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What You'll do:
Workday Technical Architect
Job Description
Groundswell is seeking a highly skilled Workday Technical Architect to provide technical delivery leadership for a complex Workday implementation supporting an Intelligence Community customer. This individual will oversee and coordinate the technical workstreams supporting the Workday deployment, ensuring technical activities, dependencies, and deliverables remain aligned across the implementation.
The Workday Technical Lead will work closely with the Workday Delivery Lead, Solution Architect, Integration Lead, Data Conversion Lead, Security team, customer CIO organization, OEM technical teams, and other program stakeholders. This individual will maintain visibility into the technical plans, milestones, and deliverables across concurrent, related contracts to assess how dependencies, decisions, or delays may impact contract execution.
The ideal candidate will combine deep Workday technical expertise, enterprise technology experience, and strong technical leadership skills with the ability to operate across multiple organizations and programs. This individual must be able to translate complex technical dependencies into clear impacts, risks, and decisions for both technical and program leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Delivery Leadership
Provide technical leadership and oversight across Workday technical workstreams, including Integration, Data Conversion, Security, environments, testing, and other technical delivery activities.
Ensure technical workstreams have clearly defined requirements, dependencies, milestones, and interfaces with other implementation teams.
Coordinate technical plans, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables across technical workstreams to support successful Workday deployment.
Partner with the Solution Architect to ensure technical implementation remains aligned with the approved solution architecture and technical standards.
Partner with the Workday Delivery Lead to ensure technical activities remain aligned with the Workday Implementation Methodology and overall deployment schedule.
Lead cross-workstream technical discussions and drive resolution of issues that span multiple technical teams.
Ensure technical teams and subcontractor resources remain aligned with implementation priorities and technical standards.
Identify technical risks, issues, and dependencies and ensure appropriate mitigation, ownership, and escalation.
Customer CIO & Technical Stakeholder Engagement
Serve as a key technical interface with the customer's CIO organization and other enterprise technology stakeholders.
Build strong working relationships with customer architecture, infrastructure, cybersecurity, integration, data, and other technical organizations.
Coordinate technical requirements, decisions, dependencies, and readiness activities with customer stakeholders.
Translate Workday and implementation requirements into clear technical impacts and actions for customer technology teams.
Communicate technical risks, decisions, and dependencies clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Concurrent Contract Technical Coordination
Maintain visibility into ATO technical plans, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and decisions that may affect contract execution.
Understand the technical deliverables and responsibilities across both programs and identify dependencies between the two efforts.
Coordinate with ATO technical teams, vendor technical teams. and program leadership to understand progress and identify potential impacts to contract technical activities.
Assess the downstream impact of ATO delays, changes, or technical decisions on contract milestones, workstreams, testing, and deployment readiness.
Work with the Workday Delivery Lead and Program Manager to communicate and manage technical dependencies that may affect overall program commitments.
Support development of mitigation and recovery strategies when external technical dependencies affect contract execution.
Technical Governance & Readiness
Support technical design reviews, readiness reviews, and implementation checkpoints.
Ensure technical deliverables and implementation artifacts meet established quality, architecture, security, and customer requirements.
Coordinate technical dependencies associated with environments, access, security, interfaces, data, testing, and deployment.
Provide technical status, risks, dependencies, and readiness assessments to the Workday Delivery Lead and Program Manager.
Support technical planning for implementation milestones, testing cycles, cutover, deployment, and operational transition.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
10+ years of experience supporting enterprise technology, ERP, HCM, or complex system implementations.
5+ years of relevant Workday implementation experience with significant technical delivery responsibilities.
Experience serving as a Technical Lead, Technical Architect, or comparable technical leadership role on multiple HCM implementations and at least one Workday implementation.
Broad understanding of Workday technical architecture and implementation, including integrations, data conversion, security, environments, reporting, APIs, and deployment activities.
Demonstrated experience coordinating multiple technical workstreams within a large-scale enterprise implementation.
Experience identifying and managing complex technical dependencies across systems, teams, organizations, and implementation schedules.
Experience working with enterprise CIO, IT, architecture, infrastructure, and cybersecurity organizations.
Experience coordinating technical activities and dependencies with software vendors, OEMs, or other external technology partners.
Demonstrated ability to understand technical scope, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies across interconnected programs or projects.
Experience supporting technical planning, testing, deployment readiness, and production transition activities.
Demonstrated experience leading technical teams consisting of employees, consultants, and/or subcontractor resources.
Strong understanding of enterprise integration, data, security, and architecture principles.
Strong technical problem-solving, analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to translate complex technical issues and dependencies into clear program impacts, risks, decisions, and recommended actions.
U.S. Citizenship required per contract requirements.
Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain the government security clearance and access required for the role, up to and including Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI access and Counter Intelligence (CI) polygraph. Employment is contingent upon the ability to obtain and maintain the required clearance and access.
Preferred Qualifications
Current Workday technical certification(s).
Experience supporting Federal government, Department of Defense (DoD), and/or Intelligence Community (IC) Workday implementations.
Experience providing technical leadership for large-scale Workday HCM implementations involving multiple technical workstreams.
Experience working with customer CIO organizations in highly secure Federal environments.
Experience coordinating dependencies between concurrent, related programs.
Experience supporting implementations across multiple secure customer environments.
Familiarity with Federal enterprise architecture, interoperability, and cybersecurity requirements.
Experience supporting Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Authority to Operate (ATO) activities.
Familiarity with NIST security controls and Federal cybersecurity requirements.
Experience supporting complex implementation schedules with significant external technical dependencies.
Work Location & Travel Requirements
Must be local to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area (or willing to relocate) and willing to work onsite within customer SCIF environments 3–4 days per week.
Approximately 5% travel within the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region is required.
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Why You’ll Never Want to Leave:
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Flexible Spending Account
- 4% 401K Match (immediate vesting)
- Paid Time Off
- Tuition reimbursement, certification programs, and professional development
- Flexible work schedule
- On-site gym and childcare option
The salary range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Groundswell, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:
$159,000.00 - $254,872.00NOTE: Groundswell does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Groundswell, and Groundswell will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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Additional Resources:
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Disability Accessibility Accommodation: If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us at [email protected] or 703-639-1777.
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