Workday Architect

Goals & Objectives :

This role is responsible for solution design, development, and deployment within their Product Team. They will collaborate with business stakeholders and IT Leadership to recommend solutions and maintain documentation related to enhancements. They will participate in the development of approved solutions and deployment to Production. They will serve as an escalation point and subject matter expert for the Workday platform.

Job Functions :

1. Design/Development :

- Interpreting and translating goals into technical specifications, delivering recommendations around technologies and approach.

- Participate in vendors and third-party projects to ensure successful delivery.

- Collaborating with other Architects and Developers to provide technical design guidance to align with strategy and applicable technical standards.

- Working independently to evaluate and recommend strategic decisions that will address specific technology design needs.

- Mitigating the impact of technical design on security, performance, and data privacy.

- Participating in application solutions including assisting with planning and architectural design, development, resolution of technical issues and application rationalization.

- Deliver new features and functionality as needed to supplement development capacity.

- Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point for development efforts.

2. Deploy :

- Clearly identify deployment steps related to feature branches created.

- Actively work with deployment team to resolve any deployment issues.

- Assist in maintaining repository with latest code.

- Hold code review meetings with management to demonstrate functionality.

Education/Skill Requirements :

Required Experience :

- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in IT or related field.

- 8 years experience configuring in Workday GL, HCM, Talent Management, Recruiting and Security configuration.

- 3 - 5 years experience as an active architect.

- Must have strong communication, presentation and relationship building skills.

- Must have experience with iterative or agile software development methodologies.

- Must have a strong understanding of cloud SaaS architecture principles and integration patterns.

- Must have experience working in a global/virtual team environment.

- Must demonstrate strong background in the areas of Java, JavaScript, XML, XSLT, XPath, JSON, oAuth 2.0.

- Must have experience with Report as a Service.

- Must have experience with Workday connectors.

- Must have experience with Document Transformation & EIB.

- Solid understanding of security and data privacy standards, data governance and integration/development standards and best practices.

Preferred Experience :

- Nice to have Workday Studio integration experience.

- Nice to have experience with Incent.

- Nice to have experience with Concur.

- Nice to have experience with Workday API integration in both SOAP and REST.

- Nice to have Azure and .NET experience.

- Workday Certified Integration preferred.

- Experience working in the following tools is a plus :

1. Bitbucket

2. GearSet

3. Jira

- Financial Services experience is a plus.

- Salesforce experience is nice to have.

Skills

Workday, Workday Integration, Workday Implementation, Workday HCM, Workday Recruiting, Workday EIB, Workday Report, Workday Studio