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Description
Worldwide Grocery Stores Tech is seeking a Sr. Workday Application Architect to join our Workday Technology team.
The Sr. Workday Application Architect for Finance is a technical leadership role responsible for designing, architecting, and delivering solutions across the Workday Financial Management platform. This position serves as the technical lead for managing solution design and delivery for Finance applications, with primary focus on Workday Financial modules including Financial Accounting, Banking and Settlement, Business Asset Management, Capital Projects, Supplier Management, and related financial processes.
Key job responsibilities
- Serve as technical lead for Workday Finance solution design and delivery across Financial Accounting, Banking and Settlement, Supplier Management, Business Assets, and Capital Projects.
- Participate in architecture reviews to ensure optimized financial systems and translate financial technology strategies into technical requirements.
- Understand High-Level Designs from Enterprise Solution Architects and collaborate with Product Owners and Developers to create/approve Low-Level Designs.
- Design and architect Workday financial integrations and configurations, including banking platforms, payment processors, and accounting systems.
- Manage technical planning, development, and troubleshooting of financial integrations supporting General Ledger, AP, AR, Asset Management, and financial close processes.
- Assist with effort estimation by assessing complexity, risk, and dependencies for financial projects.
- Provide expertise in evaluating finance applications portfolio and recommend technical releases supporting financial business needs.
- Analyze and recommend enhancements to streamline financial operations and month-end close activities.
- Maintain knowledge of Financial Security & Compliance, SOX Controls, Audit requirements, and segregation of duties.
- Develop coding standards and technical documentation for financial integrations and processes.
A day in the life
You architect financial solutions, designing integrations between Workday Financials and banking platforms, payment processors, and accounting systems. You lead technical design sessions for month-end close acceleration, create automation for AP/AR processes, and develop solutions for capital project tracking and financial reporting. Your work includes architecting GL posting frameworks, designing supplier payment workflows, and building real-time financial data integrations that drive business insights. You monitor critical financial integrations, resolve banking connectivity issues, troubleshoot complex data flows, and coordinate with Audit teams on financial controls. Key stakeholders include Controllers, AP/AR teams, Treasury, FP&A, and Procurement.
About the team
Join the Workday Technology team transforming financial operations at Amazon Worldwide Grocery supporting Whole Foods Market. Our mission is to deliver technical solutions that accelerate month-end close, automate AP/AR processes, and provide real-time financial insights across the enterprise. We partner with Controllers, Treasury, FP&A, and Procurement teams to architect solutions for General Ledger, banking integrations, and supplier management. Our culture emphasizes technical rigor, financial accuracy, and SOX compliance. Team members hold Workday Financial certifications including FDM and actively share expertise across projects. We balance strategic design work with operational support, ensuring financial systems meet audit requirements and business objectives.
Basic Qualifications
- 5 years of developing end-to-end analytics solutions, including system configuration, model building, data security, and reporting experience
- Experience identifying and resolving complex issues
- Experience with architecture or system engineering
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development life cycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience with Workday Finance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers, or experience debugging, profiling, and implementing best software engineering practices in large-scale systems
- Experience analyzing and troubleshooting RESTful web API calls, or experience operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
- Knowledge of industry standard test automation tools and experience developing product test frameworks
- Experience using data, reporting, or tools to measure performance and make adjustments accordingly
- 5 years of experience in Financial business/systems analysis role, solutions architect, or related experience.
- Workday certifications/knowledge required: Financial Accounting, Banking and Settlement, Supplier Accounts, Customer Accounts, Business Assets, Projects, Security, Integrations, Reporting, Extend, PRISM, Accounting Center, Adaptive Planning.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $122,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $210,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Salary : $122,000 - $210,800