Workday Product Architect III - Solutions Center (100% Remote)

Role overview

Set technical direction for complex Workday solutions and reporting across HCM, Payroll, and Finance. This senior individual contributor designs architecture and security standards, reviews high-impact work, and guides analysts and report writers through mentoring and documented practices. The role partners with HR, Finance, information systems, and enterprise analytics stakeholders to keep Workday data reliable, governed, and useful for operational and downstream reporting.

Responsibilities - Define target architecture, design patterns, and security approaches for cross-module solutions; review designs before implementation. - Lead architecture for major deployments, business process changes, and other high-risk initiatives. - Own reporting architecture, including report types, calculated fields, dashboards, data sources, and lifecycle standards. - Govern report inventories and partner on consistent, secure data extracts into enterprise analytics platforms. - Assess the impact of twice-yearly platform releases and recommend adoption plans. - Mentor analysts and report writers, conduct peer reviews, and maintain architecture and data-lineage documentation.

Requirements - Expert knowledge of Workday architecture across at least two of HCM, Payroll, and Finance, including how the modules interact. - Advanced Workday reporting expertise, including custom reports, calculated fields, composite and matrix reports, dashboards, and reporting data sources. - Ability to design reporting security that protects sensitive HR, compensation, and payroll information. - Experience establishing technical standards, reviewing designs, and guiding the work of other specialists without direct supervisory authority. - Strong communication skills for translating technical architecture into recommendations for senior business and technology stakeholders.

Benefits and work setup - Fully remote role; work must be performed from one of the eligible payroll states: WI, AL, AZ, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, TN, TX, or UT. - Listed annual salary range: $116,100–$150,800, depending on qualifications and other job-related factors. - Benefits include health, vision and dental coverage, retirement savings, paid time off and holidays, tuition reimbursement, paid parental leave, employee and family assistance, and other discounts and programs.