compensation, and payroll data.

• Mentor Workday report writers and analysts on report design, calculated fields, data sources, and security, building team capability and independence.
• Conduct design and peer reviews of reports, configuration, and integrations, providing documented feedback and approving work against standards.
• Develop training materials, reference guides, and reusable templates that raise baseline quality across the reporting team.
• Provide technical direction on work prioritization and approach in coordination with the team's manager, without holding direct supervisory authority.

• Advise Workday Solution Center leadership on platform roadmap within area of expertise technical debt, and investment priorities.
• Translate complex technical architecture into clear options and recommendations for senior HR, Finance, and IS leaders.
• Evaluate Workday product direction, emerging capabilities, and industry practices, recommending adoption where…