Senior Workday Enterprise Architect

Design Workday architecture for the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, using cross-module governance, integrations, security, reporting, and data expertise.

As Senior Workday Architect, you establish the platform’s target state and govern solution design across Human Capital Management, Payroll, and Financial Management. You translate approved priorities and documented requirements into secure, scalable, and supportable designs. The position works with Enterprise Systems, functional owners, project leaders, technical specialists, and governance stakeholders. You also provide architectural advice for roadmaps, investments, releases, and lifecycle decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain target architecture, design principles, standards, and decision records
• Lead cross-module solution design across Workday business processes
• Define integration patterns and review complex institutional integrations
• Govern security, privacy, reporting, analytics, and data architecture
• Support implementations, releases, testing, cutover, and production readiness

Requirements:

• University degree or equivalent education and relevant experience
• Minimum eight years of progressive enterprise application experience
• Substantial Workday architecture, implementation, or complex design experience
• Expert knowledge of Workday architecture, integrations, security, reporting, and data
• Workday Pro and/or Partner certification required

Bring Workday architecture, enterprise integration, security, and data governance expertise to the University of Waterloo’s complex platform environment.