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.