Workday Solution Architect

The Role:

Solution Architect - Workday

Location:

Reading, UK

Position Type:
Contract Inside IR35

Remote work option Available: 3
- Days Work from Office

• Proven experience (5yrs +) designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions across platforms, products, or domains.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience working in technology.
• Appropriate degree or relevant professional qualifications.
• Experience of systems development change life cycles, best practices and approaches.
• Deep understanding of solution architecture principles, frameworks (e.g. TOGAF), and best practices.
• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical peers and stakeholders alike.
• Role Dependant skills & knowledge (e.g. app/data/tech/platform)

• Lead the end-to-end architecture for the Workday Learning platform, including alignment of learning capabilities, colleague experience and enterprise architecture standards.
• Define and govern learning-related data architecture, ensuring foundational data dependencies, ownership models and system-of-record principles are clearly established.
• Design authentication and access approaches supporting Workday SSO, MFA and secure colleague access across all user populations.
• Establish architecture patterns for learning access on shared retail devices, kiosks and frontline colleague technology.
• Assess and govern integration impacts across HR, identity, employee experience and third‑party learning ecosystems.
• Define the target‑state user journey across Workday Learning and MY P&C, ensuring a seamless and consistent colleague experience.
• Lead archiving, retention and decommissioning architecture activities for legacy learning platforms and data repositories.

• Define architecture roadmaps and solution direction for strategic colleague-facing capabilities, including Workday Learning, Colleague Discount and broader Workday transformation initiatives.
• Drive capability assessments, KDDs and roadmap development to support future‑state colleague experience platforms.
• Ensure alignment between colleague services, HR technology strategy and enterprise architecture principles.

• Own and maintain architectural blueprints supporting Workday Evolve and regional deployments, including Workday Germany.
• Define solution architecture standards, integration principles and target‑state designs across the Workday ecosystem.
• Assess impacts of new capabilities, regulatory requirements and localisation needs on the overall Workday architecture landscape.
• Support architectural decision making across multiple concurrent Workday transformation work streams.

• Define integration patterns between Workday, identity platforms, employee experience platforms and wider enterprise services.
• Establish secure identity and access management approaches, including authentication, provisioning, SSO and MFA adoption.
• Provide architectural leadership for cross-platform dependencies, ensuring scalable, supportable and secure solutions.