Principal architect

Remote, USA

Principal Workday Architect

Location

Remote, USA

Department

IT & Security

Requisition ID

JOBREQ-2514768

Role description

The opportunity

Unity is seeking a visionary and highly experienced Workday Architect to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of our Workday ecosystem across Finance, Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS), and Adaptive Planning. This critical role will serve as the subject matter expert, driving strategic initiatives, ensuring system integrity, and maximizing the value of our Workday investments. You will be instrumental in translating business requirements into scalable and efficient Workday solutions, fostering collaboration between technical teams and business stakeholders, and championing best practices.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the design of complex Workday integrations with other enterprise systems, ensuring data integrity and seamless information flow.

• Translate complex business requirements into detailed functional and technical design specifications for Workday configurations and integrations.

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and optimization within Workday to enhance efficiency and user experience.

• Troubleshoot complex Workday issues and provide expert-level support.

• Partner closely with Finance, HR, IT, and other business stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into Workday solutions

What we're looking for

• Progressive experience in ERP implementation, configuration, and support.

• Extensive experience as a Workday Architect or Lead Consultant with a strong focus on large-scale enterprise deployments.

• Deep expertise in Workday Financial Management: Extensive hands-on experience with at least 5+ modules (e.g., GL, AP, AR, FA, Expenses, Projects, Grants, Planning, Accounting, Procurement).

• Extensive experience with Workday Human Capital Management (HCM): Strong understanding of Core HCM, Benefits, Payroll, Absence, Talent Management, Compensation, and Recruiting.

• Demonstrated experience in designing, building, and maintaining Adaptive Planning models, reports, and dashboards.

• Demonstrated experience with Workday integrations (EIB, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect for Third-Party Payroll, Workday Studio).

• Experience with Workday reporting and analytics (e.g., Custom Reports, Dashboards, Discovery Boards).

• Experience in Financial accounting - other ERPs (SAP, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Dynamics 365)

• In-depth understanding of Workday's security model and its application across various modules.

• Proactive, self-motivated, and results-oriented.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.

You might also have

• Workday certifications in Financials, HCM, and/or Adaptive Planning

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.

• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page ( .

Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity ( .

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If you have a disability that means there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form ( to let us know.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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Gross pay salary

$156,000-$234,000 USD