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They understand the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value streams, and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis, and design tasks related to supporting the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. They create deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of \"to be\" and \"as is\" solutions - including systems (applications, processes, information, and technology), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.\nThe Workday Central Sustain Principal Solution Architect partners with business leads and stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, secure, supportable technical solutions across the Workday ecosystem. This role must have in depth understanding of current and upcoming Workday capabilities, as well as understand impacts that changes/enhancements will have on existing configuration, business processes, and data elements across the platform. This role partners with HR/Finance leaders, IT, security, and integration/reporting teams to ensure a cohesive tenant design, high-quality releases, and measurable business outcomes.\nKey responsibilities\n Works closely with Workday Finance, Supply Chain and HR business leads to connect business problems and requirements to Workday technical capabilities. Leads discovery workshops; capture requirements, process maps, and design decisions (future state, controls, and impacts).\nTranslates requirements into technical designs, estimates, and delivery plans.\nCreates and governs functional design artifacts (solution design, BP design, security design, data/worktags strategy, reporting strategy, test strategy).\nEstablishes, manages and maintains configuration standards and guardrails (naming conventions, shared objects, condition rules, calculated fields, dependencies).\nGuides tenant configuration approach: business processes, security roles, org structures, eligibility rules, compensation frameworks, and validations.\nDrives test planning and execution (SIT/UAT), defect triage, and readiness; ensure traceability from requirement → design → test.\nCreates standards for reporting solution and oversee reporting governance.\nWork with functional areas to guide inbound/outbound data strategy (loads, conversions, incremental updates, validation).\nEducation\nBachelor's Degree (Preferred)\nExperience in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree - 10+ years of relevant experience without a degree \nCertification/Licensure\n Workday Pro certification/s (Preferred)\nExperience\nRequired qualifications\n8+ years of relevant experience with a degree \nExperience in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree. 10+ years of relevant experience without a degree \nProven delivery leadership in a Workday core area (FIN, SCM, HCM). \nExperience leading technical design, estimates, and execution across multiple workstreams.\nStrong troubleshooting skills (integration failures, data issues, security access, performance).\nDemonstrated ability to lead functional design decisions, manage trade-offs, and influence stakeholders.\nExperience with end-to-end application lifecycle management: discovery, design, configure, test, deploy.\nExcellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nPreferred qualifications\nExperience with data conversion at scale and complex cutovers.\nExposure to Prism Analytics, Extend, Payroll interfaces, Benefits/Finance integrations, or IAM (SSO).\nExposure to integrations (EIB, Core Connectors, Studio), reporting (advanced reports, calc fields), and/or Prism.\nFunctional architecture and process design (fit-to-standard mindset).\n\nKeywords: Workday SCM HCM\n\nWe provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay range for full-time employment is $153,670.40 - $228,009.60 annually. Additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call pay, shift premiums, extra-shift incentives, or bonus opportunities. Compensation within the range may vary based on qualifications, experience, location, market conditions, and business needs. Note: If an annual salary is posted, it is based on a full-time colleague working 2,080 hours annually.\n\nSentara offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; 401(k)/403(b) with employer match; paid time off (vacation, sick time, and holidays); paid parental and military leave; educational assistance or student loan repayment; and voluntary benefits.\nBenefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career\n\n Medical, Dental, Vision plans\nAdoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000\nPaid Time Off and Sick Leave\nPaid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave\nEmergency Backup Care\nLong-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans\nLife Insurance\n401k/403B with Employer Match\nTuition Assistance - $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education\nStudent Debt Pay Down - $10,000\nPet Insurance •Legal Resources Plan •Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.\nSentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. 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