Solution Architect -Workday

Vallum Associates; Reading; On-site; GBP 117,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Vallum Associates seeks an experienced Workday Architect to lead the end-to-end architecture for the Workday Learning platform, aligning learning capabilities with enterprise standards and colleague experience. You will define data architecture, authentication and access approaches (SSO, MFA), and govern integrations across HR, identity and third‑party learning ecosystems.

The role covers regional deployments (including Germany), roadmap definition, and archiving/retention for legacy platforms,

Qualifications

• Proven experience (5yrs +) designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions across platforms, products, or domains.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience working in technology.
• Appropriate degree or relevant professional qualifications.
• Experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches.
• Deep understanding of solution architecture principles, frameworks (e.g. TOGAF), and best practices.
• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical peers and stakeholders alike.
• Role Dependant skills & knowledge (e.g. app/data/tech/platform)
• Workday Learning Architecture responsibilities and domain knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end architecture for the Workday Learning platform, including alignment of learning capabilities, colleague experience and enterprise architecture standards.
• Define and govern learning-related data architecture, ensuring foundational data dependencies, ownership models and system-of-record principles are clearly established.
• Design authentication and access approaches supporting Workday SSO, MFA and secure colleague access across all user populations.
• Establish architecture patterns for learning access on shared retail devices, kiosks and frontline colleague technology.
• Assess and govern integration impacts across HR, identity, employee experience and third-party learning ecosystems.
• Define the target-state user journey across Workday Learning and MY P&C, ensuring a seamless and consistent colleague experience.
• Lead archiving, retention and decommissioning architecture activities for legacy learning platforms and data repositories.
• Define architecture roadmaps and solution direction for strategic colleague-facing capabilities, including Workday Learning, Colleague Discount and broader Workday transformation initiatives.
• Drive capability assessments, KDDs and roadmap development to support future-state colleague experience platforms.
• Ensure alignment between colleague services, HR technology strategy and enterprise architecture principles.
• Own and maintain architectural blueprints supporting Workday Evolve and regional deployments, including Workday Germany.
• Define solution architecture standards, integration principles and target-state designs across the Workday ecosystem.
• Assess impacts of new capabilities, regulatory requirements and localisation needs on the overall Workday architecture landscape.
• Support architectural decision making across multiple concurrent Workday transformation workstreams.
• Define integration patterns between Workday, identity platforms, employee experience platforms and wider enterprise services.
• Establish secure identity and access management approaches, including authentication, provisioning, SSO and MFA adoption.

Job description

• Proven experience (5yrs +) designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions across platforms, products, or domains.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience working in technology.
• Appropriate degree or relevant professional qualifications.
• Experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches.
• Deep understanding of solution architecture principles, frameworks (e.g. TOGAF), and best practices.
• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical peers and stakeholders alike.
• Role Dependant skills & knowledge (e.g. app/data/tech/platform)
• Workday Learning Architecture
  • Lead the end-to-end architecture for the Workday Learning platform, including alignment of learning capabilities, colleague experience and enterprise architecture standards.
  • Define and govern learning-related data architecture, ensuring foundational data dependencies, ownership models and system-of-record principles are clearly established.
  • Design authentication and access approaches supporting Workday SSO, MFA and secure colleague access across all user populations.
  • Establish architecture patterns for learning access on shared retail devices, kiosks and frontline colleague technology.
  • Assess and govern integration impacts across HR, identity, employee experience and third-party learning ecosystems.
  • Define the target-state user journey across Workday Learning and MY P&C, ensuring a seamless and consistent colleague experience.
  • Lead archiving, retention and decommissioning architecture activities for legacy learning platforms and data repositories.
• HR & Colleague Experience Transformation
  • Define architecture roadmaps and solution direction for strategic colleague-facing capabilities, including Workday Learning, Colleague Discount and broader Workday transformation initiatives.
  • Drive capability assessments, KDDs and roadmap development to support future-state colleague experience platforms.
  • Ensure alignment between colleague services, HR technology strategy and enterprise architecture principles.
• Enterprise Workday Architecture
  • Own and maintain architectural blueprints supporting Workday Evolve and regional deployments, including Workday Germany.
  • Define solution architecture standards, integration principles and target-state designs across the Workday ecosystem.
  • Assess impacts of new capabilities, regulatory requirements and localisation needs on the overall Workday architecture landscape.
  • Support architectural decision making across multiple concurrent Workday transformation workstreams.
• Integration, Identity & Platform Strategy
  • Define integration patterns between Workday, identity platforms, employee experience platforms and wider enterprise services.
  • Establish secure identity and access management approaches, including authentication, provisioning, SSO and MFA adoption.