Senior Manager - Workday Architect

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.
As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:
Preferred Knowledge/Skills:
Demonstrates intimate abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader in making IT design recommendations, including the following areas:

• Interpreting and translating goals into technical specifications, delivering thought leadership of specific technologies and driving technology change;
• Leveraging business and domain acumen to interpret and translate architecture plans to business plans;
• Supervising and establishing delivery of project initiatives;
• Building trusting and influential relationships and engaging with vendors and third parties as appropriate;
• Collaborating with other Architects and Developers to provide technical design guidance to align with strategy and applicable technical standards;
• Working independently to evaluate and make strategic decisions that will address specific technology design needs;
• Participating in the development of thought leadership to influence their sphere of technology in the use of innovation to advance business capabilities;
• Researching and evaluating emerging technologies and novel approaches in order to make recommendations to enhance business processes and/or create a competitive advantage;
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams in resolving complex technical issues;
• Providing design guidance that follows the enterprise architecture vision and adheres to applicable application technology guidelines;
• Mitigating the impact of technical design to security, performance and data privacy;
• Participating in application solutions including assisting with planning and architectural design, development, resolution of technical issues and application rationalization;
• Displaying initiative and an ability to lead others;
• Providing coaching and technical mentoring;
• Learning rapidly and continuously taking advantage of new technologies, concepts and business models while demonstrating a history of staying current in emerging technology trends; and,
• Providing cost estimate and work order of internal client projects.

Additional Job Description - Requirements :

• Strong communication, presentation and relationship building skills;
• Experience with iterative or agile software development methodologies;
• Strong understanding of cloud SaaS architecture principles and integration patterns;
• Working in a global/virtual team environment;
• Demonstrating strong background in the areas of Java, Javascript, API(SOAP & REST), XML, XSLT, XPath, JSON, oAuth 2.0, PGP, mySQL. Nice to have Azure and .NET experience;
• Prior experience in the following Workday integration technologies:
  • Workday Studio integration
  • Report as a Service
  • 3rd payroll integration
  • Workday connectors
  • Document Transformation & EIB
  • Workday API integration in both SOAP and REST
  • BIRT report design
• Demonstrating prior experience with Workday HCM, Talent Management, Recruiting and Security configuration;
• Solid understanding of security and data privacy standards, data governance and integration/development standards and best practices;
• Workday Certified Integration, Studio and CCTPP Consultants or Integration Pro is preferred. Nice to have Workday Extend experience.