Workday System Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, implement, support, and enhance architectural strategies that align with business capabilities and stakeholder requirements.

• Ensure the completeness, integrity, practicality, and suitability of architecture.

• Utilize business and technology expertise to enable or modify business processes, practices, and systems.

• Provide strategic consultation regarding business processes, enterprise solutions, technologies, and capability needs.

• Engage in enterprise strategy development, environmental assessments, opportunity identification, value case formulation, and business innovation portfolio creation.

• Specify and design large or complex systems, solutions, and processes.

• Choose design standards, methodologies, tools, and architecture components; evaluate system designs for technological appropriateness, resource efficiency, and integration.

• Assess major design alternatives, balancing functional, service quality, and systems management requirements.

• Develop architectures, component requirements, specifications, and implementation strategies.

• Advise on technical aspects of system development, integration, and processes.

• Establish and communicate user requirements, characteristics, and tasks for systems.

• Lead improvement initiatives and ensure tangible business benefits.

• Oversee enterprise change management processes and offer recommendations regarding their impact on affected teams.

• Resolve complex architectural and business challenges and guide intricate business initiatives.

• Maintain in-depth knowledge of applications and technical environments.

• Provide leadership, mentoring, technical guidance, and training to peers, developers, management, and business partners.

• Set criteria to evaluate complex decisions and enhance system design or performance.

• Manage difficult relationships with vendors, peers, and team members.

• Reinforce IT principles, policies, procedures, and standards.

• Travel to WVUHS facilities or affiliated sites as required for implementations, training, and support.

• Accept on-call duties and respond via phone or in-person in accordance with departmental policy.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in healthcare, computer science, business, informatics, or a related field, along with eight years of experience in system analysis with business, clinical, or administrative applications; OR a high school diploma or equivalent with twelve years of experience in the same domain.

• Additional certification may be necessary and will be provided by WVUHS Information Technology; completion is required within four months of formal certification training.

• 5 to 7 years of experience with Workday.

• Experience in a healthcare system or environment is preferred.

• Familiarity with data integration, application roadmaps, and/or technical and workflow architecture is preferred.

• Intuitive and comprehensive understanding of highly complex system designs, environmental strategies, and performance in unstable, dynamic, or crisis situations.

• Ability to provide expert technical guidance and lead complex business initiatives.

• Capacity to offer leadership and mentoring to peers, developers, management, and business partners.

• Proficient in managing challenging relationships with vendors, professional peers, and team members.

• Willingness to accept on-call responsibilities and respond by phone or on-site as per departmental policy.

• Ability to comply with WVUHS and assigned entity policies, procedures, and standards.

🏝️ Benefits

• Certification training and additional certifications provided by WVUHS Information Technology.

• Scheduled weekly hours: 40.

• Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities.

• On-call responsibilities with response by phone or on-site as defined by departmental policy.