Enterprise Architect, Workday

Fortra•Eden Prairie, MN

18d•$90,000 - $110,000•Remote

About The Position

Fortra is seeking an experienced Workday Architect to lead the design, governance, and optimization of its Workday ecosystem across HCM and Financials. The role combines technology strategy, enterprise architecture, and delivery leadership, partnering with HR, Finance, IT, Security, and Data/Analytics stakeholders to keep Workday secure, scalable, and resilient. The architect establishes platform guardrails, defines secure integration and data patterns, and guides engineers and administrators in delivering high-quality outcomes. The role provides architectural leadership and governance. Workday Administrators and IAM Operations handle day-to-day administration, provisioning, and routine operational requests. HR and Finance Product Owners retain responsibility for business process ownership and policy decisions; the architect ensures designs are implementable, secure, and supportable.

Requirements

At least 7 years of hands-on Workday experience, with strong expertise in both HCM and Financials.
Proven experience architecting Workday solutions in complex enterprise environments, including security, business processes, integrations, and reporting patterns.
Deep understanding of the Workday security model, business-process framework, and integration technologies such as EIB, Core Connectors, Studio, and PECI.
Experience with Workday release management, tenant strategy, and platform governance.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, including the ability to influence senior stakeholders and guide cross-functional teams.
Ability to define scalable architecture patterns, standards, and roadmaps.
Knowledge of least privilege, access governance, segregation of duties, audit readiness, and data protection.
Knowledge of API and integration patterns, monitoring and reliability, and secure delivery of data to downstream platforms.
Ability to explain technical concepts as clear, actionable guidance for non-technical stakeholders.
Experience mentoring, facilitating decisions, and coordinating across teams in project and operational contexts.
Typically, five or more years of progressive experience in enterprise applications, architecture, or platform engineering roles, including Workday.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience (degree preferred).
Workday certifications in HCM, Financials, Integrations, or Architecture.
Experience with large-scale Workday implementations, multi-phase rollouts, or post-merger harmonization.
Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and integration middleware or API-based patterns.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end architecture and solution design across Workday HCM and Financials, aligned with enterprise standards and business strategy.
Translate business requirements into scalable Workday configuration, business-process, reporting, and integration designs.
Define and maintain architecture roadmaps, reference architectures, and design patterns.
Govern Workday security architecture, including role frameworks, domain and business-process security, and least-privilege access models.
Partner with IAM and Security teams on SSO, identity lifecycle, and auditable access reviews.
Establish segregation-of-duties principles and controls, and support audit evidence and remediation related to Workday access and process controls.
Architect and oversee integrations and data flows between Workday and enterprise platforms, including IAM, payroll, finance, CRM, ITSM, and data warehouses.
Set integration reliability standards for monitoring, error handling, reconciliation, and recovery, and ensure integrations remain supportable through releases.
Define governance patterns for Workday extracts and feeds, ensuring sensitive data is handled securely and aligned with enterprise analytics standards.
Own or co-own Workday tenant strategy, migration approach, and controls for promoting configuration to production.
Lead bi-annual release impact assessments and coordinate technical readiness, including regression and integration testing, cutover validation, and stabilization.
Establish change governance, including documentation, approvals, and operational handoff standards.
Provide architectural oversight for projects, enhancements, and incident and problem remediation; serve as the technical authority for platform decisions.
Drive platform optimization, including performance, configuration rationalization, data quality, and reliability improvements.
Evaluate Workday features, modules, and capabilities and recommend adoption strategies and roadmap enhancements based on business value and risk.
Partner with cross-functional leaders to align priorities, scope solutions, and communicate trade-offs and risks.
Guide and mentor Workday engineers, administrators, and analysts; promote consistent engineering practices, testing discipline, and knowledge sharing.
Collaborate with external partners and vendors to support high-quality delivery and adherence to architecture and security standards.