Workday Admin / Architect

Job Posting :

JR101150 Workday Admin / Architect (Open) Department :

Enterprise Applications, PM Position Type :

Regular Open Date :

07-29-2025 Close Date :

$115,000 - $125,000

Job Description :

The Workday Admin / Architect at Bowie State University is a strategic and technical leader responsible for designing, coordinating, and advancing the university’s use of the Workday HCM platform across all administrative functions. This role will collaborate with departments including Finance, HR, Academic Affairs, and Student Services to ensure effective system architecture, business process design, and integration across the institution. The Architect will also serve as the primary liaison with MD Connect, ensuring alignment with system-wide Workday initiatives and upgrades. The goal is to maximize institutional efficiency, leverage Workday capabilities, and enhance user experience and data quality.

Responsibilities :

• Design and maintain Bowie State’s Workday architecture across HCM, Finance, and other modules (as applicable)
• Serve as the systems integrator for all major Workday initiatives, upgrades, and new feature implementations
• Act as a liaison with USM MD Connect, coordinating on shared configuration, release planning, governance, and state-level compliance standards
• Collaborate with university departments to align Workday capabilities with institutional priorities, streamline operations, and eliminate manual processes
• Participate in business process reviews and recommend architectural solutions to improve data integrity, workflow automation, and cross-module efficiency
• Monitor upcoming Workday releases and recommend enhancement adoption strategies aligned with best practices in higher education
• Coordinate with Workday support teams, consultants, and technical staff to resolve complex configuration or integration issues
• Ensure system integrity, access security, and performance across Workday modules and integrations
• Provide architectural guidance on integrations with campus systems (e.g., student information systems, budgeting tools, identity management, etc.)
• Develop and maintain documentation of technical architecture, process flows, governance decisions, and system dependencies

Minimum Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

Conditions of Employment :

Additional Job Information :

Benefits include medical, dental, prescription, long-term disability, accidental death and dismemberment insurance and life insurance; paid time for paid sick leave, annual leave, and personal leave; 12 paid holidays per year, tuition remission; employer-funded pension and supplemental retirement account

Bowie State University shall not discriminate against any individual on the basis of race, color, religion, age, ancestry or national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, marital status or veteran status. All policies, programs, and activities of Bowie State University are and shall be in conformity with all pertinent Federal and state laws of nondiscrimination including, but not limited to : Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Age Discrimination Act, Sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Federal Executive Order No. 11375, and Article 49B of the Annotated Code of Maryland. This commitment applies in all areas and embraces faculty, staff, and students.

Equal opportunity of access to academic and related programs shall be extended to all persons. Bowie State University shall have as its firm objective equal opportunity in recruitment and hiring, rate of pay, all other promotions, training, retention and dismissals, for all employees and applicants for employment. The University will stress equal access for employees and applicants for employment to all programs and services provided by the University both on and off campus. The University will also provide equal opportunity and an atmosphere of nondiscrimination with respect to women and members of minority groups in all its operations. In addition, the University shall promote equal opportunity and equal treatment through a positive and continuing Affirmative Action Program.

The University makes, and will continue to make, reasonable accommodations to promote the employment of qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans, unless such accommodations would impose an undue hardship on the University's business.

In addition, employees and applicants will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion, or discrimination because they have engaged in, or may have engaged in, activities such as filing a complaint, assisting or participating in an investigation, compliance review or hearing, or opposing any act or practice made unlawful, or exercising any other right protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended or the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended.