The Opportunity:

As a rapidly growing biotech company, we are scaling our enterprise systems to support a dynamic workforce, evolving regulatory requirements, and complex financial operations. We are seeking a Workday Architect person to lead the design, development, and optimization of our Workday platform.

• Oversee the end-to-end architecture, governance, and optimization of the Workday ecosystem including HCM, Learning, Talent, Peakon, Sana, and Advanced Compensation etc.
• Provide architectural oversight and governance for external implementation partners, AMS providers, and integration vendors to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and strategic objectives.
• Drive enterprise architecture decisions across the HR technology ecosystem by partnering with IT Enterprise Architecture, IT Security, and Finance teams to ensure scalable, compliant, and business-aligned solutions across Workday and interconnected enterprise platforms.
• Lead adoption and governance of AI-enabled HR technologies, intelligent automation, and digital workflow capabilities across the Workday ecosystem to improve employee experience, operational efficiency, workforce insights, and decision support while maintaining enterprise compliance and data governance standards.
• In collaboration with Workday leads, lead solution design across existing and new modules with a focus on configurability and extensibility.
• Establish and govern enterprise standards for configuration, integrations, security, environment management, release governance and operational support models across the Workday ecosystem.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on scalability, automation, employee experience, and operational efficiency.
• Stay current on Workday roadmap, emerging features, and industry trends, recommending adoption where appropriate.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex system, integration, and performance issues at the architectural level.
• Accountable for ensuring the Workday platform maintains enterprise compliance, audit readiness, data governance, risk management, and business continuity standards aligned with SOX, GxP, and other regulatory requirements applicable to the biotech industry.

Required Skills, Experience and Education:

• 10+ years of Workday experience, including leadership and architecture responsibilities.
• Proven experience designing scalable, secure enterprise HR systems in high-growth environments.
• Extensive experience building WorkDay systems strategy from scratch and lead to implementation and execution cross-functionally.
• Expertise across Workday modules (HCM, Learning, Talent, Advanced Compensation, and employee engagement platforms such as Peakon).
• Proven success leading enterprise HR technology teams and partnering with executive stakeholders across HR, Finance, IT, and Compliance.
• Strong experience with Workday integrations including Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, APIs.
• Strong understanding of Workday security architecture, governance, and enterprise data management practices.
• Experience operating in regulated environments such as biotech, life sciences, healthcare, or pharmaceutical organizations.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience leading and scaling Workday platforms in a high-growth biotech, life sciences, or other regulated environment.
• Experience designing complex integrations between Workday and enterprise platforms such as ERP, identity management, payroll, and analytics systems.
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The base pay salary range for this full-time position for candidates working onsite at our headquarters in Redwood City, CA is listed below. The range displayed on each job posting is intended to be the base pay salary range for an individual working onsite in Redwood City and will be adjusted for the local market a candidate is based in. Our base pay salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Individual base pay salary is determined by multiple factors, including job-related skills, experience, market dynamics, and relevant education or training.

Please note that base pay salary range is one part of the overall total rewards program at RevMed, which includes competitive cash compensation, robust equity awards, strong benefits, and significant learning and development opportunities.

Base Pay Salary Range

$211,000-$264,000 USD

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