Workday HCM Solution Lead

Guidehouse • Dallas, TX

1d • $135,000 - $225,000

About The Position

Operating within the IT HCM portfolio, the Workday HCM Solution Lead serves as the senior solution advisor for the Workday HCM platform. The role combines deep technical expertise with a holistic understanding of how Workday capabilities, business processes, data, and integrations work together to create an effective user experience. It develops recommendations and guides architecture, data stewardship, governance, roadmap execution, risk management, operational health, and responsible adoption of AI, automation, and emerging Workday capabilities in alignment with direction and priorities established by IT HCM Portfolio Leadership. The role accounts for the people and organizational impacts of the platform when designing solutions.

The Solution Lead partners with IT HCM and Finance Portfolio Leadership, the Workday Finance Solution Lead, HR stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Data and Analytics, delivery teams, and strategic partners to align HCM standards and execution with shared capabilities across the broader Workday ecosystem. It recommends platform strategy, architecture, operating models, and standards; coordinates cross-platform decisions and dependencies; provides technical guidance for roadmap delivery; and oversees technology governance, risks, controls, and operational health.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree plus 8 or more years of relevant experience, or 12 or more years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• Deep Workday HCM expertise across platform capabilities, configuration, integrations, security, architecture, and operational considerations.
• Experience serving as a platform solution lead or senior technical lead accountable for platform strategy and delivery outcomes.
• Strong understanding of how Workday HCM architecture, lifecycle management, integrations, security, data, business processes, change management, and operational support fit together across the broader Workday ecosystem.
• Demonstrated ability to design for user experience and the people and organizational impacts of the system.
• Demonstrated ability to assess complex technology decisions and communicate recommendations, risks, investment needs, and tradeoffs to senior and executive leadership.
• Experience leading cross-functional work involving IT Delivery, Architecture, Security, Data, business stakeholders, vendors, and implementation partners.

Nice To Haves

• Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Advanced Workday certifications, such as Workday Pro – HCM Core, Absence, Talent & Performance, Advanced Compensation, or Recruiting.
• Master’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or Data Science.
• Experience with people analytics, reporting platforms, or data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Demonstrated progression toward senior technical authority roles such as Principal Platform Lead, Lead Architect, or Distinguished Technologist.

Responsibilities

• Develop and recommend the Workday HCM technical strategy, architecture, operating model, and standards for approval by IT HCM Portfolio Leadership, and advise on HCM priorities for the 18-month portfolio roadmap.
• Evaluate Workday HCM platform capabilities, constraints, technical tradeoffs, and emerging functionality.
• Establish architecture and platform standards covering configuration, integrations, extensions, security, data, reporting, downstream consumption, and solution design.
• Steward Workday HCM data integrity and access in partnership with business Data Owners and enterprise Data Governance.
• Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture, security, privacy, change management, and technology standards.
• Partner with the Workday Financials Solution Lead to align architecture, technology standards, integration patterns, security guardrails, environments, releases, and governance across HCM, Financials, and shared capabilities.
• Coordinate cross-platform dependencies and decisions affecting HCM, Financials, integrations, data, security, reporting, and shared capabilities.
• Lead HCM architecture decisions for shared Workday capabilities and coordinate decisions affecting other areas with the Workday Finance Solution Lead and enterprise teams.
• Escalate unresolved cross-platform issues, decision conflicts, and risks to IT Portfolio Leadership.
• Define Workday HCM architecture, technical approaches, and HCM-specific guardrails for AI, Agents, automation, Workday Extend, and emerging capabilities in alignment with enterprise standards.
• Co-govern Workday Extend with the Workday Finance Solution Lead, including shared modules, architecture standards, development practices, security, release coordination, and ownership of cross-functional capabilities.
• Partner with IT Portfolio Leadership to identify opportunities and promote reusable enterprise patterns and standards.
• Evaluate Workday-native and enterprise capabilities for alignment with Workday HCM architecture, the broader Workday ecosystem, and enterprise technology strategy.
• Evaluate approved HCM roadmap items with the IT HCM Portfolio Lead, jointly assign work with the HCM Delivery Lead, and provide technical guidance while the HCM Delivery Lead oversees execution.
• Support portfolio demand and prioritization governance by assessing feasibility, dependencies, risks, effort, and technical sequencing.
• Provide oversight of major HCM initiatives, ensuring solution decisions account for user experience, business process, change, adoption, and people and organizational impacts, while empowering functional, technical, integration, analytics, and support leaders to manage execution.
• Establish measures for HCM platform health, delivery effectiveness, operational performance, and roadmap execution.
• Provide technical recommendations to IT Portfolio Leadership on investment needs, resources, risks, dependencies, vendor performance, and strategic opportunities.
• Establish and oversee technology governance and decision rights for HCM solution design, security, integrations, data, releases, environments, changes, and production operations across relevant business, technology, and partner teams.
• Oversee Workday HCM platform technology risk, technical debt, architectural complexity, and lifecycle risks.
• Ensure controls, documentation, and governance practices support audit readiness, regulatory requirements, and operational continuity.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance.
• Personal and family sick time and company-paid holidays.
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus.
• Parental leave and adoption assistance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Basic life and supplemental life insurance.
• Health Savings Account and dental/vision and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Student Loan PayDown.
• Tuition reimbursement, personal development, and learning opportunities.
• Skills development and certifications.
• Employee referral program.
• Corporate-sponsored events and community outreach.
• Emergency back-up childcare program.
• Mobility stipend.

What This Job Offers

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