Senior Workday HCM Architect / Advanced Workday HCM Expert

About the Role

Signal & Strand is hiring an elite-level Senior Workday HCM Architect to join our expanding Managed Workday Services offering. This is a high-impact, senior technical role supporting multiple client tenants with deep Workday HCM expertise across configuration, integrations, reporting, automation, and system architecture.

You will own end-to-end solution design and serve as the Workday HCM authority—building advanced calculated fields, complex business processes, robust integrations, scalable security models, and enterprise-grade reporting frameworks.

If you are the type of Workday expert who can walk into any tenant, diagnose what’s wrong, build what’s missing, and elevate every part of the HCM ecosystem—this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities

Full-Spectrum Workday HCM Architecture & Configuration

• Architect, configure, and optimize all major HCM modules, including:
  • HCM Core
  • Compensation
  • Talent & Performance
  • Benefits
  • Absence / Time Tracking
  • Recruiting
  • Workday Help / Case Management (optional)
• Build advanced business processes, sub-processes, routing logic, and conditional logic across modules.

Expert-Level Reporting & Calculated Fields

• Create complex calculated fields, advanced conditional logic, and reusable reporting frameworks.
• Build Matrix, Composite, Advanced, BIRT, and dashboard reports for HR, Finance, and executives.
• Support data transformations and analytics through Workday Prism and optimized datasets.