Workday Solutions Architect

Montrose Environmental Group • Irvine, CA

2d • $150,000 - $160,000

About The Position

Why Montrose Montrose exists for planet and progress, empowered by the powerful nexus of science, data, and technology. We operate at the intersection of environmental intelligence, regulatory insight, and advanced digital platforms, helping our customers make smarter, faster decisions that genuinely matter. This is real-world environmental impact, backed by serious data, real customers, and a scale that matters. If you want your work to have tangible impact while operating at an enterprise technical level, this is that role. Who are we? We are Montrose, a global environmental services provider offering environmental planning and permitting, measurement and analytical services, and environmental resiliency and sustainability solutions. Our qualified engineers, scientists, technicians, associates, and policy experts are proud of our collective expertise and the collaborative nature of our approach to helping clients. We strive to optimize environmental resiliency in a way that effectively complements our clients’ decision-making and operations and efficiently fulfills their project requirements. We have over 95 offices across the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia and over 3500 employees – all ready to provide solutions for environmental needs. What We Can Offer You Our Mission is: To help protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the soil that feeds us, and is supported by our Principles: We Value Our People, We Value Our Community, We Value Our Clients, We Value Our Shareholders. We care for the well-being of our people and offer: Mentorship and professional development resources to advance your career Direct exposure to our industry’s leading experts who are solving the world’s toughest environmental challenges An entrepreneurial environment where you can learn, thrive and collaborate with talented colleagues Opportunities to engage and contribute in our Diversity, Fairness and Inclusion and Women Empowering Leadership employee resource groups Competitive compensation package: annual salary ranging from $150,000 - $160,000 USD commensurate with accomplishments, performance, credentials and geography Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage 401k with a competitive 4% employer match Progressive vacation policies, company holidays and paid parental leave benefits to ensure work/life balance A financial assistance program that supports peers in need, known as the Montrose Foundation Access to attractive student loan rates to optimize your student loan payoff plans The Role As Montrose continues to grow and evolve, so does the need for platforms that enable our people, processes, and performance. The Workday Solutions Architect is a platform lead that plays a critical role in owning the design, configuration, architecture, and technical evolution of our Workday platform across Finance, Projects, and HRIS. You’ll step into a widely adopted Workday environment with under-leveraged integrations and significant opportunity to elevate efficiency, simplify complexity, and drive best-in-class platform maturity. This role is designed for someone who is opinionated, decisive, and pragmatic, comfortable challenging legacy configurations and translating business needs into scalable technical solutions. In addition to hands-on architectural leadership, you’ll lead a small team of Workday developers, setting technical standards, prioritizing delivery, and shaping the future of the Workday ecosystem at Montrose. If you’re passionate about building platforms that empower people, enable change, and support meaningful work at scale—this is a role where your impact will be felt every day.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience in enterprise applications, platform architecture, or software engineering, with at least 3+ years of hands-on Workday experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Deep experience architecting, configuring, and optimizing Workday Finance, Projects, and/or HCM
• Strong Workday integration tool expertise (Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Extend, APIs)
• Solid understanding of Workday architecture, data model, security framework, and business process configuration
• Experience leading or mentoring Workday developers or technical delivery teams
• Proven ability to simplify complex implementations and make confident, pragmatic architectural decisions
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, ensuring thorough testing and documentation of results
• You respectfully challenge your peers, and welcome the opportunity when others challenge you.
• You are flexible, resilient, and curious.
• You draw inspiration from prior art, but you feel compelled to innovate beyond it.

Nice To Haves

• Workday Integration or Extend certifications
• Experience with enterprise data platforms, analytics, or downstream reporting
• Exposure to compliance or audit frameworks (SOX, data privacy)
• Experience modernizing under-integrated or legacy Workday environments

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Workday architecture across Finance, Projects, and HRIS
• Define and enforce configuration, integration, security, and monitoring standards
• Lead targeted reconfiguration efforts to simplify workflows, reduce manual processes, and improve data quality. Ensure the reconfigurations align with company objectives and drive accountable delivery.
• Design, review, and oversee integrations and extensions (Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Extend, APIs)
• Establish architectural governance, documentation, and technical best practices
• Serve as the final technical escalation point for complex platform decisions
• Lead, mentor, manage, and set technical direction for a team of Workday developers
• Partner with HR, Finance, Projects, IT leadership, and external vendors

Benefits

• Mentorship and professional development resources to advance your career
• Direct exposure to our industry’s leading experts who are solving the world’s toughest environmental challenges
• An entrepreneurial environment where you can learn, thrive and collaborate with talented colleagues
• Opportunities to engage and contribute in our Diversity, Fairness and Inclusion and Women Empowering Leadership employee resource groups
• Competitive compensation package: annual salary ranging from $150,000 - $160,000 USD commensurate with accomplishments, performance, credentials and geography
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• 401k with a competitive 4% employer match
• Progressive vacation policies, company holidays and paid parental leave benefits to ensure work/life balance
• A financial assistance program that supports peers in need, known as the Montrose Foundation
• Access to attractive student loan rates to optimize your student loan payoff plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees