Workday Principal Solution Architect

Role Description

The Workday Central Sustain Principal Solution Architect proactively and holistically leads and supports EA activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. They understand the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value streams, and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis, and design tasks related to supporting the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards.

Key responsibilities include:

• Works closely with Workday Finance, Supply Chain and HR business leads to connect business problems and requirements to Workday technical capabilities.
• Leads discovery workshops; captures requirements, process maps, and design decisions (future state, controls, and impacts).
• Translates requirements into technical designs, estimates, and delivery plans.
• Creates and governs functional design artifacts (solution design, BP design, security design, data/worktags strategy, reporting strategy, test strategy).
• Establishes, manages and maintains configuration standards and guardrails (naming conventions, shared objects, condition rules, calculated fields, dependencies).
• Guides tenant configuration approach: business processes, security roles, org structures, eligibility rules, compensation frameworks, and validations.
• Drives test planning and execution (SIT/UAT), defect triage, and readiness; ensures traceability from requirement → design → test.
• Creates standards for reporting solution and oversees reporting governance.
• Works with functional areas to guide inbound/outbound data strategy (loads, conversions, incremental updates, validation).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (Preferred)
• Experience in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree - 10+ years of relevant experience without a degree

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience with a degree
• Experience in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree - 10+ years of relevant experience without a degree
• Proven delivery leadership in a Workday core area (FIN, SCM, HCM).
• Experience leading technical design, estimates, and execution across multiple workstreams.
• Strong troubleshooting skills (integration failures, data issues, security access, performance).
• Demonstrated ability to lead functional design decisions, manage trade-offs, and influence stakeholders.
• Experience with end-to-end application lifecycle management: discovery, design, configure, test, deploy.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with data conversion at scale and complex cutovers.
• Exposure to Prism Analytics, Extend, Payroll interfaces, Benefits/Finance integrations, or IAM (SSO).
• Exposure to integrations (EIB, Core Connectors, Studio), reporting (advanced reports, calc fields), and/or Prism.
• Functional architecture and process design (fit-to-standard mindset).

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
• Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Resources Plan
• Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.