Principal Partner AI Architect

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About the Team

The Partner AI Experience team is Workdays dedicated investment in accelerating our most strategic GSI and Ecosystem partnerships. Working alongside the Global Partner Organization (GPO) this team serves as the technical functional and quantitative experts providing the enablement infrastructure product intelligence and go-to-market support that allows our partners to build and sell Workday AI with confidence and speed.

Each pod is aligned to a single strategic GSI or Ecosystem Motion and staffed with specialists across the oCIO oCHRO and oCFO domains along with a dedicated Business Value Architect. The pod works across the partners solution consulting teams architects offering leaders and value desks to ensure the partners Workday practice is equipped differentiated and positioned to grow.

About the Role

As a Partner AI Architect (oCIO) at the Principal or Senior Partner Enterprise Architect level you are the technical authority within your pod for Workdays AI platform integration architecture and agentic capabilities. Your focus is ensuring the partners most technical teams architects CTOs and offering developers have the depth of understanding they need to design position and build on Workdays platform with confidence well before their customers ask the questions.

Your work shapes how the partners technical practice thinks about and builds on Workday so that when platform and agentic decisions are being made at clients Workday is already the assumed foundation. You will translate complex Workday architecture into clear credible narratives for CTO-level audiences design reference architectures the partner can own and ensure the partners demo environments reflect the full integrated power of Workdays platform. You will coordinate closely with the Forward Deployed Partner Architect aligned to your GSI who engages directly on the partners largest Workday deals.

This role aligns to the Principal Enterprise Architect job skills and core skills emphasizing enterprise architecture leadership strategic influence deep technical expertise and cross-organizational collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Practice Readiness

• Serve as the primary technical authority for Workdays AI platform integration architecture (A2A MCP) agentic capabilities and Data Cloud within your pod.

• Ensure the partners architects and technical teams have deep current knowledge of Workdays platform and roadmap well ahead of general availability so they confidently lead platform conversations before Workday is in the room.

• Design and deliver architect-tier sessions and technical deep-dives that build genuine fluency within the partners elite technical teams not just surface-level awareness.

• Maintain authoritative knowledge of Workdays technical roadmap and translate upcoming releases into clear implications for the partners architecture patterns delivery standards and solution portfolio.

Architecture & Platform Strategy

• Architect reference solutions that articulate how Workdays unified platform spanning HCM Finance and agentic AI fits into a clients broader technology and AI strategy giving the partner a credible repeatable story for how Workday anchors the enterprise ecosystem.

• Define agent orchestration and governance patterns that leverage Workdays security framework data model and agent system of record to deliver enterprise-grade AI enabling partners to speak confidently to governance compliance and risk.

• Design cross-platform agent integration patterns that show how Workday agents connect and collaborate within a clients broader AI ecosystem including integration best practices across MCP and A2A that position Workday as the trusted data foundation.

• Help the partner identify architectural patterns that create durable partner-owned IP ensuring offerings are designed to scale and be reused rather than remain one-off implementations.

Competitive & Platform Positioning

• Equip the partners technical teams with sharp current competitive positioning clearly articulating how Workdays native architecture and connected data model compares to competitors and generic AI builds stitched together via APIs.

• Translate Workdays technical differentiation into language that resonates with CTOs chief architects and senior technology leaders focusing on architectural implications risk posture and long-term platform consequences rather than features alone.

• Bring partner-developed architectural patterns and technical innovations back to Workdays Forward Deployed and field teams ensuring those insights strengthen Workdays broader technical positioning and sales motions.

• Serve as a first line of defense for the partners technical teams fielding architectural objections platform questions and complex technical issues encountered with clients and ensuring the partner has the depth and positioning to move forward with confidence.

• Represent Workday alongside the partner at joint industry events technical forums and architecture conferences co-presenting on platform strategy and agentic AI to strengthen the partners technical credibility and Workdays presence in key conversations.

Demo & Technical Readiness

• Partner with the Solution Architecture team to shape demo environment data functional flows and provisioning ensuring the partners demo experience reflects the full integration of Workday-delivered product with GSI-delivered solutions credibly end-to-end.

• Bring partner-built solutions and architectural assets back to the Solution Architecture team so Workdays field teams can demo partner-delivered solutions seamlessly closing the loop between what the partner builds and what Workday can show.

• Build and maintain code accelerators integration playbooks and technical reference materials the partners teams can deploy at scale across their global practice.

• Coordinate with the Forward Deployed Partner Architect on the partners largest deals ensuring architectural standards and patterns defined at the practice level translate directly into deal-level technical confidence.

About You

Basic Qualifications

Principal Partner Enterprise Architect

• 7 years of enterprise software solution consulting architecture or hands-on experience supporting enterprise software applications at Workday or a comparable enterprise software company.

• 5 years of applied knowledge of cloud architecture security reporting and integration standards including API-based and native integration patterns.

• 5 years of Workday experience

• Experience working with or within Global System Integrators large SIs or strategic technology partners either from the vendor side or from within a GSI or consulting practice.

• Demonstrated domain expertise in oCIO-relevant capabilities such as platform architecture AI/ML integration agentic frameworks or enterprise technology strategy.

Senior Partner Enterprise Architect

• 5 years of enterprise software solution consulting architecture or hands-on experience supporting enterprise software applications at Workday or a comparable enterprise software company.

• 3 years of applied knowledge of cloud architecture security reporting and integration standards including API-based and native integration patterns.

• 3 years of Workday experience

• Experience working with or within Global System Integrators large SIs or strategic technology partners either from the vendor side or from within a GSI or consulting practice.

• Demonstrated domain expertise in oCIO-relevant capabilities such as platform architecture AI/ML integration agentic frameworks or enterprise technology strategy.

Other Qualifications

• Proven ability to engage credibly with GSI CTOs chief architects and offering development leads as a technical peer and trusted advisor grounded in deep platform knowledge and/or prior consulting or implementation experience.

• Strong command of Workdays technical architecture and AI platform including Sana Data Cloud and integration frameworks or equivalent experience with a clear track record of ramping quickly on new platforms; deep Workday knowledge is highly valued.

• Experience designing and delivering reference architectures technical playbooks or integration standards that are adopted at scale within a partner or enterprise organization.

• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear outcome-oriented narratives for both technical and executive audiences with strong written and verbal communication skills.

• AI evangelist mindset: a visceral curiosity for agents LLMs RAG and MCP with a practical understanding of how to architect and operationalize agentic AI in the enterprise.

• Natural feedback loop orientation you proactively surface what you are seeing in partner practices (architectural challenges emerging patterns competitive signals) back to Workdays Product & Technology teams so the platform continues to reflect real partner and customer needs.

• Highly collaborative working style with demonstrated ability to coordinate across GPO Product & Technology Forward Deployed Solution Consulting and other cross-functional teams.

• Energized by a fast-moving investment-stage environment comfortable operating where standards are being written not just followed with a strong bias toward learning iteration and continuous improvement.

Workday Pay Transparency Statement

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including but not limited to geography experience skills job duties and business need among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

Primary Location:

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $138600 USD - $208000 USD

Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $162200 USD - $243200 USD

Additional Considerations:

If performed in Colorado the pay range for this job is $162200 USD - $243200 USD based on min and max pay range for that role if performed in CO.

08/31/2026

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