Workday Principal Solution Architect

Experience Level
Expert Level
Description
The Workday Principal Solution Architect proactively and holistically leads and supports EA activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions. They understand the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value streams, and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis, and design tasks related to supporting the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. They create deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions - including systems (applications, processes, information, and technology), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.
The Workday Central Sustain Principal Solution Architect partners with business leads and stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, secure, supportable technical solutions across the Workday ecosystem. This role must have in depth understanding of current and upcoming Workday capabilities, as well as understand impacts that changes/enhancements will have on existing configuration, business processes, and data elements across the platform. This role partners with HR/Finance leaders, IT, security, and integration/reporting teams to ensure a cohesive tenant design, high-quality releases, and measurable business outcomes.
Key responsibilities
Works closely with Workday Finance, Supply Chain and HR business leads to connect business problems and requirements to Workday technical capabilities. Leads discovery workshops; capture requirements, process maps, and design decisions (future state, controls, and impacts).
Translates requirements into technical designs, estimates, and delivery plans.
Creates and governs functional design artifacts (solution design, BP design, security design, data/worktags strategy, reporting strategy, test strategy).
Establishes, manages and maintains configuration standards and guardrails (naming conventions, shared objects, condition rules, calculated fields, dependencies).
Guides tenant configuration approach: business processes, security roles, org structures, eligibility rules, compensation frameworks, and validations.
Drives test planning and execution (SIT/UAT), defect triage, and readiness; ensure traceability from requirement design test.
Creates standards for reporting solution and oversee reporting governance.
Work with functional areas to guide inbound/outbound data strategy (loads, conversions, incremental updates, validation).
Additional Skills & Qualifications
Workday Pro certification/s
Experience with data conversion at scale and complex cutovers.
Exposure to Prism Analytics, Extend, Payroll interfaces, Benefits/Finance integrations, or IAM (SSO).
Exposure to integrations (EIB, Core Connectors, Studio), reporting (advanced reports, calc fields), and/or Prism.
Functional architecture and process design (fit-to-standard mindset).
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Chesapeake, VA.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $70.00 - $80.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully remote position.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Apr 20, 2026.
>About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.