Sr. Workday Application Architect HCM, Worldwide Grocery Tech-Business Operations & Program Management

Worldwide Grocery Stores Tech is seeking a Sr. Workday Application Architect to join our Workday Technology team.

The Workday Application Architect for Human Capital Management (HCM) is a technical leadership role responsible for designing architecting and delivering solutions across the Workday HCM platform. This position serves as the technical lead for managing solution design and delivery for HR applications with primary focus on Workday HCM modules including Human Resources Recruiting Talent Management Benefits Compensation Performance Enablement and Payroll.

Key job responsibilities
- Serve as technical lead for Workday HCM solution design and delivery across HR Recruiting Talent Management Benefits Compensation and Payroll modules.
- Participate in architecture reviews to ensure optimized high-quality systems and translate technology strategies into technical requirements.
- Understand High-Level Designs from Enterprise Solution Architects and collaborate with Product Owners and Business Systems Analysts to create/approve Low-Level Designs.
- Design and architect Workday integrations and configurations ensuring solutions meet business needs effectively.
- Manage technical planning development and troubleshooting of integrations with third-party HR systems.
- Assist with effort estimation by assessing complexity risk and dependencies for HCM projects.
- Coordinate project design support system configuration and ensure proper transition handoff for new implementations.
- Provide expertise in evaluating HR applications portfolio and recommend technical releases supporting business needs.
- Analyze and recommend system enhancements to streamline HR and Payroll operations.
- Maintain knowledge of Security & Compliance Processes Risk Management SOX Controls and data privacy requirements.
- Develop coding standards and technical documentation including design specifications and process flows.

A day in the life
You architect HR transformation solutions designing integrations between Workday HCM and third-party systems for recruiting benefits and payroll. You lead design sessions translating business requirements into technical solutions create Low-Level Designs for talent management enhancements and develop automation for employee lifecycle processes. Your work includes building compensation workflows architecting data flows for open enrollment and designing self-service capabilities that empower employees and managers. You monitor system integrations troubleshoot issues with benefits vendors mentor junior engineers on best practices and ensure SOX compliance. Key stakeholders include Business Partners Talent Acquisition Payroll and Benefits teams.

About the team
Join the Workday Technology team driving HR technology transformation at Amazon Worldwide Grocery supporting Whole Foods Market. Our mission is to deliver technical solutions that optimize HR operations across recruiting benefits payroll and talent management for a workforce spanning 600 locations. We operate in an Agile environment collaborating closely with HR Business Partners Product Owners and Developers. Our culture values technical excellence continuous learning and knowledge sharing. Team members hold multiple Workday certifications and actively mentor each other on best practices. We balance strategic architecture work with hands-on development ensuring solutions meet both business needs and enterprise standards.

- 5 years of developing end-to-end analytics solutions including system configuration model building data security and reporting experience
- Experience identifying and resolving complex issues
- Experience with architecture or system engineering
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development life cycle including agile methodologies coding standards code reviews source management build processes testing and operations
- Experience with Workday Human Capital Management (HCM)

- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers or experience debugging profiling and implementing best software engineering practices in large-scale systems
- Experience analyzing and troubleshooting RESTful web API calls or experience operating highly available distributed systems of data extraction ingestion and processing of large data sets
- Knowledge of industry standard test automation tools and experience developing product test frameworks
- Experience using data reporting or tools to measure performance and make adjustments accordingly
- Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g. Oracle) or Data Warehouse
- 5 years of experience in HR business/systems analysis role solutions architect or related experience.
- Global/Enterprise HR platform implementation experience.
- Workday Certifications(one or more): HCM (Core Human Resources) Benefits Recruiting Advanced Compensation Performance Management Security Payroll Integrations Reporting Extend PRISM.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $122000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $210800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.