Senior Workday Platform Architect: Scale & Governance

Remix; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Dental & Vision

401(k) match

Parental leave

Mental health support

Pet insurance

Wellness perks

Paid time off

Job summary

Via is seeking a Senior Workday Platform Architect to lead and scale our Workday ecosystem supporting a global workforce. You’ll own configuration, security, reporting, and integrations, partnering with People, Payroll, Finance, and IT teams to deliver a world-class HR platform.

You’ll drive governance, architecture, and release management, balancing immediate needs with long-term platform health and employee experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on Workday experience in a large, global organization.
• Deep experience with Core HCM and multiple other Workday modules (Compensation, Recruiting, Benefits, Absence, Time Tracking, Payroll).
• Ability to assess cross-module impact on security, reporting, and integrations.
• Proven governance, architecture, process, or configuration improvements.
• Strong knowledge of Workday security, data management, and integrations concepts.
• Knowledge of HR operations, payroll compliance, and controls over employee data.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Via’s senior Workday platform expert, owning configuration, security, business processes, reporting, integrations, data quality, and system administration.
• Define scalable Workday architecture and operating model, including governance, documentation, change management, testing standards, and release processes.
• Evaluate current configurations and processes, identify gaps or technical debt, and recommend improvements.
• Lead design, configuration, testing, and deployment across Core HCM, Compensation, Recruiting, Benefits, Absence, Time Tracking, Performance, Talent, and Payroll.
• Ensure that Workday business processes are efficient, compliant, and scalable to Via's growth.
• Design, build, and maintain Workday reports, dashboards, calculated fields, and analytics.
• Oversee Workday integrations with payroll, benefits, identity management, finance, recruiting, and other enterprise systems; collaborate with partners and vendors.
• Establish strong security and access-management practices, including role-based access, segregation of duties, periodic reviews, and audit readiness.
• Lead Workday release planning by evaluating new functionality, coordinating testing, documenting changes, and communicating recommendations to stakeholders.
• Maintain data integrity through proactive monitoring, recurring audits, reconciliation processes, and root-cause analysis of issues.
• Provide clear guidance and hands-on support to People team members, managers, employees, and business leaders.
• Create and maintain documentation for configurations, business processes, integrations, reports, controls, and procedures.
• Build relationships with Workday and implementation partners while ensuring internal ownership of the platform.
• Stay current on Workday capabilities and releases to determine meaningful improvements.

Skills

Workday expertise

Platform architecture

Governance

Integrations

Reporting

Security

Data quality

Stakeholder management

HR/payroll knowledge

Tools

Workday Studio

EIB

Core Connectors

APIs

Workday Extend

Job description

Via is seeking a Senior Workday Platform Architect to lead and scale our Workday ecosystem supporting a global workforce. You’ll own configuration, security, reporting, and integrations, partnering with People, Payroll, Finance, and IT teams to deliver a world-class HR platform.

You’ll drive governance, architecture, and release management, balancing immediate needs with long-term platform health and employee experience.