Workday Reporting Lead, Data Architect

Jobtailor; Adelphi (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a senior professional to lead Workday reporting architecture, implementing advanced reports, dashboards, and analytics across HCM and Financial domains. You will guide cross-functional teams, ensure data governance, and drive scalable reporting solutions within a higher-education/public-sector consortium context.

The role requires hands-on Workday reporting, experience with Prism Analytics, and strong leadership to deliver complex data projects and secure reporting outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Systems, Analytics, CS, or related field.
• 3+ years leading enterprise reporting and analytics, with Workday experience.
• Experience building dashboards and Prism Analytics datasets/pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and governance of Workday reporting architecture.
• Translate business requirements into scalable reports and analytics.
• Provide technical direction to report developers and analysts.
• Establish RaaS architecture standards and data-delivery approaches.

Skills

Workday Reporting Architecture

Advanced Reporting

Data Governance

Project Leadership

Prism Analytics

REST APIs

Data Modeling

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Information Systems/CS/Analytics

Tools

Prism Analytics

BI Platforms

Middleware

Data Visualization Tools

Job description

• Lead the design, development, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of complex Workday reports, dashboards, and analytics solutions
• Develop advanced Workday reporting solutions using Advanced, Matrix, Composite, nBox, Trending, Transposed, BIRT, dashboards, Discovery Boards, Worksheets, and Prism Analytics
• Translate business requirements into scalable reporting solutions and confirm requirements, priorities, and expected outcomes with stakeholders
• Build executive-level analytics packages and lead projects involving new or significantly enhanced reporting capabilities
• Develop reporting components supporting integrations and modifications, including Report-as-a-Service (RaaS) outputs
• Diagnose and resolve complex reporting, calculated-field, performance, data, and security issues
• Govern the Workday reporting architecture for the MD Connect tenant, including report types, data sources, calculated fields, naming conventions, output formats, security patterns, and lifecycle management
• Architect the reporting data layer, including Prism Analytics datasets, pipelines, transformations, taxonomy, and external data ingestion
• Define data models, business-object hierarchies, field definitions, and cross-module relationships
• Design multi-module reporting solutions for scalability, performance, consistency, security, and maintainability
• Establish RaaS architecture standards for endpoints, authentication, scheduling, and downstream delivery
• Evaluate integration patterns and data-delivery approaches with external analytics platforms
• Maintain standards, documentation, architecture decision records, reusable component libraries, and the report repository
• Conduct architecture reviews and lead remediation efforts
• Lead, develop, and provide technical direction to report developers and analysts; establish priorities, assign work, and monitor delivery
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point for complex reporting, data model, security, performance, and cross-module issues
• Provide technical reviews and quality oversight for report design, development, testing, deployment, and documentation
• Establish team practices promoting consistent development, knowledge sharing, documentation, and effective tool use
• Provide coaching, feedback, development support, and supervisory responsibilities in accordance with USMO and USM requirements
• Partner with leadership, consortium institutions, and stakeholders on reporting strategy, roadmaps, priorities, and implementation plans
• Advise technical and nontechnical stakeholders on reporting best practices, solution options, data governance, and Workday analytics
• Lead cross-functional data quality initiatives involving human resources, payroll, finance, student, and other institutional data
• Evaluate new Workday reporting and analytics features and recommend improvements
• Advance readiness for emerging Workday capabilities, including artificial intelligence and future data-platform technologies

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree; related experience may be substituted for the education requirement on a year-for-year basis, with one year of full-time experience equivalent to 30 college credits
• Three (3) years of progressively responsible experience developing, supporting, or governing enterprise reporting and analytics solutions, including hands-on Workday reporting experience in a post-production environment
• Experience developing complex reports across Workday Human Capital Management and Financial Management using Advanced, Matrix, and Composite reports and multi-layer calculated fields
• Experience designing and delivering Workday dashboards or other analytics solutions and building Prism Analytics datasets or pipelines
• Experience leading reporting projects or workstreams and providing technical direction, quality review, or delivery oversight to other developers or analysts
• Advanced knowledge of Workday reporting architecture, business objects, data sources, calculated fields, report security, and report lifecycle management
• Knowledge of data architecture and governance principles, including data modeling, taxonomy, quality, security, integration, and reusable design standards
• Ability to translate complex business and regulatory requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable reports, dashboards, and analytics solutions
• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex reporting, data, performance, and security issues across multiple Workday functional areas
• Ability to establish technical standards, evaluate design options, review work products, and guide developers and analysts in consistent development practices
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and lead projects from requirements gathering through design, testing, deployment, documentation, and ongoing support
• Ability to advise executive, functional, and technical stakeholders and communicate complex information clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences
• Knowledge of Report-as-a-Service (RaaS), REST APIs, and data-delivery methods used to support integrations, middleware, or external business intelligence platforms
• Preferred: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Systems, Business Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field
• Preferred experience with Workday reporting leadership or architecture, higher education/public-sector/consortium environments, Prism Analytics with external data, external BI/data warehouse/middleware/cloud platforms, additional Workday functional areas, and staff supervision
• Preferred knowledge of Workday Extend, Workday Data Cloud, emerging Workday analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities, and business intelligence/data visualization/data-engineering tools

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Workday reporting architecture, including advanced reporting solutions, data governance, and analytics capabilities. Proven ability to lead projects, manage technical direction, and translate complex business requirements into scalable reporting solutions.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Workday Reporting Architecture
• Advanced Reporting Solutions
• Data Governance Principles
• Project Leadership
• Prism Analytics

Hard Skills

• Workday Reporting
• Advanced Reports
• Matrix Reports
• Composite Reports
• Calculated Fields
• Dashboards
• Data Modeling
• Report-as-a-Service (RaaS)
• Data Architecture
• Integration Patterns

Soft Skills

• Technical Direction
• Communication
• Problem-Solving
• Coaching
• Collaboration

Industry Keywords

• Higher Education
• Public Sector
• Data Quality Initiatives
• Data Security
• Emerging Workday Capabilities

Tools & Technologies

• Prism Analytics
• REST APIs
• Business Intelligence Platforms
• Data Visualization Tools
• Middleware