Enterprise Architect, Workday

Fortra Arabia; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortra seeks an experienced Workday Architect to lead architecture, governance, and optimization across HCM and Financials. You will partner with HR, Finance, IT, Security, and Data teams to ensure a secure, scalable Workday system of record and to guide engineers and administrators in delivering high-quality outcomes.

The role focuses on setting platform guardrails, integration patterns, and data governance, while driving release governance, environment strategy, and stakeholder collaboration

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on Workday experience with HCM and Financials
• Proven architecture experience in complex enterprise environments
• Deep understanding of Workday security and integration technologies

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Workday architecture across HCM and Financials
• Define secure integration patterns and governance
• Oversee data strategy and data governance for Workday extracts/feeds
• Own tenant strategy and release governance for Workday environments
• Mentor engineers and analysts on architecture best practices
• Collaborate with HR, Finance, IT, Security and Data/Analytics teams

Skills

7+ years Workday experience

HCM & Financials expertise

Security architecture

Workday integrations

Stakeholder engagement

Workday Studio

EIB/Core Connectors

PECi/Studio

Tools

Workday Studio

EIB/Core Connectors

PECi/Studio

Job description

Whether you're an experienced professional or just getting started, your contributions matter at Fortra. If you're passionate about tackling meaningful challenges alongside talented team members committed to helping each other succeed, all while having lots of fun, we want to hear from you. We offer competitive benefits and salaries, personal and professional development opportunities, flexibility, and much more!

While our company operates remotely, our current hiring strategy is focused on building talent communities in Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Eden Prairie, and the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state area.

We are seeking an experienced Workday Architect with deep expertise across Workday HCM and Workday Financials to lead the design, governance, and optimization of our Workday ecosystem. This role operates at the intersection of technology strategy, enterprise architecture, and delivery leadership-partnering with HR, Finance, IT, Security, and Data/Analytics stakeholders to ensure Workday remains a secure, scalable, and resilient system of record. The Workday Architect sets platform guardrails, defines secure integration and data patterns, and guides engineers and administrators to deliver high-quality outcomes.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Solution Architecture & Design

Lead end-to-end architecture and solution design across Workday HCM and Financials, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and business strategy.

Translate complex business requirements into scalable Workday designs (configuration, business processes, reporting approach, and integration patterns).

Define and maintain architecture roadmaps, reference architectures, and design patterns that enable consistent delivery and reduce technical debt.

Security & Identity Architecture

Define and govern Workday security architecture, including role frameworks, domain/business process security, and least-privilege access models.

Partner with IAM and Security teams to ensure SSO, identity lifecycle (joiner/mover/leaver), and access reviews are correctly integrated and auditable.

Establish and enforce segregation-of-duties (SoD) principles and controls; support audit evidence and remediation activities related to Workday access and process controls.

Integration & Data Strategy

Architect and oversee integrations and data flows between Workday and connected enterprise platforms (e.g., IAM, payroll, finance, CRM, ITSM, data warehouse).

Set standards for integration reliability (monitoring, error handling, reconciliation, and recovery) and ensure integrations remain supportable through releases.

Define data governance patterns for Workday extracts/feeds, including secure handling of sensitive data (PII/financial data) and alignment with enterprise analytics standards.

Release, Environment & Change Governance

Own or co-own Workday tenant strategy (prod/sandbox/preview), migration approach, and controls for configuration promotion to production.

Lead bi-annual Workday release impact assessments and coordinate technical readiness (regression/integration testing strategy, cutover validation, and stabilization).

Establish change governance for Workday platform changes, including standards for documentation, approvals, and operational handoff.

Platform Leadership & Optimization

Serve as the technical authority for Workday platform decisions; provide architectural oversight across projects, enhancements, and incident/problem remediation.

Drive platform optimization efforts (performance, configuration rationalization, data quality, and reliability improvements).

Evaluate new Workday features, modules, and capabilities; recommend adoption strategies and roadmap enhancements based on business value and risk.

Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery Leadership

Partner with HR, Finance, IT, and cross-functional leaders to align priorities, scope solutions, and communicate trade-offs and risks.

Guide and mentor Workday engineers, administrators, and analysts; promote consistent engineering practices, testing discipline, and knowledge sharing.

Collaborate with external partners and vendors to ensure high-quality delivery and adherence to architecture and security standards.

Scope / Boundaries

This role provides architectural leadership and governance; day-to-day administration, provisioning, and routine operational requests are handled by Workday Administrators and IAM Operations.

Business process ownership and policy decisions remain with HR and Finance Product Owners; the architect ensures designs are implementable, secure, and supportable.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of hands-on Workday experience with strong expertise in both HCM and Financials.
• Proven experience architecting Workday solutions in complex enterprise environments, including security, business processes, integrations, and reporting patterns.
• Deep understanding of Workday security model, business process framework, and integration technologies (e.g., EIB, Core Connectors, Studio, PECI).
• Exp