Workday Solution Architect

CE Global Partners

3d

About The Position

The Workday Solution Architect provides client-side technical leadership and integration design assurance for an initial Workday HCM implementation. The role coordinates and manages the design and delivery of integrations between Workday and downstream applications, working with the System Integrator (SI), internal technical teams, HRIS teams, and third-party application owners. It ensures integration designs are fit for purpose, documented, reviewed, and formally approved, and oversees technical delivery planning, non-production environment readiness, integration testing, cutover, and transition into service.

This is primarily a solution architecture, technical coordination, and delivery assurance role rather than a hands-on integration development position. The architect needs sufficient technical expertise to review and challenge designs and support testing and technical issue resolution. The SI and downstream application teams retain responsibility for developing and configuring integrations, while the architect coordinates end-to-end design, reviews and signs off technical solutions, oversees delivery readiness, and confirms that integrations work across the wider application landscape.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a Solution Architect, Integration Architect, or Technical Lead role on a Workday HCM implementation.
• Strong understanding of Workday architecture, integration capabilities, and integration design principles.
• Experience integrating Workday with multiple downstream enterprise applications.
• Knowledge of Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Web Services, and API-based integrations.
• Experience reviewing and assuring integration designs delivered by a System Integrator.
• Strong understanding of integration patterns, data mapping, transformations, interface scheduling, security, and error handling.
• Experience coordinating technical delivery across multiple suppliers, application owners, and internal technology teams.
• Ability to develop and manage integration delivery plans, technical milestones, dependencies, and RAID logs.
• Experience coordinating non-production environments, connectivity, and technical readiness activities.
• Experience supporting end-to-end integration testing, defect investigation, and technical issue resolution.
• Understanding of integration cutover, deployment planning, and transition into service.
• Strong technical documentation, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience delivering integrations as part of an initial Workday implementation.
• Experience in a client-side solution architecture or technical assurance capacity.
• Familiarity with Workday integrations for payroll, finance, recruitment, identity management, and other HR-related platforms.
• Knowledge of enterprise integration platforms, middleware, and managed file transfer solutions.
• Understanding of Workday security, authentication mechanisms, and integration system users.
• Experience working across complex application landscapes with multiple third-party suppliers.
• Experience supporting integration test execution, reconciliation, and technical defect resolution.
• Familiarity with IT service management processes and transition into operational support.

Responsibilities

• Lead client-side solution architecture and integration design activities across Workday and downstream systems.
• Coordinate design workshops with the SI, HRIS teams, internal IT, and downstream application owners.
• Ensure end-to-end integration designs align with business requirements, technical and security standards, and the wider application architecture.
• Review and challenge integration patterns, data flows, interfaces, scheduling, error handling, and monitoring proposals.
• Ensure integration design documentation is complete, accurate, and maintained; manage its review, approval, and formal sign-off.
• Identify and manage integration dependencies, design gaps, and architectural risks.
• Own and coordinate technical delivery plans for an assigned portfolio of Workday integrations.
• Agree integration scope, responsibilities, development activities, and milestones with the SI and downstream application owners.
• Track integration design, build, testing, and deployment activities against agreed plans.
• Coordinate dependencies among Workday configuration, integration development, and downstream application changes.
• Identify technical delivery risks, issues, and dependencies; ensure timely resolution or escalation and provide progress reporting and RAID management.
• Ensure accountability for technical deliverables across the SI, internal teams, and third-party suppliers.
• Support planning and setup of non-production environments for integration development and testing.
• Support development and review of integration test approaches, scenarios, and acceptance criteria; coordinate testing across Workday, the SI, and downstream teams.
• Ensure end-to-end testing covers data transfer, transformations, error handling, reconciliation, and exception management.
• Execute some integration testing when required; support defect triage, investigation, root-cause analysis, and resolution.
• Review test evidence and support assessment of technical readiness and exit criteria; manage defects and outstanding issues ahead of deployment.
• Support integration cutover plans, technical deployment schedules, and associated dependencies.
• Coordinate deployment activities and document sequencing, connectivity changes, data dependencies, and integration activation.
• Support technical rehearsals, cutover testing, and readiness assessments; identify deployment risks and contribute to contingency and rollback planning.
• Provide technical support during cutover and initial production stabilisation.
• Support transition of integrations into business-as-usual support by ensuring technical documentation, support procedures, and operational handover materials are produced.
• Coordinate knowledge transfer among the SI, internal IT, HRIS, and application support teams.
• Ensure monitoring, error handling, incident management, and support ownership are defined; support operational procedures and support arrangements.
• Assist with hypercare planning, production issue resolution, and transition to steady-state operations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed