Fractional Workday HCM Architect - Confidential Community Platform
About the Company (Confidential)
Our client operates a trusted neighborhood networking platform used by over 100 million users across thousands of communities. It's where neighbors connect, share trusted local updates, organize events, and receive real -time safety alerts-it truly makes every neighborhood feel like.
As the organization scales, we seek an expert to lead the Workday HCM ecosystem architecture, ensuring the HR backbone aligns with rapid growth, compliance needs, and operational agility-delivered remotely on a fractional basis.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Fractional Workday HCM Architect to design, optimize, and govern the Workday Human Capital Management environment. You'll work remotely with occasional onsite alignment (if needed), partnering across HR, Finance, IT, and Operations to architect solutions that support global operations with privacy, scalability, and seamless integrations.
Key Responsibilities
Architect Workday HCM Strategy: Define the Workday HCM solution, including Core HCM, Absence, Payroll, Benefits, Talent, and Performance modules. Ensure the ecosystem supports scalability, localization, and future releases.
Integrate Systems and Workflows: Design integrations between Workday and the platform's existing systems (e.g., payroll providers, CRM, SSO, recruitment ATS, LMS). Build secure, scalable connectors and data flows.
Optimize HCM Processes: Configure business processes (hire -to -retire, performance reviews, time tracking) to reflect best practices and global compliance. Enhance automation where possible.
Governance & Security: Establish roles, permissions, audit policies, and data segregation. Ensure alignment with privacy standards-and maintain compliance for global data handling.
Stakeholder Collaboration: Work with HR leaders, IT, Finance, and business teams to gather functional requirements and translate them into technical Workday configurations and integrations.
Fractional Engagement Delivery: Operate as a contract -level architect with clear deliverables, milestones, and documentation. Lead technical workshops, design sessions, and provide governance frameworks remotely.
Requirements
Requirements
Proven Expertise in Workday HCM: 7+ years in architecting or configuring Workday HCM modules for fast -growing technology companies; preferably with global employee populations and multi -module deployments.
Integration Proficiency: Experience integrating Workday with external systems using REST APIs, Workday Studio, Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB), Web Services, middleware platforms, or custom -coded integrations.
Global Compliance & Governance Acumen: Strong knowledge of role -based security, data privacy best practices, and experience implementing HRIS governance for compliance.
Stakeholder Management & Consulting: Excellent communication and consulting skills. You will coach HR and business teams, articulate technical solutions clearly, and drive consensus.
Fractional / Remote Consulting Experience: Demonstrated ability to function autonomously in a part -time, fractional architect role with strong deliverable management and time discipline.
Why This Role Matters
Your Workday architecture will be the backbone of human capital operations and strategic HR capability-empowering the platform to grow efficiently, onboard new markets, and scale responsibly. Working with a mission that strengthens neighborhood connections, your contributions will help the business invest in its people, maintain trust, and support seamless, compliant growth.
Note: This is a remote -first, fractional (part -time) contractor role for a confidential client operating a hyperlocal community platform. Company -specific details are withheld and will be shared with candidates during the interview process.
$67k-105k yearly est. 60d+ ago
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VOYA Financial Inc. 4.8
Ohio
Together we fight for everyone's opportunity for a better financial future. We will do this together - with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone's access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.
Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with - and those we acquire throughout our lives - are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.
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About the Role
We're looking for a hands-on AI Architect to lead the design and deployment of cutting-edge AI solutions that drive operational efficiency and innovation across our organization. As our AI Champion, you'll work cross-functionally to identify high-impact opportunities, architect scalable GenAI and agentic workflows, and bring transformative AI capabilities to life. Finance industry experience is preferred but not required.
What You'll Do
* Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to translate real-world challenges into AI-powered solutions
* Architect and build GenAI chatbots and agentic workflows for automation, decision support, and customer engagement
* Design and implement embedding models and vector indexes for intelligent search and recommendation systems
* Set up and optimize Azure cloud infrastructure to support scalable GenAI and agentic AI pipelines
* Lead AI projects from ideation to production, ensuring alignment with business goals and measurable outcomes
* Communicate complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders across departments
* Monitor and refine AI models to ensure accuracy, performance, and reliability
* Stay ahead of AI trends and tools to continuously evolve our capabilities
What You Bring
* Proven experience designing and building GenAI chatbots using LLMs and prompt engineering
* Hands-on development of agentic workflows that integrate reasoning, planning, and tool use
* Strong understanding of embedding models, vector databases, and semantic search
* Experience with Azure AI services (OpenAI, Cognitive Services, Azure ML, etc.)
* Familiarity with AI Foundry, Snowflake, Databricks, and/or UiPath
* Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (LangChain, Hugging Face, PyTorch, etc.)
* Knowledge of MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, and model governance
* Bonus: Experience applying AI to real-world business operations or customer-facing applications
* Bonus: Experience in financial services use cases like credit scoring, fraud detection, or portfolio optimization
Why Join Us
* Shape the future of AI innovation
* Work with cutting-edge tools and technologies
* Collaborate with a forward-thinking team
* Make a measurable impact across the organization
Ready to architect the future with AI? Apply now or reach out to learn more.
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Compensation Pay Disclosure:
Voya is committed to pay that's fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.
The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate's geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
$180,000-$195,000
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Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That's why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.
What We Offer
* Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
* 401(k) Savings plan - with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
* Voya Retirement Plan - employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
* Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
* Paid time off - including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
* Paid volunteer time - 40 hours per calendar year
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Critical Skills
At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:
* Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
* Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
* Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
* Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
* Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.
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Equal Employment Opportunity
Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.
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