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# Workday Certified HCM/Talent Architect

- **Company:** Accenture
- **Location:** Cleveland, OH, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $73,800.0 - $218,800.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Workday HCM, Workday
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/082323f8-7e86-49ac-9e40-2aa11280a5b7

## About the Role

* Workday Partner Certification
 * Minimum of 3 years of consulting or client-side experience, most recently in a Lead or similar level role
 * Minimum of 3 years of working of HCM Functional experience
 * Minimum of 3 years of Workday Implementations
 * Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years work experience). If Associate's Degree must have equivalent minimum 6 year work experience.

Bonus points if you have:

 * 6 years of Workday-related implementations
 * Demonstrate knowledge of the HR function & processes
 * Experience in Education or Government Workday implementations

## Description

As a Workday HCM/Talent Architect, your primary responsibilities may include:

 * Manage teams in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
 * Architect Workday the entire HCM solution to ensure that all work streams are cohesive and cross functional impacts are considered and mitigated
 * Formulate planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting strategies
 * Architect statements of work and/or client proposals
 * Architect and manage vendor relationships
 * Lead workshops for client education
 * Manage resources and budget on client projects
 * Serve as the escalation point for critical functional issue resolution
 * Provide subject matter expertise to aid in decision making related to the functional solution
 * Lead, mentor, counsel and manage performance metrics of project staff
 * Conduct working sessions with clients to gather, understand, and analyze business requirements.
 * Advise clients on industry standards and leading practices.
 * Understand and apply Workday and Accenture methodologies.
 * Provide the Delivery Lead with status updates and keep them apprised of overall project status.
 * Demonstrate strong client and stakeholder management to achieve project objectives
 * Ensure the client takes advantage of Workday best practices.
 * Support innovation through the creation of new industry leading methods and assets


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