Workday Principal Solution Architect

Sentara Health; Virginia; Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

401k/403B with employer match

Paid Time Off

Tuition Assistance

Job summary

Sentara Health in Norfolk, VA seeks a Workday Central Sustain Principal Solution Architect to lead architecture and governance for a portfolio of Workday solutions. You will partner with HR/Finance leaders and IT to translate business needs into scalable, secure technical designs and ensure high-quality releases across the platform.

The role requires-depth Workday knowledge, strong leadership, and experience guiding data strategy, security design, and reporting governance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience with a degree.
• Experience delivering Workday core areas (FIN, SCM, HCM).
• Ability to lead design decisions, manage trade-offs and influence stakeholders.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• End-to-end lifecycle experience: discovery, design, configure, test, deploy.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery workshops and translate requirements into designs and delivery plans.
• Create and govern design artifacts including security, data/worktags and reporting strategy.
• Establish configuration standards and guardrails for tenant configuration.
• Guide tenant configuration: business processes, security roles and org structures.
• Drive SIT/UAT testing, defect triage and release readiness.

Skills

Solution architecture

Stakeholder collaboration

Requirements gathering

Design leadership

Test planning

Education

Bachelor's degree (Preferred)

Experience in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree - 10+ years

Tools

Workday Studio

EIB

Core Connectors

Prism Analytics

Job description

City/State Norfolk, VA Work Shift First (Days) Overview: Overview The Workday Central Sustain Principal Solution Architect proactively and holistically leads and supports EA activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. They understand the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value streams, and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis, and design tasks related to supporting the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. They create deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions — including systems (applications, processes, information, and technology), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes. The Workday Central Sustain Principal Solution Architect partners with business leads and stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, secure, supportable technical solutions across the Workday ecosystem. This role must have in depth understanding of current and upcoming Workday capabilities, as well as understand impacts that changes/enhancements will have on existing configuration, business processes, and data elements across the platform. This role partners with HR/Finance leaders, IT, security, and integration/reporting teams to ensure a cohesive tenant design, high-quality releases, and measurable business outcomes.

Key responsibilities

Works closely with Workday Finance, Supply Chain and HR business leads to connect business problems and requirements to Workday technical capabilities. Leads discovery workshops; capture requirements, process maps, and design decisions (future state, controls, and impacts). Translates requirements into technical designs, estimates, and delivery plans. Creates and governs functional design artifacts (solution design, BP design, security design, data/worktags strategy, reporting strategy, test strategy). Establishes, manages and maintains configuration standards and guardrails (naming conventions, shared objects, condition rules, calculated fields, dependencies). Guides tenant configuration approach: business processes, security roles, org structures, eligibility rules, compensation frameworks, and validations. Drives test planning and execution (SIT/UAT), defect triage, and readiness; ensure traceability from requirement → design → test. Creates standards for reporting solution and oversee reporting governance. Work with functional areas to guide inbound/outbound data strategy (loads, conversions, incremental updates, validation).

Education

• Bachelor's Degree (Preferred)
• Experience in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree - 10+ years of relevant experience without a degree

Certification/Licensure

• Workday Pro certification/s (Preferred)

Experience Required qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience with a degree
• Experience in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree. 10+ years of relevant experience without a degree
• Proven delivery leadership in a Workday core area (FIN, SCM, HCM).
• Experience leading technical design, estimates, and execution across multiple workstreams.
• Strong troubleshooting skills (integration failures, data issues, security access, performance).
• Demonstrated ability to lead functional design decisions, manage trade-offs, and influence stakeholders.
• Experience with end-to-end application lifecycle management: discovery, design, configure, test, deploy.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with data conversion at scale and complex cutovers.
• Exposure to Prism Analytics, Extend, Payroll interfaces, Benefits/Finance integrations, or IAM (SSO).
• Exposure to integrations (EIB, Core Connectors, Studio), reporting (advanced reports, calc fields), and/or Prism.
• Functional architecture and process design (fit-to-standard mindset).

Compensation

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay range for full-time employment is $153,670.40 - $228,009.60 annually. Additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call pay, shift premiums, extra-shift incentives, or bonus opportunities. Compensation within the range may vary based on qualifications, experience, location, market conditions, and business needs. Note: If an annual salary is posted, it is based on a full-time colleague working 2,080 hours annually.

Sentara offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; 401(k)/403(b) with employer match; paid time off (vacation, sick time, and holidays); paid parental and military leave; educational assistance or student loan repayment; and voluntary benefits.

Benefits

• Caring For Your Family and Your Career
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Resources Plan
• Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves. In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states: Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Sentara Health is a Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina based not-for-profit integrated healthcare provider that has been in business for over 131 years. Offering hundreds of sites of care including 12 hospitals, PACE, home health, hospice, medical groups, imaging services, therapy, outpatient surgery centers, and an 858,000 member health plan.

The people of the communities that we serve have nominated Sentara “Employer of Choice” for over ten years.

U.S. News and World Report has recognized Sentara as having the Best Hospitals for 15+ years.

Sentara offers professional development and a continued employment philosophy!