Principal Workday Architect (Compensation)

The role: Principal Workday Architect - Compensation

Location: Remote/France

The Principal Workday Architect will play a pivotal role in designing and governing the technical architecture of our Workday platform, reporting directly to the Manager of Workday Architects. This senior-level position focuses on delivering scalable, secure, and innovative Workday solutions that support business objectives and adhere to best practice process enablement and system design principles. The Principal Architect will collaborate closely with HR, IT, Finance, and business stakeholders to ensure the Workday ecosystem remains robust, compliant, and future-ready.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the design, configuration, and maintenance of core and advanced compensation modules, ensuring alignment with global business objectives and compliance standards
• Own end-to-end compensation-related system configuration such as compensation plans, including merit, bonus, and stock plans
• Serve as the subject matter expert for compensation architecture, advising senior leadership on complex Workday compensation processes and configuration
• Oversee global compensation cycles, including performance review integration, promotion cycles, and incentive plan administration, ensuring consistency and equity across regions
• Lead the end-to-end architectural design and technical oversight of Workday modules, with a focus on Core HCM, Advanced Compensation, Recruiting, Learning, Benefits, and Absence.
• Work with Workday Architects to develop and maintain architectural standards, frameworks, and patterns to ensure consistency, scalability, and alignment with enterprise goals.
• Evaluate and recommend enhancements to Workday configurations, integrations, and extensions, ensuring best practice system design and process enablement.

Strategic & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with HR, IT, Finance, and business units to translate complex business requirements into scalable Workday solutions.
• Guide teams through technical planning for Workday releases, ensuring new features are leveraged optimally and securely.

Technical Leadership & Governance

• Act as the final escalation point for complex architectural issues, troubleshooting and resolving design challenges in alignment with best practices.
• Oversee integration design and implementation, including Workday Extend, APIs, and third-party system connections (e.g., payroll, identity management).
• Ensure platform security, compliance, and audit readiness across all Workday modules.

The Person:

• 7+ years of hands-on Workday experience, including Compensation related architectural or solution design roles.
• Deep functional and technical knowledge of multiple Workday modules, especially Core HCM and Compensation.
• Experience in a large, multi-national organization with complex HR requirements.
• Strong understanding of integration methods, Workday Extend, calculated fields, and security best practices.
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into scalable, maintainable, and secure Workday solutions.
• Strategic and analytical thinking
• Solution-oriented and innovative mindset

The Details:

An attractive salary & benefits package

Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs

Excellent opportunities for continuous professional development

And More:

We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to:

Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our Lean Academy, Coursera® and online university.

Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for diversity, equity and inclusion.

Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.

What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!

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