Workday Technical Architect

Job Title: Workday Technical Architect
Job ID: 86579
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia 


What you will be doing:

• Provide executive leadership for enterprise-wide Workday technical architecture strategy, integration patterns, and technical design governance across all technical workstreams
• Establish and enforce technical design standards, configuration governance frameworks, and integration architecture principles across Data Architecture, Integrations, and Reporting teams
• Lead and oversee technical architecture activities across Design and Foundation Tenant Build phases, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards and coordinating across all technical workstreams
• Architect and oversee integration design, security architecture, data architecture, reporting frameworks, and technical conversion strategies
• Lead technical architecture reviews, configuration validation checkpoints, and integration design reviews
• Provide technical leadership for Unit Testing execution, including technical defect analysis, root cause identification, and resolution prioritization
• Provide senior technical architectural guidance to PHSA stakeholders, system integrators, and functional teams
• Lead and manage the Data Architecture & Conversion and provide executive oversight to the technical architecture organization
• Oversee Data Architecture workstream: Define foundational data models, master data management strategy, data governance frameworks, and data migration/conversion strategies
• Oversee Integrations Architecture workstream: Design enterprise integration patterns, API architecture, middleware strategies, real-time and batch integration frameworks, and integration testing approaches
• Oversee Reporting/Dashboards workstream: Define reporting architecture, analytics frameworks, dashboard design standards, and business intelligence strategy for Workday reporting capabilities

• The candidate must have demonstrated experience leading the technical architecture and delivery of a Workday SaaS HCM solution at an enterprise scale.
• They shall possess a master’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related technical field, plus ten (10) years of recent experience in complex HCM/ERP application environments, including at least seven (7) years in a senior technical leadership capacity. Equivalent combinations of education and progressive technical experience will be considered.

• Workday technical architecture, including data model design, security architecture, tenant strategy, and environment management
• End-to-end data conversion strategy, including source-to-target mapping, data transformation, cleansing, reconciliation, validation, and cutover planning
• Enterprise integration architecture, including Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connectors, APIs, middleware platforms, and complex interface ecosystems
• Reporting architecture and analytics strategy, including Workday reporting frameworks, Prism Analytics (if applicable), dashboard design, and data governance controls
• Enterprise data governance, privacy, and security considerations within regulated environments
• Integration and data performance optimization across large, multi-entity implementations
• Technical risk identification, mitigation planning, and issue resolution