Workday Enterprise Architect: HCM & Financials

Fortra; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k), HSA, and FSA enrollment

Flexible PTO

Tuition and personal enrichment reimb.

ID Theft Protection Program

Job summary

Fortra is seeking an experienced Workday Architect to lead the design, governance, and optimization of our Workday ecosystem across HCM and Financials. You will set platform guardrails, drive secure integrations, and mentor engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes.

You will partner with HR, Finance, IT, Security, and Data/Analytics stakeholders to ensure Workday remains secure, scalable, and resilient. This remote-friendly role emphasizes architecture roadmaps and collaboration.

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).
• Experience with Workday release management, tenant strategy, and platform governance.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and guide cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• Typically requires five or more years of progressive experience in enterprise applications, architecture, or platform engineering roles, including Workday.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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, 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.
• 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 and ensure integrations remain supportable through releases.
• Define data governance patterns for Workday extracts/feeds, including secure handling of sensitive data and alignment with analytics standards.
• Own or co-own Workday tenant strategy, migration approach, and controls for configuration promotion to production.
• Lead bi-annual Workday release impact assessments and coordinate technical readiness.
• Establish change governance for Workday platform changes, including documentation, approvals, and handoff.
• Serve as the technical authority for Workday platform decisions; provide architectural oversight across projects.
• Drive platform optimization efforts and evaluate new Workday features and roadmap enhancements.
• Partner with HR, Finance, IT, and cross-functional leaders to align priorities and communicate trade-offs and risks.
• Guide and mentor Workday engineers, administrators, and analysts; promote engineering practices and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with external partners and vendors to ensure high-quality delivery and adherence to standards.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Architectural governance

Problem-solving

Mentoring

Strategic thinking

Security awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Workday Studio

Core Connectors

EIB

PECi

Job description

Fortra is seeking an experienced Workday Architect to lead the design, governance, and optimization of our Workday ecosystem across HCM and Financials. You will set platform guardrails, drive secure integrations, and mentor engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes.

You will partner with HR, Finance, IT, Security, and Data/Analytics stakeholders to ensure Workday remains secure, scalable, and resilient. This remote-friendly role emphasizes architecture roadmaps and collaboration.