HCM Solution and Integration Architect

Overview

The Solution & Integrations Architect will play a critical architecture leadership role within the HR Technology portfolio, with a core focus on simplifying the overall solution architecture and integration landscape. This role reports to the Director of HCM DevOps in the Corporate Functions D&T organization.

What you'll do

• Own and define end-to-end solution architectures for HR capabilities across the employee lifecycle, ensuring alignment to enterprise and HR target architectures.
• Apply business capability-based architecture to determine system fit, avoid duplication, and guide investment decisions.
• Lead the rationalisation of the HR integration landscape, reducing point-to-point complexity and improving reusability and resilience.
• Define and govern integration patterns, standards, and principles (e.g., event based, API-led, canonical data models).
• Act as a trusted architecture authority on Workday and other HCM capabilities, constraints, and best fit use cases.
• Guide decisions on where to standardise vs. extend, and when not to customise.
• Serve as a key contributor to architecture governance forums, design reviews, and investment discussions.
• Provide clear, defensible recommendations to senior HR, Digital, and Architecture stakeholders, grounded in principles, not preferences.
• Ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture guardrails, data principles (e.g., FAIR), and regulatory expectations (e.g., SOX where applicable).
• Maintain architectural artefacts in enterprise repositories (e.g., capability maps, solution views, spider diagrams, integration diagrams).
• Collaborate with HR Product Owners, Business Partners, Enterprise Architecture, Data, Security, and external vendors.
• Translate complex architectural topics into clear, business relevant narratives for senior stakeholders (e.g., CHRO-level discussions).
• Influence delivery partners to build simpler, more sustainable solutions, not just technically correct ones.

What you'll need

• 12-14 years of experience in solution and/or integration architecture, with significant exposure to complex HR technology landscapes.
• Deep hands-on experience with Workday and other HCM Tools (Core HR, Talent, Learning, Integrations).
• Strong grounding in enterprise architecture principles, including capability modelling, platform strategy, and technology lifecycle management.
• Proven experience simplifying large, fragmented integration landscapes in a global enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of HR data domains, integration patterns, and downstream consumers (analytics, payroll, identity, learning, etc.).

Nice to have

• Experience working within global, regulated enterprises with strong governance expectations.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow HRSD, IAM/PAM, data platforms, or integration middleware.
• Experience contributing to or operating within a formal architecture governance model.
• Ability to balance strategic architecture thinking with pragmatic delivery realities.
• Systems thinker with a strong bias for simplification and clarity.
• Comfortable challenging "because we always did it this way".
• Trusted advisor who can influence without authority.
• Able to operate at both deep technical and executive narrative levels.
• Values long-term architectural health over short-term fixes.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru Campus 31.
• Job posting end date: 2026-11-09.