Workday Technical Lead and Enterprise Architect (Onsite)

Focus on WD; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 234,000; Full time

Job summary

Focus on WD is seeking a Workday Technical Lead to own the technical strategy for a large Workday platform within the People Technology ecosystem in Culver City. The role involves security, integrations, data architecture, governance and platform optimization, partnering with HR, Payroll, Finance and IT teams.

You will lead architecture reviews, define roadmaps, ensure SOX and GDPR compliance, and manage production support and incident response. On-site presence 3–4 days per week is required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of enterprise technology experience.
• 7+ years hands-on Workday technical experience.
• Deep expertise across Workday Security and Integrations.
• Hands-on experience with Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, PECI, PICOF and APIs.
• Strong understanding of Workday architecture, business processes and data architecture.
• Experience integrating Workday with third-party HR and enterprise platforms.
• Experience owning architecture decisions, production support and technical roadmaps.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills.
• Ability to work on-site in Culver City 3 to 4 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical health, stability, security and scalability of Workday.
• Define the roadmap across Security, Integrations, data and technical debt.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design sessions and solution approvals.
• Establish integration standards, reusable frameworks and security governance.
• Oversee production support, SLAs, monitoring, incident management and root cause analysis.
• Govern AMS teams, developers, offshore resources and external vendors.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, integration inventories and data flows.
• Ensure alignment with SOX, GDPR, audit and enterprise security requirements.

Skills

Workday Security

Workday Integrations

Studio

EIB

Core Connectors

PECI

PICOF

APIs

SOX compliance

GDPR compliance

Stakeholder management

Job description

Focus on WD is seeking a Workday Technical Lead to own the technical strategy for a large Workday platform within the People Technology ecosystem in Culver City. The role involves security, integrations, data architecture, governance and platform optimization, partnering with HR, Payroll, Finance and IT teams.

You will lead architecture reviews, define roadmaps, ensure SOX and GDPR compliance, and manage production support and incident response. On-site presence 3–4 days per week is required.