Putting people first, every day BDO is a firm built on a foundation of positive relationships with our people and our clients. Each day, our professionals provide exceptional service, helping clients with advice and insight they can trust. In turn, we offer an award-winning environment that fosters a people-first culture with a high priority on your personal and professional growth.

Your Opportunity

As a Workday Solution Architect, you will be responsible for leading solution design, architecture governance, and solution delivery oversight across Workday implementation, optimization, and transformation engagements.

The Solution

Architect serves as the bridge between business objectives and technical solutions, ensuring cohesive designs that deliver measurable value for clients while supporting the growth of BDO's Workday practice. This is a net recent role and offers a adaptable hybrid work arrangement. Lead end-to-end solution architecture for Workday implementation, enhancement, and transformation engagements.

Serve as the design authority across all project workstreams, ensuring solution decisions align with client objectives and leading practices. Evaluate cross-functional impacts of solution decisions and ensure alignment across Workday modules, integrations, reporting, and data requirements. Provide executive-level guidance and recommendations on Workday capabilities, roadmap considerations, and transformation opportunities.

Identify project risks and develop mitigation strategies throughout the project lifecycle. Provide quality oversight across configuration, testing, data conversion, integrations, and deployment activities. Partner with project leadership to manage scope, risks, dependencies, and issue resolution.

Ensure successful transition to support and knowledge transfer activities following deployment.



Mentor consultants and emerging solution architects to strengthen the Workday practice. Effective governance of architecture, quality, and risk management. 7+ years of Workday implementation, advisory, or solution architecture experience. ~ Experience leading enterprise Workday HCM and/or Finance transformation initiatives across multiple workstreams. ~ Demonstrated expertise in solution design, business process transformation, integrations, reporting, and data considerations. ~ Experience leading client-facing engagements and managing senior stakeholder relationships. ~ Active appropriate Workday certifications preferred. ~ Consulting experience within a professional services organization considered an asset. ~ Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

This recognition is a milestone we’re thrilled to add to our collection of awards for both experienced and student talent experiences. At BDO, our people experience is guided by three core pillars—Do work with genuine care, Do what matters with purpose, and Do what’s next - shaping how we support our people, serve our clients, and grow together. We help you become a better professional within our services, industries, and markets with extensive opportunities for learning and development.

We support your achievement of personal goals outside of the office and making an impact on your community. We encourage innovation and forward thinking, empowering you to embrace what’s next and help shape the future of our firm.



Where company meets community.

BDO is actively involved in our communities by supporting local charity initiatives. We support staff with local and national events where you will be given the chance to contribute to your community. We pay for performance with competitive total cash compensation that recognizes and rewards your contribution.

We provide comprehensive benefits from day one, and a flexible personal time off policy. We recognize and celebrate the unique experiences, identities, and perspectives that each of us bring – and that these experiences strengthen how we work together. All BDO personnel are expected to spend some of their time working in the office, at the client site, and virtually unless accommodations or alternative work arrangements are in place.

Our model is a blended approach designed to support the flexible needs of our people, the firm and our clients. It’s about creating work experiences that meet everyone’s needs and providing flexibility to adjust when, where and how we work to meet the expectations of our role. It reflects our shared values and commitments and includes guiding principles to help us make ethical decisions and maintain trust with each other, the client, and the public.

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When it comes to our people, we believe in helping you unlock possibilities, build your passions, and grow your competitive edge. We foster inclusive ways to thinking and celebrate diversity among all contributors.

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