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

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.
• Ability to lead through influence across HR, Finance, IS, and BI teams with competing priorities.
• Ability to present architectural options, risks, and trade-offs clearly to senior leaders.
• Sound judgment in resolving ambiguous, high-impact problems with limited precedent.

Qualifications

Appropriate experience may be substituted for education on an equivalent basis

Minimum Required Education: Bachelor's degree

Minimum Required Experience: 10+ years of progressive Workday experience, with significant hands-on expertise in complex reporting and at least two of HCM, Payroll, or Finance. 5+ years in a Workday architect, lead configuration, or technical design role. 5+ years designing Workday reporting solutions (custom reports, calculated fields, dashboards). Demonstrated experience mentoring or leading the technical work of other analysts.

Preferred Education: Master's degree in information systems, business, or a related field

Preferred Experience: Workday experience in a higher education or academic medical center environment; experience integrating Workday data into an enterprise data warehouse

Preferred Certification/Licensure(s): Workday Pro certification in Reporting/Prism, plus Core HCM, Payroll, Financials, Integrations, or Extend

Sensory Acuity

Ability to detect and translate speech or other communication required. May occasionally require the ability to distinguish colors and perceive relative distances between objects.

Target salary range for this position is between $116,100.00, and $150,800.00 annually. The final offered salary will depend on the applicant's education, experience, skills, and knowledge, as well as considerations of internal equity and market alignment.

Why MCW?

• Outstanding Healthcare Coverage, including but not limited to Health, Vision, and Dental. Along with Flexible Spending options
• 403B Retirement Package
• Competitive Vacation and Paid Holidays offered
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
• Pet Insurance
• On campus Fitness Facility, offering onsite classes
• Additional discounted rates on items such as: Select cell phone plans, local fitness facilities, Milwaukee recreation and entertainment etc.

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