Workday Product Architect III - Solutions Center (100% Remote)

Wisconsin, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Wisconsin, Inc. is seeking a senior Workday Reporting and Data Analytics Architect to lead cross-module Workday solutions across HCM, Payroll, and Finance.

The role defines architecture, security design, and reporting standards, partnering with solution center leadership and enterprise BI to ensure governance and trusted analytics. The position is 100% remote, with work performed from one of MCW's payroll states.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of Workday architecture across at least two of HCM, Payroll, and Finance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as design authority for complex, cross-module Workday solutions, reviewing and approving designs before build.
• Define target-state Workday architecture across HCM, Payroll, and Finance, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance.
• Lead architecture for high-risk, high-visibility initiatives, including new module deployments and major business process redesigns.
• Establish architectural standards, design patterns, and naming conventions for Workday configuration, integrations, and reporting.
• Determine security models for complex reporting and advise on adoption strategies for semi-annual releases.
• Own the architecture of Workday reporting, including reports, calculated fields, dashboards, and Prism Analytics data sources.

Skills

Workday architecture

Workday reporting

Security modeling

Cross-module design

Data governance

Mentoring capability

Strategy communication

Tools

Workday EIB

Core Connectors

Workday Studio

Web services

Job description

Summary

The Workday Reporting and Data Analytics Architect is MCW's senior individual-contributor architect for the Workday platform. The role serves as design authority for complex, cross-module Workday solutions spanning HCM, Payroll, and Finance, and owns the architecture, security design, and report configuration standards for Workday reporting and data delivery.

The Architect sets the technical direction that other analysts and report writers build within. The role does not supervise staff, but it is accountable for the quality and consistency of Workday reporting work through formal mentoring, design review, and published standards.

The Architect partners with Workday Solution Center leadership, Enterprise BI Architecture, IS, HR, Finance, and senior institutional stakeholders. The role ensures Workday remains a trusted, well-governed system of record and a reliable source for downstream enterprise analytics.

This position is 100% remote. All remote work must be performed within one of the MCW registered payroll states, which currently includes: WI, AL, AZ, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, TN, TX, and UT.

Primary Responsibilities

Architecture Leadership & Design Authority

• Serve as design authority for complex, cross-module Workday solutions, reviewing and approving designs before build.
• Define and maintain the target-state Workday architecture across HCM, Payroll, and Finance, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance.
• Lead architecture for the highest-risk and highest-visibility initiatives, including new module deployments, major business process redesigns, and organizational changes.
• Establish architectural standards, design patterns, and naming conventions applied across Workday configuration, integrations, and reporting.
• Determine security models to be used for complex reporting
• Anticipate the downstream impact of Workday semi-annual releases and recommend adoption strategy and sequencing.

Workday Reporting & Data Architecture

• Own the architecture of Workday reporting, including custom reports, calculated fields, composite and matrix reports, dashboards, and Prism Analytics data sources.
• Define reporting standards for report design, data source selection, calculated field reuse, performance, and report lifecycle management.
• Govern the Workday report inventory, retiring duplicate or obsolete reports and consolidating overlapping calculated fields.
• Partner with Enterprise BI Architecture to design governed data extracts from Workday into the enterprise data platform, ensuring consistent business definitions across operational and enterprise reporting.
• Ensure reporting security aligns with Workday domain and role-based security, protecting sensitive HR, compensation, and payroll data.

Mentoring & Technical Leadership (Non-Supervisory)

• Mentor Workday report writers and analysts on report design, calculated fields, data sources, and security, building team capability and independence.
• Conduct design and peer reviews of reports, configuration, and integrations, providing documented feedback and approving work against standards.
• Develop training materials, reference guides, and reusable templates that raise baseline quality across the reporting team.
• Provide technical direction on work prioritization and approach in coordination with the team's manager, without holding direct supervisory authority.

Strategy & Stakeholder Partnership

• Advise Workday Solution Center leadership on platform roadmap within area of expertise technical debt, and investment priorities.
• Translate complex technical architecture into clear options and recommendations for senior HR, Finance, and IS leaders.
• Evaluate Workday product direction, emerging capabilities, and industry practices, recommending adoption where they create institutional value.
• Maintain enterprise-level documentation of Workday architecture, integration designs, reporting standards, and data lineage.

Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge - Skills - Abilities

• Expert knowledge of Workday architecture across at least two of HCM, Payroll, and Finance, with working knowledge of how the modules interact.
• Advanced expertise in Workday reporting: custom report types, calculated fields, report data sources, composite and matrix reports, dashboards, and report performance tuning.
• Working knowledge of Workday Prism Analytics, Workday Extend, and Workday integration tools (EIB, Core Connectors, Workday Studio, web services).
• Expert knowledge of Workday security models, including domain and business process security, role-based access, and segregation of duties.
• Understanding of enterprise data concepts, including data governance, lineage, master data, and how operational system data feeds enterprise analytics.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical standards and hold others' work to them through design review.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop technical staff without direct supervisory authority.
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