Senior Manager - HCM Solutions Architect (Hybrid)

The Senior Manager – HCM Solutions Architect is responsible for designing and integrating end-to-end HR solutions using Workday and other platforms, ensuring architectural integrity and alignment with business priorities. The role involves leading architectural discovery, managing solution lifecycles, and providing people leadership to HR and business leaders. Candidates must have a bachelor’s degree, at least 5 years of HR technology experience, 3+ years of Workday reporting, and 1+ year of people leadership. Legal authorisation to work in the US is required. Preferred qualifications include 7+ years of HR technology experience, Workday Pro Certification, and familiarity with generative AI tools. The base salary ranges from $140,600 to $183,108, with eligibility for bonuses and long-term incentives.

The Senior Manager – HCM Solutions Architect at United Airlines is responsible for designing scalable, integrated HR solutions across Workday and related platforms, ensuring architectural integrity and alignment with business priorities. This role serves as the Solution Design Authority, leading high-impact initiatives, maintaining forward-looking roadmap awareness, and proactively proposing domain evolution strategies. The position requires strong people leadership, project management, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver business value. Compensation for this role ranges from $140,600 to $183,108, with eligibility for bonus, long-term incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, parental leave, 401(k), and paid time off.

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Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of experience in HR Technology and solutions design, including Workday Core HR, Compensation, Advanced Compensation and Security
• 3+ years of Workday reporting experience
• 1+ years of proven people leadership experience
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment or independently
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, tracking multiple projects and pivoting as needed between projects and from high-level to detailed viewpoints
• Ability to manage projects across all phases including scope, requirements, configuration, process definition, deployment and delivery
• Strong consultative, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally to solve business problems by adopting and leveraging technologies to their full potential
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in HR Technology and solutions design, including Workday Core HR, Compensation, Advanced Compensation and Security
• Workday Pro Certification in HCM Core, Advanced Compensation, or Project Management
• Demonstrates an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of generative AI tools and effectively leverages them to support research, analysis, content creation, and problem solving. Apply critical thinking to validate AI-generated outputs while adhering to organizational policies of responsible AI use, data privacy, and security

Qualifications

About the job:

The Senior Manager – HCM Solutions Architect serves as the Solution Design Authority for a designated functional domain within the HR Solutions ecosystem. This role designs end-to-end, scalable, and integrated solutions across Workday and adjacent platforms (e.g., Service Now, Phenom, Peakon), ensuring architectural integrity, cross-domain alignment, and long-term sustainability. The Architect maintains forward-looking roadmap awareness, proactively proposes domain evolution strategies, and ensures alignment between business priorities and architectural standards.

Core accountabilities / key responsibilities:

• Design end-to-end solutions across Workday and related platforms, define architectural standards, guardrails, and integration patterns, and serve as final design authority for high-impact initiatives
• Lead architectural discovery sessions, oversee solution lifecycle, and own project-level solution governance for major initiatives.
• Evaluate cross-domain dependencies and downstream impacts to ensure solution integrity and alignment across HR, Payroll, and Digital Technology.
• Provide structured project management oversight for complex domain initiatives, ensuring coordination and delivery across multiple stakeholders.
• Proactively identify architectural enhancements and future-state capabilities aligned to 3–5-year domain roadmap, and partner with HR COEs to shape domain solution priorities
• Serve as a trusted advisor to HR and business leaders, translating technical architecture into business value and ensuring alignment with organizational strategy.
• Provide people leadership through mentoring SMEs, elevating architectural rigor, and developing next-level talent capability within the team.

The base pay range for this role is $140,600.00 to $183,108.00.
The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.

You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.

United Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request an accommodation, contact [Job Accommodations@united.com](mailto:Job Accommodations@united.com)

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years of experience in HR Technology and solutions design, including Workday Core HR, Compensation, Advanced Compensation and Security
• 3+ years of Workday reporting experience
• 1+ years of proven people leadership experience
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment or independently
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, tracking multiple projects and pivoting as needed between projects and from high-level to detailed viewpoints
• Ability to manage projects across all phases including scope, requirements, configuration, process definition, deployment and delivery
• Strong consultative, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally to solve business problems by adopting and leveraging technologies to their full potential
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in HR Technology and solutions design, including Workday Core HR, Compensation, Advanced Compensation and Security
• Workday Pro Certification in HCM Core, Advanced Compensation, or Project Management
• Demonstrates an understanding of the capabilities and limitations of generative AI tools and effectively leverages them to support research, analysis, content creation, and problem solving. Apply critical thinking to validate AI-generated outputs while adhering to organizational policies of responsible AI use, data privacy, and security

About the job:

The Senior Manager – HCM Solutions Architect serves as the Solution Design Authority for a designated functional domain within the HR Solutions ecosystem. This role designs end-to-end, scalable, and integrated solutions across Workday and adjacent platforms (e.g., Service Now, Phenom, Peakon), ensuring architectural integrity, cross-domain alignment, and long-term sustainability. The Architect maintains forward-looking roadmap awareness, proactively proposes domain evolution strategies, and ensures alignment between business priorities and architectural standards.

Core accountabilities / key responsibilities:

• Design end-to-end solutions across Workday and related platforms, define architectural standards, guardrails, and integration patterns, and serve as final design authority for high-impact initiatives
• Lead architectural discovery sessions, oversee solution lifecycle, and own project-level solution governance for major initiatives.
• Evaluate cross-domain dependencies and downstream impacts to ensure solution integrity and alignment across HR, Payroll, and Digital Technology.
• Provide structured project management oversight for complex domain initiatives, ensuring coordination and delivery across multiple stakeholders.
• Proactively identify architectural enhancements and future-state capabilities aligned to 3–5-year domain roadmap, and partner with HR COEs to shape domain solution priorities
• Serve as a trusted advisor to HR and business leaders, translating technical architecture into business value and ensuring alignment with organizational strategy.
• Provide people leadership through mentoring SMEs, elevating architectural rigor, and developing next-level talent capability within the team.

Equal Opportunity Employer
The University of Missouri System is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal Opportunity is and shall be provided for all employees and applicants for employment on the basis of their demonstrated ability and competence without unlawful discrimination on the basis of their race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable state or federal law. This policy applies to all employment decisions including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, training, promotions, pay practices, benefits, disciplinary actions and terminations. For more information, visit https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/hr/eeo.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable state or federal law.

Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using

Responsibilities:

• Design end-to-end solutions across Workday and related platforms, define architectural standards, and serve as final design authority for high-impact initiatives.
• Lead efforts to oversee architectural discovery sessions, manage the solution lifecycle, and own project-level solution governance for major initiatives.
• Evaluate cross-domain dependencies and downstream impacts to ensure solution integrity and alignment across HR, Payroll, and Digital Technology.
• Provide structured project management oversight for complex domain initiatives, ensuring coordination and delivery across multiple stakeholders.
• Proactively identify architectural enhancements and future-state capabilities aligned to a 3–5-year domain roadmap, and partner with HR COEs to shape domain solution priorities.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to HR and business leaders, translating technical architecture into business value and ensuring alignment with organisational strategy.
• Provide people leadership through mentoring SMEs, elevating architectural rigour, and developing next-level talent capability within the team.

Skills:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in HR Technology and solutions design, including Workday Core HR, Compensation, Advanced Compensation, and Security.
• At least 3 years of Workday reporting experience is required.
• A minimum of 1 year of proven people leadership experience is necessary.
• Experience with platforms such as Service Now, Phenom, and Peakon is preferred.
• Workday Pro Certification in HCM Core, Advanced Compensation, or Project Management is preferred.
• Demonstrated understanding of generative AI tools and their application in research, analysis, and problem solving.
• Strong consultative, analytical, and problem-solving skills are essential.
• Ability to manage projects across all phases, including scope, requirements, configuration, process definition, deployment, and delivery.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally to solve business problems and leverage technologies to their full potential.

Education:

• A bachelor’s degree is required.