Solution Architect -workday

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Proven experience (5yrs +) designing and delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions across platforms, products, or domains.
• Minimum 8 years' experience working in technology.
• Appropriate degree or relevant professional qualifications.
• Experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches.
• Deep understanding of solution architecture principles, frameworks (e.g. TOGAF), and best practices.
• Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical peers and stakeholders alike.
• Role Dependant skills & knowledge (e.g. app/data/tech/platform)
• Workday Learning Architecture o Lead the end-to-end architecture for the Workday Learning platform, including alignment of learning capabilities, colleague experience and enterprise architecture standards. o Define and govern learning-related data architecture, ensuring foundational data dependencies, ownership models and system-of-record principles are clearly established. o Design authentication and access approaches supporting Workday SSO, MFA and secure colleague access across all user populations. o Establish architecture patterns for learning access on shared retail devices, kiosks and frontline colleague technology. o Assess and govern integration impacts across HR, identity, employee experience and third-party learning ecosystems. o Define the target-state user journey across Workday Learning and MY P&C, ensuring a seamless and consistent colleague experience. o Lead archiving, retention and decommissioning architecture activities for legacy learning platforms and data repositories.
• HR & Colleague Experience Transformation o Define architecture roadmaps and solution direction for strategic colleague-facing capabilities, including Workday Learning, Colleague Discount and broader Workday transformation initiatives. o Drive capability assessments, KDDs and roadmap development to support future-state colleague experience platforms. o Ensure alignment between colleague services, HR technology strategy and enterprise architecture principles.
• Enterprise Workday Architecture o Own and maintain architectural blueprints supporting Workday Evolve and regional deployments, including Workday Germany. o Define solution architecture standards, integration principles and target-state designs across the Workday ecosystem. o Assess impacts of new capabilities, regulatory requirements and localisation needs on the overall Workday architecture landscape. o Support architectural decision making across multiple concurrent Workday transformation workstreams.
• Integration, Identity & Platform Strategy o Define integration patterns between Workday, identity platforms, employee experience platforms and wider enterprise services. o Establish secure identity and access management approaches, including authentication, provisioning, SSO and MFA adoption.