Lead Workday Technical Architect

Groundswell; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 159,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401K match (4%)

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Groundswell is seeking a Workday Technical Architect to provide technical leadership for a complex Workday deployment supporting an Intelligence Community customer. You will oversee Workday technical workstreams, ensure alignment with architecture and standards, and coordinate with a broad set of stakeholders across multiple programs.

The ideal candidate combines deep Workday technical expertise with enterprise technology leadership, able to translate dependencies into clear risks and actions

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• Over 10 years in enterprise technology or ERP implementations.
• At least 5 years of Workday implementation experience with technical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across Workday technical workstreams (Integration, Data Conversion, Security, environments, testing).
• Coordinate plans, milestones, dependencies, and interfaces with other teams.
• Translate complex technical dependencies into clear impacts for stakeholders.
• Lead cross-workstream technical discussions and issue resolution.
• Support governance, readiness reviews, and deployment readiness activities.

Skills

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Strong communication

Workday architecture

Systems integration

Security awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Workday

APIs

ETL / Data conversion

Security tooling

Job description

Who Are We?

Groundswell is a premier technology integrator and solution provider, resolutely committed to solving the most complex challenges facing federal agencies today. Our name, Groundswell, represents our commitment to be an unstoppable, seismic change in government. Ours is a small company culture with big company reach and results. Are you ready to be audacious, be bold and drive change at a rapid pace? Join us, where we'll make a greater impact together.

What You’ll do:

Workday Technical Architect

Groundswell is seeking a highly skilled Workday Technical Architect to provide technical delivery leadership for a complex Workday implementation supporting an Intelligence Community customer. This individual will oversee and coordinate the technical workstreams supporting the Workday deployment, ensuring technical activities, dependencies, and deliverables remain aligned across the implementation.

The Workday Technical Lead will work closely with the Workday Delivery Lead, Solution Architect, Integration Lead, Data Conversion Lead, Security team, customer CIO organization, OEM technical teams, and other program stakeholders. This individual will maintain visibility into the technical plans, milestones, and deliverables across concurrent, related contracts to assess how dependencies, decisions, or delays may impact contract execution.

The ideal candidate will combine deep Workday technical expertise, enterprise technology experience, and strong technical leadership skills with the ability to operate across multiple organizations and programs. This individual must be able to translate complex technical dependencies into clear impacts, risks, and decisions for both technical and program leadership.

Technical Delivery Leadership

• Provide technical leadership and oversight across Workday technical workstreams, including Integration, Data Conversion, Security, environments, testing, and other technical delivery activities.
• Ensure technical workstreams have clearly defined requirements, dependencies, milestones, and interfaces with other implementation teams.
• Coordinate technical plans, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables across technical workstreams to support successful Workday deployment.
• Partner with the Solution Architect to ensure technical implementation remains aligned with the approved solution architecture and technical standards.
• Partner with the Workday Delivery Lead to ensure technical activities remain aligned with the Workday Implementation Methodology and overall deployment schedule.
• Lead cross-workstream technical discussions and drive resolution of issues that span multiple technical teams.
• Ensure technical teams and subcontractor resources remain aligned with implementation priorities and technical standards.
• Identify technical risks, issues, and dependencies and ensure appropriate mitigation, ownership, and escalation.

Customer CIO & Technical Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as a key technical interface with the customer's CIO organization and other enterprise technology stakeholders.
• Build strong working relationships with customer architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, integration, data, and other technical organizations.
• Coordinate technical requirements, decisions, dependencies, and readiness activities with customer stakeholders.
• Translate Workday and implementation requirements into clear technical impacts and actions for customer technology teams.
• Communicate technical risks, decisions, and dependencies clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Concurrent Contract Technical Coordination

• Maintain visibility into ATO technical plans, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and decisions that may affect contract execution.
• Understand the technical deliverables and responsibilities across both programs and identify dependencies between the two efforts.
• Coordinate with ATO technical teams, vendor technical teams, and program leadership to understand progress and identify potential impacts to contract technical activities.
• Assess the downstream impact of ATO delays, changes, or technical decisions on contract milestones, workstreams, testing, and deployment readiness.
• Work with the Workday Delivery Lead and Program Manager to communicate and manage technical dependencies that may affect overall program commitments.
• Support development of mitigation and recovery strategies when external technical dependencies affect contract execution.

Technical Governance & Readiness

• Support technical design reviews, readiness reviews, and implementation checkpoints.
• Ensure technical deliverables and implementation artifacts meet established quality, architecture, security, and customer requirements.
• Coordinate technical dependencies associated with environments, access, security, interfaces, data, testing, and deployment.
• Provide technical status, risks, dependencies, and readiness assessments to the Workday Delivery Lead and Program Manager.
• Support technical planning for implementation milestones, testing cycles, cutover, deployment, and operational transition.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience supporting enterprise technology, ERP, HCM, or complex system implementations.
• 5+ years of relevant Workday implementation experience with significant technical delivery responsibilities.
• Experience serving as a Technical Lead, Technical Architect, or comparable technical leadership role on multiple HCM implementations and at least one Workday implementation.
• Broad understanding of Workday technical architecture and implementation, including integrations, data conversion, security, environments, reporting, APIs, and deployment activities.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple technical workstreams within a large-scale enterprise implementation.
• Experience identifying and managing complex technical dependencies across systems, teams, organizations, and implementation schedules.
• Experience working with enterprise CIO, IT, architecture, infrastructure, and cybersecurity organizations.
• Experience coordinating technical activities and dependencies with software vendors, OEMs, or other external technology partners.
• Demonstrated ability to understand technical scope, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies across interconnected programs or projects.
• Experience supporting technical planning, testing, deployment readiness, and production transition activities.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams consisting of employees, consultants, and/or subcontractor resources.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integration, data, security, and architecture principles.
• Strong technical problem-solving, analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical issues and dependencies into clear program impacts, risks, decisions, and recommended actions.
• U.S. Citizenship required per contract requirements.
• Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain the government security clearance and access required for the role, up to and including Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI access and Counter Intelligence (CI) polygraph. Employment is contingent upon the ability to obtain and maintain the required clearance and access.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current Workday technical certification(s).
• Experience supporting Federal government, Department of Defense (DoD), and/or Intelligence Community (IC) Workday implementations.
• Experience providing technical leadership for large-scale Workday HCM implementations involving multiple technical workstreams.
• Experience working with customer CIO organizations in highly secure Federal environments.
• Experience coordinating dependencies between concurrent, related programs.
• Experience supporting implementations across multiple secure customer environments.
• Familiarity with Federal enterprise architecture, interoperability, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Experience supporting Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Authority to Operate (ATO) activities.
• Familiarity with NIST security controls and Federal cybersecurity requirements.
• Experience supporting complex implementation schedules with significant external technical dependencies.

Work Location & Travel Requirements

• Must be local to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area (or willing to relocate) and willing to work onsite within customer SCIF environments 3-4 days per week.
• Approximately 5% travel within the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region is required.

Skills:

Certification:

Why You’ll Never Want to Leave:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• Flexible Spending Account
• 4% 401K Match (immediate vesting)
• Paid Time Off
• Tuition reimbursement, certification programs, and professional development
• Flexible work schedule
• On-site gym and childcare option

The salary range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Groundswell, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:
$159,000.00 - $254,872.00

NOTE: Groundswell does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Groundswell, and Groundswell will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.

Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Additional Resources:

• EO 13496 Notification of Employee Rights under NLRA
• Know your rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal

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