Workday Principal Solution Architect

Sentara Health$154K – $228K per yearUnited States only

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Norfolk, VA Work Shift

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The Workday Central Sustain 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.

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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).
Education
Bachelor's Degree (Preferred)
Experience in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree - 10+ years of relevant experience without a degree
Certification/Licensure
Workday Pro certification/s (Preferred)
Experience
Required qualifications
8+ years of relevant experience with a degree
Experience in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree. 10+ years of relevant experience without a degree
Proven delivery leadership in a Workday core area (FIN, SCM, HCM).
Experience leading technical design, estimates, and execution across multiple workstreams.
Strong troubleshooting skills (integration failures, data issues, security access, performance).
Demonstrated ability to lead functional design decisions, manage trade-offs, and influence stakeholders.
Experience with end-to-end application lifecycle management: discovery, design, configure, test, deploy.
Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications
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).
Keywords: Workday SCM HCM