Solution Architect L4 - Workday Solutions

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<p><b>The Role</b></p><p>You will own the design and delivery of Workday solutions that directly enable critical people and talent decisions. You are responsible for configurations, strong in solution design, opinionated about tradeoffs, and accountable for end-to-end outcomes from design through deployment and stabilization. You’ll partner with business stakeholders, challenge their assumptions, and rapidly translate messy business needs into pragmatic, scalable Workday solutions.</p><p><br/><b>What You’ll Do:</b></p><p><br/><b>Own end-to-end solutions</b></p><ul><li><p>Partner directly with Talent, Product, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand business objectives and translate them into system designs</p></li><li><p>Independently lead medium-to-large features and workstreams, from discovery through deployment, and make sure they land with measurable business impact<br/>​</p></li></ul><p><b>Design, configure, and deploy</b></p><ul><li><p>Configure and deploy Workday HCM functionality, making clear, opinionated tradeoffs between speed, simplicity, and flexibility and pushing back when complexity doesn’t pay off.</p></li><li><p>Conduct fit-gap analysis to identify where we adapt the business to Workday vs. where we extend Workday to meet critical needs; make those calls explicitly and defend them with data and logic.</p></li><li><p>Create and maintain clear solution designs, configuration logs, and documentation that make it easy for others to support and extend your work</p></li><li><p>Collaborate with other team members to define mapping, scenarios, and testing for integrations between Workday and other systems, ensuring the end-to-end flow is successful.</p></li><li><p>Troubleshoot and resolve issues during implementation and post-go-live, focusing on root cause and preventing repeat problems<br/>​</p></li></ul><p><b>Drive standards and continuous improvement</b></p><ul><li><p>Act as a Workday subject-matter expert by setting and evolving design patterns, configuration standards, and “do/don’t” guidelines for the team</p></li><li><p>Stay current on Workday releases, features, and industry practices; proactively propose improvements and be willing to deprecate legacy solutions that no longer make sense.</p></li><li><p>Contribute to continuous improvement of internal processes, tools, and methodologies to increase speed, quality, and learning for the broader team.</p></li><li><p>Avoid recreating legacy processes in Workday without questioning whether they still make sense.</p></li></ul><p><br/><b>What You Bring</b></p><p><br/><b>Scope & Impact</b></p><ul><li><p>Experience independently owning medium-to-large Workday features or workstreams from design through post-go-live support.</p></li><li><p>Demonstrated ability to align solutions to clear business metrics and measure the impact of your work.</p></li><li><p>Track record of solving simple to moderately complex operational and technical problems in Workday without constant escalation.</p></li></ul><p><br/><b>Technical Depth & Execution</b></p><ul><li><p>Experience defining or improving team-wide configuration or design standards</p></li><li><p>Strong hands-on experience configuring Workday</p></li><li><p>Solid understanding of Workday data structures, reporting, security and basic integrations; comfortable partnering with integration engineers on more complex patterns.</p></li><li><p>Habit of leaving systems, documentation, and processes better than you found them.</p></li></ul><p><br/><b>Decision Making & Communication</b></p><ul><li><p>Clear, structured thinking: can map ambiguous business requirements to specific Workday solutions and explain tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.</p></li><li><p>Able to prioritize, communicate status and risks crisply</p></li></ul><p><br/><b>Influence & Collaboration</b></p><ul><li><p>Effective collaborator with HR, Talent, Engineering, and Operations teams; known for making others more effective</p></li><li><p>Willing to provide feedback to peers, help unblock others, and contribute actively in team design and architecture discussions.</p></li></ul><p><br/><b>Culture & Values</b></p><ul><li><p>Holds yourself and others to a high-performance bar</p></li><li><p>Speaks up when you disagree — with data, logic, and respect — even when it’s uncomfortable or unpopular.</p></li><li><p>Oriented toward velocity and practical business impact</p></li><li><p>Invested in understanding the HR and Talent domain deeply enough to challenge stakeholders<br/></p></li></ul>Generally, our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $180,000.00 - $310,000.00. This compensation range will vary based on location.<p></p><p>Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more details about our Benefits here.</p><p></p>

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