Principal Partner AI Architect

Workday•Pleasanton, CA

10d•$138,600 - $243,200•Hybrid

About The Position

The Partner AI Architect (oCIO), at the Principal or Senior Partner Enterprise Architect level, is the technical authority within a strategic partner pod for Workday’s AI platform, integration architecture, agentic capabilities, and Data Cloud. The role equips partner architects, CTOs, and offering developers to design, position, and build on Workday’s platform. It translates complex architecture into credible narratives for CTO-level audiences, creates reference architectures partners can own, and helps ensure partner demo environments show the integrated capabilities of Workday’s platform. The role coordinates with the Forward Deployed Partner Architect aligned to the GSI, who engages on the partner’s largest Workday deals. The position shapes how a partner’s technical practice understands and builds on Workday, supporting platform and agentic decisions at client organizations. It works across partner teams and Workday’s Global Partner Organization, Product & Technology, Forward Deployed, Solution Consulting, and other cross-functional groups to build partner technical readiness, platform strategy, competitive positioning, and scalable technical assets.

Requirements

For the Principal Partner Enterprise Architect level: 7+ years of enterprise software solution consulting, architecture, or hands-on experience supporting enterprise software applications at Workday or a comparable enterprise software company.
For the Principal Partner Enterprise Architect level: 5+ years of applied knowledge of cloud architecture, security, reporting, and integration standards, including API-based and native integration patterns.
For the Principal Partner Enterprise Architect level: 5+ years of Workday experience.
For the Senior Partner Enterprise Architect level: 5+ years of enterprise software solution consulting, architecture, or hands-on experience supporting enterprise software applications at Workday or a comparable enterprise software company.
For the Senior Partner Enterprise Architect level: 3+ years of applied knowledge of cloud architecture, security, reporting, and integration standards, including API-based and native integration patterns.
For the Senior Partner Enterprise Architect level: 3+ years of Workday experience.
Experience working with or within Global System Integrators, large SIs, or strategic technology partners, either from the vendor side or within a GSI or consulting practice.
Demonstrated oCIO-relevant domain expertise, such as platform architecture, AI/ML integration, agentic frameworks, or enterprise technology strategy.
Ability to engage credibly as a technical peer and trusted advisor with GSI CTOs, chief architects, and offering development leads, grounded in deep platform knowledge and/or prior consulting or implementation experience.
Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, outcome-oriented narratives for technical and executive audiences, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
Highly collaborative working style and demonstrated ability to coordinate across cross-functional teams.
Comfort operating in a fast-moving, investment-stage environment where standards are being developed, with a bias toward learning, iteration, and continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

Strong command of Workday’s technical architecture and AI platform, including Sana, Data Cloud, and integration frameworks; equivalent platform experience with a clear record of ramping quickly is also considered.
Experience designing and delivering reference architectures, technical playbooks, or integration standards adopted at scale within a partner or enterprise organization.
Practical understanding of architecting and operationalizing enterprise agentic AI, with curiosity about agents, LLMs, RAG, and MCP.
Prior consulting or implementation experience.
Deep Workday knowledge is highly valued.

Responsibilities

Serve as the pod’s primary technical authority for Workday’s AI platform, integration architecture (A2A and MCP), agentic capabilities, and Data Cloud.
Keep partner architects and technical teams up to date on Workday’s platform and roadmap, including information ahead of general availability.
Design and deliver architect-tier sessions and technical deep dives for partner technical teams.
Translate Workday roadmap updates into implications for partner architecture patterns, delivery standards, and solution portfolios.
Architect reference solutions showing how Workday’s unified platform across HCM, Finance, and agentic AI fits into clients’ broader technology and AI strategies.
Define agent orchestration and governance patterns using Workday’s security framework, data model, and agent system of record.
Design cross-platform agent integration patterns and integration best practices across MCP and A2A.
Help partners identify scalable architectural patterns that create reusable, partner-owned intellectual property.
Equip partner technical teams with current competitive positioning for Workday’s architecture and connected data model.
Translate Workday’s technical differentiation into messaging for CTOs, chief architects, and senior technology leaders, focusing on architectural implications, risk, and long-term platform consequences.
Share partner-developed architectural patterns and technical innovations with Workday Forward Deployed and field teams.
Address partner technical teams’ architectural objections, platform questions, and complex technical issues encountered with clients.
Represent Workday with partners at industry events, technical forums, and architecture conferences, including co-presenting on platform strategy and agentic AI.
Partner with Solution Architecture to shape demo data, functional flows, and provisioning so demos credibly show integrated Workday and GSI-delivered solutions.
Bring partner-built solutions and architectural assets to Solution Architecture so Workday field teams can demonstrate partner-delivered solutions.
Build and maintain code accelerators, integration playbooks, and technical reference materials for partner teams to deploy at scale.
Coordinate with the Forward Deployed Partner Architect on the partner’s largest deals so practice-level architecture standards and patterns support deal-level technical confidence.
Proactively relay partner-practice challenges, emerging patterns, and competitive signals to Workday Product & Technology teams.
Collaborate across GPO, Product & Technology, Forward Deployed, Solution Consulting, and other cross-functional teams.

Benefits

May be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus.
May be eligible for annual refresh stock grants.
Workday comprehensive benefits are referenced; specific benefits are not listed in the posting.

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