Workday Finance Solution Architect/Data Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate within a cross-functional team delivering finance transformation initiatives across the Workday platform.
• Define, govern, and evolve solution architecture aligned with enterprise architecture principles, standards, and roadmaps.
• Provide architectural leadership across Workday Financial Management, Prism Analytics, Accounting Center, Reporting, and Integrations.
• Challenge and influence Workday, Systems Integrators, and key stakeholders to ensure optimal solution design decisions.
• Maintain a holistic view of the Workday ecosystem, identifying architectural gaps, risks, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Oversee technical architecture implementation and ensure solutions adhere to architectural standards and best practices.
• Work closely with engineering and development teams to establish delivery standards, technical processes, and quality outcomes.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts including solution blueprints, integration patterns, relationship diagrams, and technical designs.
• Ensure solutions meet business requirements through close collaboration with finance, technology, and transformation stakeholders.
• Drive the re-use of common components, integration patterns, and architectural assets wherever possible.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development teams and Systems Integration partners.
• Support decision-making across the full software development lifecycle, from design through deployment and ongoing optimisation.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience designing and delivering solutions across the Workday platform, including: Workday Financial Management, Workday Prism Analytics, Workday Accounting Center, Workday Reporting, Workday Integrations.
• Strong understanding of Workday security architecture, controls, and best practices.
• Experience in London Markets.
• Proven experience delivering at least one end-to-end Workday implementation across one or more of the above functional areas.
• Experience designing data and analytics solutions using Workday Prism Analytics.
• Ability to influence solution design and challenge implementation partners to achieve optimal outcomes.
• Experience working across the full software development lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of solution architecture principles, design patterns, and integration best practices.
• Ability to create effective and concise architecture documentation that supports delivery teams and business stakeholders.

Desirable Technical Experience

• Experience building cloud-native integration solutions using Microsoft Azure, including: Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, Azure Service Bus, Azure Key Vault.
• Experience integrating legacy finance systems with the Workday platform.
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices using Azure DevOps or similar tooling.
• Exposure to enterprise integration frameworks and modern API-led architectures.
• Understanding of data modelling, reporting, and finance analytics environments.

Qualifications & Professional Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Workday certifications or accreditations (e.g., Workday Pro) are highly desirable.
• Experience working across diverse technology environments and enterprise-scale transformation programmes.
• Strong knowledge of business process improvement and process re-engineering methodologies.