HRIT Systems Architect

The HRIT Architect is responsible for defining and governing the technical architecture, configuration strategy, and operational roadmap for HR technology solutions across the enterprise, with a primary focus on Workday. This role ensures solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards and long-term platform strategy. Operating within the IT organization, the HRIT Architect serves as a strategic partner to HR, Payroll, Benefits, Operations, and IT leadership, providing guidance on Workday best practices, solution design, governance, and continuous improvement. This role is responsible for supporting and evolving a mature Workday environment, ensuring business processes and technology solutions remain effective as organizational needs change. The HRIT Architect will play a key role in supporting mergers, acquisitions, workforce integrations, and organizational transformation initiatives while helping business stakeholders adopt scalable and sustainable processes. This role requires deep hands-on Workday configuration expertise, strong stakeholder management skills, and the ability to influence business decisions through trusted partnership and subject matter expertise. Duties and Responsibilities HR Technology Architecture & Platform Governance Define, own, and govern the enterprise architecture for Workday and related HR technology solutions. Establish architectural standards and design principles that ensure solutions are scalable, secure, compliant, supportable, and aligned with long-term business objectives. Provide oversight for Workday HCM, Payroll, and Benefits configurations, security frameworks, business processes, reporting, and organizational structures. Review and approve solution designs, configuration changes, and enhancement requests to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and long-term platform sustainability. Partner with HRIS, Payroll, Benefits, IT, Security, and Integration teams to ensure cohe