Workday
Principal Partner AI Architect
$139K–$243K
USA, CA, Pleasanton +2 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- USA, CA, Pleasanton
Workday USA Offices
USA Remote - Experience
- Principal: 7+ years in enterprise software solution consulting, architecture, or hands-on application support; 5+ years in applied cloud architecture, security, reporting, and integration; 5+ years of Workday experience. Senior: 5+ years, 3+ years, and 3+ years, respectively.
About the job
Serve as the technical authority for Workday’s AI platform and architecture within a strategic partner team, enabling partner practices to design, position, and build integrated Workday solutions.
What you'll do
- Prepare partner technical teams through architecture deep-dives, roadmap guidance, and technical enablement.
- Design reference architectures, agent orchestration and governance patterns, and cross-platform agent integrations.
- Develop partner-scale demos, code accelerators, integration playbooks, and technical materials; coordinate with Workday teams and support major deals.
What they ask for
- For the Principal level: 7+ years of enterprise software solution consulting, architecture, or hands-on application support; for Senior: 5+ years.
- For Principal: 5+ years of applied cloud architecture, security, reporting, and integration knowledge; for Senior: 3+ years.
- For Principal: 5+ years of Workday experience; for Senior: 3+ years.
- Experience with GSIs, large SIs, or strategic technology partners, plus oCIO-related domain expertise such as platform architecture, AI/ML integration, agentic frameworks, or enterprise technology strategy.
Nice to have
- Experience designing reference architectures, technical playbooks, or integration standards adopted at scale.
- Knowledge of Sana, Data Cloud, and Workday integration frameworks, or equivalent experience with a track record of ramping up quickly.
Pay
$138,600 USD - $208,000 USD (base salary); $162,200 USD - $243,200 USD (base salary); $162,200 USD - $243,200 USD (base salary, Colorado)
Tools
Workday, Sana, Data Cloud, A2A, MCP, API, LLMs, RAG
AI focus
Enable partners to architect and operationalize enterprise agentic AI, including AI platform strategy, agent orchestration and governance, and agent integration across ecosystems.
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