Business Architect – Expert

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Act as the liaison between enterprise business requirements and HR service delivery.

• Convert strategic objectives into cohesive, scalable people processes, capabilities, and experiences.

• Oversee intricate business architecture and comprehensive HR transformation initiatives.

• Set architectural standards and outline future-state roadmaps.

• Guide pivotal design choices for the advancement of HR capabilities.

• Influence and counsel senior HR and technology stakeholders regarding architectural and solution choices.

• Direct the complete HR process and employee experience exploration and redesign.

• Create strategy blueprints, capability maps, root cause analyses, process models, business architecture blueprints, future-state operating models, capability roadmaps, and scalable solutions.

• Utilize Workday HCM functional and configuration expertise to assess requirements and solution alternatives.

• Collaborate with HR Technology and Service Delivery teams to enhance streamlining, automation, and AI-enabled capabilities.

• Evaluate the effects on integrations, security, reporting, data, and downstream systems.

• Shape the global HR Service Delivery model across various functions, technologies, and regions.

• Establish methodologies for business architecture, design standards, and governance practices.

• Act as a trusted advisor and escalation point for intricate business architecture issues.

• Counsel leaders on solution alternatives, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs.

• Offer guidance and mentorship to less experienced architects.

• Balance global operating frameworks with local business and employee requirements.

• Propel enhancements in effectiveness, efficiency, employee experience, and the long-term maturity of HR capabilities.

• Collaborate with a globally distributed team, including colleagues in India and Northern Ireland.

• No supervisory responsibilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive experience in HR, HR technology, business architecture, enterprise transformation, or related fields.

• 5+ years of extensive hands-on Workday HCM experience.

• Proven experience leading complex, enterprise-scale HR transformation and business architecture projects involving multiple functions, systems, and stakeholders.

• Advanced expertise in Workday HCM, including strong knowledge of Core HCM and proficiency in one or more additional functional areas such as Payroll or Time Tracking.

• Capability to design end-to-end business processes and future-state operating models.

• Experience collaborating with HR Business Partners, Centers of Excellence, HR Technology, and Service Delivery.

• Experience in assessing solution alternatives and advising senior leaders on business impacts, technical limitations, dependencies, risks, and architectural trade-offs.

• Experience in establishing or applying business architecture principles, process standards, and governance frameworks.

• Ability to influence senior leadership and convey complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience mentoring peers and providing expert-level guidance in globally distributed and cross-functional settings.

• Allstate typically does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this role.

• Must submit to a background investigation.

• A dedicated, private workspace free from distractions while working remotely.

• Appropriate desk and seating arrangements when working from home.

• Reliable internet connection with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.

• Valid Photo Identification required at the start of the interview, unless the candidate is internal.

• Preferred: experience with multiple Workday implementations, large-scale optimizations, and/or enterprise-wide HR transformation initiatives.

• Preferred: working knowledge of Workday integrations, security, reporting, and dependencies of downstream systems.

• Preferred: familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and business architecture methodologies.

• Preferred: ability to influence enterprise technology strategy and solution design within a complex global HR ecosystem.

• Preferred: practical experience in applying automation, process simplification, and/or AI-enabled solutions to HR service delivery and employee experiences.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.

• Monthly connectivity reimbursement to help with internet expenses.

• Opportunity to influence the future of protection while supporting causes that are important to you.

• Background investigation is required for candidates offered the position.