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Our platform serves as the technology backbone for modern transit networks, transforming antiquated and siloed public transportation systems into smart, data-driven, and efficient digital networks. With hundreds of agency partners around the world, Via is recognized as the leading transportation technology and service provider globally. \nAs Via’s Senior Workday Platform Architect, you’ll play a critical role in shaping and scaling the Workday ecosystem that supports our global workforce. You will serve as Via’s senior Workday expert and help us build a reliable, well-governed, and best-in-class People technology foundation.\nThis role is ideal for someone who has managed Workday in a large, complex organization and has worked across multiple Workday modules, business processes, integrations, and stakeholder groups. You’ll bring proven practices from mature Workday environments and apply them thoughtfully at Via-strengthening our platform architecture, improving governance, and helping our teams get more value from Workday.\nYou’ll partner closely with Via’s People, Payroll, Finance, and IT teams. In addition to overseeing day-to-day administration and troubleshooting, you’ll help define the long-term direction of our Workday platform and ensure that new solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and designed around a great employee experience.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nServe as Via’s senior Workday platform expert, with ownership across configuration, security, business processes, reporting, integrations, data quality, and system administration.\nHelp define and implement a scalable Workday architecture and operating model, including governance, documentation, change management, testing standards, and release processes.\nEvaluate current Workday configurations and processes, identify gaps or technical debt, and recommend improvements based on experience with mature enterprise environments.\nLead the design, configuration, testing, and deployment of solutions across multiple Workday modules, such as Core HCM, Compensation, Recruiting, Benefits, Absence, Time Tracking, Performance, Talent, and Payroll.\nEnsure that Workday business processes are efficient, consistent, compliant, and able to support Via’s continued growth and organizational complexity.\nDesign, build, and maintain Workday reports, dashboards, calculated fields, and analytics that enable reliable, data-driven decision-making.\nOversee Workday integrations with payroll, benefits, identity management, finance, recruiting, and other enterprise systems, partnering with internal teams and external vendors to ensure accuracy, reliability, and security.\nEstablish strong security and access-management practices, including role-based access, segregation of duties, periodic reviews, and audit readiness.\nLead Workday release planning by evaluating new functionality, assessing business impact, coordinating testing, documenting changes, and communicating recommendations to stakeholders.\nMaintain data integrity through proactive monitoring, recurring audits, reconciliation processes, and root-cause analysis of system or integration issues.\nProvide clear guidance and hands-on support to People team members, managers, employees, and business leaders.\nCreate and maintain documentation for configurations, business processes, integrations, reports, controls, and user procedures.\nBuild strong relationships with Workday, implementation partners, and other vendors while ensuring that Via retains clear internal ownership of its platform.\nStay current on Workday capabilities, product releases, and industry practices, and help Via determine which improvements will deliver meaningful business value.\nWho You Are:\nYou have at least 7 years of hands-on Workday experience, including significant responsibility for administering or designing Workday within a large, complex, or global organization.\nYou have deep experience with Core HCM and meaningful hands-on exposure across several additional Workday modules, such as Compensation, Recruiting, Benefits, Absence, Time Tracking, Performance, Talent, or Payroll.\nYou understand how decisions in one Workday module can affect business processes, security, reporting, integrations, and downstream systems across the broader platform.\nYou have experience improving an established Workday environment-not only maintaining it-and can bring practical examples of governance, architecture, process, or configuration improvements you have led.\nYou have strong knowledge of Workday security, business-process configuration, reporting, calculated fields, data management, and integration concepts.\nYou understand HR operations, payroll processes, compliance requirements, and the controls needed to support accurate and sensitive employee data.\nYou can balance immediate business needs with long-term platform health, avoiding unnecessary customization and designing solutions that remain scalable and maintainable.\nYou are comfortable advising senior stakeholders, challenging assumptions constructively, and translating complex technical topics into clear recommendations.\nYou are highly detail-oriented, organized, and process-driven, with strong judgment and a clear sense of ownership.\nYou thrive in a fast-paced environment, can manage competing priorities, and remain thoughtful and methodical when addressing complex issues.\nWhat Will Set You Apart:\nExperience supporting Workday across multiple countries, legal entities, employee populations, or business units.\nExperience helping an organization mature its Workday governance, architecture, documentation, security, or release-management practices.\nAdvanced Workday reporting and analytics experience.\nExperience with Workday integration technologies such as EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Studio, APIs, or Workday Extend.\nWorkday certifications across multiple functional or technical areas.\nExperience with major Workday implementations, module expansions, acquisitions, reorganizations, or large-scale transformation initiatives.\nCompensation and Benefits:\nFinal salary will be 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The salary range does not include equity or variable compensation, where applicable.\nSalary range: $140,000-$160,000.\nComprehensive health coverage, with low-cost dental and vision plans\nA 401(k) with a generous company match and vesting\nFully paid parental leave for new parents, with extended leave options\nAdditional benefits (mental health, pet insurance, and other wellness perks)\n20 days of paid time off (PTO) annually\nVia was founded on the guiding principle that we go further when we go together. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in this description, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this or another role. 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