Senior Manager - HCM Solutions Architect (Hybrid)

United Airlines • Chicago, IL

2d • $140,600 - $183,108 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager – HCM Solutions Architect serves as the Solution Design Authority for a designated functional domain within the HR Solutions ecosystem. This role designs end-to-end, scalable, and integrated solutions across Workday and adjacent platforms (e.g., ServiceNow, Phenom, Peakon), ensuring architectural integrity, cross-domain alignment, and long-term sustainability. The Architect maintains forward-looking roadmap awareness, proactively proposes domain evolution strategies, and ensures alignment between business priorities and architectural standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of experience in HR Technology and solutions design, including Workday Core HR, Compensation, Advanced Compensation and Security
• 3+ years of Workday reporting experience
• 1+ years of proven people leadership experience
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment or independently
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, tracking multiple projects and pivoting as needed between projects and from high-level to detailed viewpoints
• Ability to manage projects across all phases including scope, requirements, configuration, process definition, deployment and delivery
• Strong consultative, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally to solve business problems by adopting and leveraging technologies to their full potential
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification

Nice To Haves

• 7+ years of experience in HR Technology and solutions design, including Workday Core HR, Compensation, Advanced Compensation and Security
• Workday Pro Certification in HCM Core, Advanced Compensation, or Project Management

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end solutions across Workday and related platforms, define architectural standards, guardrails, and integration patterns, and serve as final design authority for high-impact initiatives
• Lead architectural discovery sessions, oversee solution lifecycle, and own project-level solution governance for major initiatives.
• Evaluate cross-domain dependencies and downstream impacts to ensure solution integrity and alignment across HR, Payroll, and Digital Technology.
• Provide structured project management oversight for complex domain initiatives, ensuring coordination and delivery across multiple stakeholders.
• Proactively identify architectural enhancements and future-state capabilities aligned to 3–5-year domain roadmap, and partner with HR COEs to shape domain solution priorities
• Serve as a trusted advisor to HR and business leaders, translating technical architecture into business value and ensuring alignment with organizational strategy.
• Provide people leadership through mentoring SMEs, elevating architectural rigor, and developing next-level talent capability within the team.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life
• accident & disability
• parental leave
• employee assistance program
• commuter
• paid holidays
• paid time off
• 401(k)
• flight privileges

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior