Architect, ERP – People Systems
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ERP and People Systems Architect designing Workday, integrations, and AI-enabled finance and HR systems. Supporting Evolent’s healthcare partnerships through secure, governed enterprise architecture.
Responsibilities:
- Define target-state architecture for Evolent's ERP and people systems portfolio and connected systems
- Create technical roadmaps with transition states, dependencies, and retirement steps
- Decide whether needs should be addressed through configuration, integration, or extension
- Publish standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns
- Lead design reviews for integrations, security domains, Extend apps, external data flows, modules, middleware, AI agents, and major Finance or HCM redesigns
- Own Workday integration architecture and inventory, including integration purpose, data, ownership, security, patterns, authentication, error handling, and monitoring
- Define system-of-record boundaries, data ownership, data movement, lineage, reconciliation, reporting, and analytics architecture
- Design ERP security architecture, including security groups, roles, domain and business-process security, segregation of duties, privileged access, and integration identities
- Set cloud SaaS tenant and environment standards and assess Workday releases, vendor roadmaps, modules, and build-versus-buy options
- Design the AI-enabled headless ERP experience using governed APIs, events, and agent tools
- Define responsible-AI requirements for financial and people-data features and agents
- Build proofs of concept and reference implementations, including API and integration prototypes, SQL validation queries, and agent or workflow prototypes
- Specify nonfunctional requirements for performance, resilience, observability, and testability
- Identify and size technical debt and recommend remediation sequences
- Partner with the Director, Enterprise Architecture, Analytics, Security, Engineering, Finance, Talent, and business stakeholders
- Maintain architectural integrity and design quality while delivery leaders own priorities, capacity, execution, operations, and releases
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise applications, ERP, or solution architecture, including architecture responsibility for business-critical finance or people systems
- Deep, hands-on Workday expertise, with depth in Financials or HCM and working knowledge of the other
- Experience with Workday business-process and security configuration, reporting, integration frameworks, tenant strategy, and release cycles
- Hands-on integration design across REST and SOAP APIs, event-driven and batch patterns, and Workday EIB, Studio, and Orchestrate or equivalents
- Authentication, error handling, and monitoring experience
- Strong SQL and data-modeling skills
- Experience designing data flows, lineage, and reconciliation
- Working knowledge of internal controls and privacy for financial and people data, role-based access, segregation of duties, and SOX or comparable audit requirements
- Experience designing automation or AI-enabled enterprise business-process solutions with human-approval points, data-access controls, and governance
- Ability to produce architecture artifacts, including current- and target-state diagrams, integration and data-flow designs, security models, decision records, and nonfunctional requirements
- Ability to explain architecture trade-offs in cost, risk, control, and user impact
- High-speed internet over 10 Mbps at home
- Preferred: architecture experience across Workday HCM and Financials, Adaptive Planning, VNDLY, or Salesforce CRM
- Preferred: Workday embedded AI and agent capabilities
- Preferred: Python or similar scripting, source control, and deployment pipelines
- Preferred: AI-agent evaluation, prompt-injection testing, observability, and cost controls
- Preferred: Microsoft Power BI, integration platforms, Microsoft Entra ID, or Active Directory
- Preferred: ERP implementation, module expansion, or integration modernization experience
- Preferred: healthcare or regulated-industry experience, including HITRUST or comparable frameworks
- Preferred education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or related field
- Preferred certifications: Workday Pro; enterprise, cloud, integration, data, security, or AI architecture certifications
- Candidates must complete identity verification, comprehensive background check, and in-person I-9 verification; drug screening may apply
- Artificial intelligence tools are prohibited and monitored during interviews
Benefits:
- Work/life balance
- Flexible work arrangements and autonomy
- Comprehensive benefits, including health insurance benefits, for qualifying employees
- Identity verification, background check, in-person I-9 verification, and possible drug screening are part of the hiring process (not compensation benefits)
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