Overview

The Workday Central Sustain Principal Solution Architect proactively and holistically leads and supports EA activities that guide the development and management of a portfolio of solutions.  They understand the concepts of business goals, objectives and business outcomes, business capabilities, value streams, and business processes and their importance in solution architecture. The solutions architect provides the necessary leadership, analysis, and design tasks related to supporting the development of technology solutions to ensure that solutions meet business needs and align with architectural governance and standards. They create deliverables for managing the organization's portfolio of "to be" and "as is" solutions — including systems (applications, processes, information, and technology), shared infrastructure services, and shared application services and components to enable and drive targeted business outcomes.
The Workday Central Sustain Principal Solution Architect partners with business leads and stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, secure, supportable technical solutions across the Workday ecosystem.  This role must have in depth understanding of current and upcoming Workday capabilities, as well as understand impacts that changes/enhancements will have on existing configuration, business processes, and data elements across the platform.  This role partners with HR/Finance leaders, IT, security, and integration/reporting teams to ensure a cohesive tenant design, high-quality releases, and measurable business outcomes.

Key responsibilities

  •  Works closely with Workday Finance, Supply Chain and HR business leads to connect business problems and requirements to Workday technical capabilities.  Leads discovery workshops; capture requirements, process maps, and design decisions (future state, controls, and impacts).
  • Translates requirements into technical designs, estimates, and delivery plans.
  • Creates and governs functional design artifacts (solution design, BP design, security design, data/worktags strategy, reporting strategy, test strategy).
  • Establishes, manages and maintains configuration standards and guardrails (naming conventions, shared objects, condition rules, calculated fields, dependencies).
  • Guides tenant configuration approach: business processes, security roles, org structures, eligibility rules, compensation frameworks, and validations.
  • Drives test planning and execution (SIT/UAT), defect triage, and readiness; ensure traceability from requirement → design → test.
  • Creates standards for reporting solution and oversee reporting governance.
  • Work with functional areas to guide inbound/outbound data strategy (loads, conversions, incremental updates, validation).

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree (Preferred)
  • Experience in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree –  10+ years of relevant experience without a degree 

Certification/Licensure

  •     Workday Pro certification/s (Preferred)

Experience

  • Required qualifications
    •    8+ years of relevant experience with a degree 
    •    Experience in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree.  10+ years of relevant experience without a degree 
    •    Proven delivery leadership in a Workday core area (FIN, SCM, HCM).  
    •    Experience leading technical design, estimates, and execution across multiple workstreams.
    •    Strong troubleshooting skills (integration failures, data issues, security access, performance).
    •    Demonstrated ability to lead functional design decisions, manage trade-offs, and influence stakeholders.
    •    Experience with end-to-end application lifecycle management: discovery, design, configure, test, deploy.
    •    Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

    Preferred qualifications
    •    Experience with data conversion at scale and complex cutovers.
    •    Exposure to Prism Analytics, Extend, Payroll interfaces, Benefits/Finance integrations, or IAM (SSO).
    •    Exposure to integrations (EIB, Core Connectors, Studio), reporting (advanced reports, calc fields), and/or Prism.
    •    Functional architecture and process design (fit-to-standard mindset).

Keywords: Workday SCM HCM

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay rate for Full Time employment is:$106,080.00-$176,820.80. Additional compensation may be available for this role such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Sentara Health, an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system, celebrates more than 135 years in pursuit of its mission – “we improve health every day.” Sentara is one of the largest health systems in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, and among the top 20 largest not-for-profit integrated health systems in the country, with 34,000 employees, 12 hospitals in Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina including 10 hospitals with the prestigious Magnet® recognition, and the Sentara Health Plans division which serves more than 1 million members in Virginia and Florida. Sentara is recognized nationally for clinical quality and safety, and is strategically focused on innovation and creating an extraordinary health care experience for our patients and members. Sentara was named a Health Quality Innovator of the Year (2024), was recognized by Forbes as “America’s Best-In-State Employer” (2024), “Best Employer for Veterans” (2022, 2023), and “Best Employer for Women” (2020), and named to IBM Watson Health’s “Top 15 Health Systems” (2021, 2018).

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Our Culture

At Sentara, our differences are our strengths. The unique backgrounds, skills, and experiences that each Sentara colleague brings to work make Sentara special and allow us to deliver excellent service and care to our patients, members, and communities.

Our Benefits

We are committed to consistently enhancing our training, advancement tracks, work-life benefits, and more. Our goal is to make you feel more excited to be here every day!

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The Sentara Nursing Experience

Making a meaningful impact on health requires compassion, dedication, continuous learning, teamwork and collaboration. At Sentara, we also recognize that in valuing the professional and personal well-being of our nurses, we build a stronger, more supportive workplace for our nurses. And that’s making us healthier from the inside out. These principles unite our nurses across various roles and locations.

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The Sentara Clinical Experience

No matter where you choose to join us, in an inpatient or outpatient setting, you will be part of an interdisciplinary Clinical team passionate about quality care and patient safety. You will have access to the tools and technologies you need to succeed and the chance to learn and grow through training and educational programs so you can advance your career as a Clinical professional.

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The Sentara Support Services Experience

Each day, the Sentara Support Services team helps improve healthcare at more than 300 Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina sites. We perform various patient care activities, provide multiple services, and handle administrative functions that support our patients and their families. These vital functions include assisting the medical team in all aspects of medical care, such as treatments, procedures, and diagnostic and laboratory testing.

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The Medical Group Experience

As part of Sentara Health, Sentara Medical Group providers have diverse opportunities across regions and inpatient and outpatient locations. For those providers based in one of 12 hospitals, we have close working relationships with the administration, ensuring a collegial and collaborative environment where all can come together around shared initiatives.

Guided by a dedicated board of providers, Sentara Medical Group not only offers leadership opportunities for its providers but also underscores the group’s crucial role in fulfilling Sentara’s overarching mission to meet the needs of our diverse patient populations, some of our most vulnerable communities. Our physicians and APPs enjoy opportunities for both personal and professional career growth through a network of resources aimed to cultivate an environment suitable for a lifelong career home.

Your Perspective Matters

Nurses are the heartbeat of our exceptional team. Our approach empowers nurses to actively participate in decision-making. Our nurses have a stake in shaping their workplace as well as their own career growth; one of the benefits of our focus on supporting and valuing team members. This framework encompasses our nursing mission, vision, values, philosophy, and the essential elements of our Professional Practice Model.

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Our Award-Winning Care

Forbes 2024 America's Best-In-State Employers. Powered by Statista
Forbes 2023 The Best Employers for Veterans. Powered by Statista.
Virginia Values Veterans. Official V3 Certified Company
America's Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025. Newsweek. Plant-A Insights Group
2024 Health Quality Innovator of the Year
2024 LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer. Human Rights Campaign. Healthcare Equality Index.
Magnet Recognized. American Nurses Credentialing Center.

We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Sentara Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to the hiring, advancement, and fair treatment of every individual. Sentara and its affiliates do not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, marital status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.

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We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Sentara Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to the hiring, advancement, and fair treatment of every individual. Sentara and its affiliates do not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, marital status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.

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