Principal Workday Technical Architect

Principal Workday Technical Architect

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Mastercard is seeking a highly experienced Principal Workday Technical Architect to define and drive the long-term architecture strategy for Workday and the broader People & Capability technology ecosystem. This role serves as a technical authority for Workday and the broader HR technology architecture, integrations, extensibility, security, data management, and platform modernization. The Principal Architect partners with business leaders, product, engineering, security, and governance teams to deliver scalable, secure, resilient, and future-ready solutions that support Mastercard's global workforce.

The successful candidate will combine deep Workday and broader HR technical expertise with enterprise architecture experience, bringing thought leadership, strategic vision, and hands-on architectural guidance across HCM, Recruiting, Talent, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Learning, and adjacent domains.

Role

• Define the long-term architecture, standards, and roadmap for the Workday and related People & Capability technologies.
• Lead the design of scalable, secure, and resilient Workday solutions, integrations, and platform capabilities.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product teams, and engineering leaders to translate strategic priorities into technology solutions.
• Govern architecture decisions, ensure alignment with enterprise standards, and drive simplification of the technology landscape.
• Evaluate emerging Workday capabilities and innovation opportunities to improve employee experience, operational efficiency, and business outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and architectural guidance, influencing engineering teams on design best practices, solution trade-offs, and implementation strategies.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, clearly communicating complex architectural topics in concise, business oriented language to support informed decision making.
• Produce and govern key architectural documentation, ensuring compliance with Mastercard's engineering principles and security standards.

All About You

• 10+ years of enterprise application architecture and engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on Workday technical architecture experience in large, complex enterprises
• Deep and proven expertise in implementing Workday integrations using Studio, Core Connectors, EIB, APIs, web services, and middleware platforms.
• Experience architecting and governing Workday Extend solutions to address complex business requirements while minimizing customization and technical debt
• Expertise in Workday security architecture, governance, compliance, and audit controls.
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, API design, modern data architectures, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale transformation and modernization programs.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence strategic decisions across technology and business organizations.
• Motivated by continuous learning and challenge, bringing curiosity, resilience, and energy to complex problem spaces and opportunities for impact.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the…