Workday Prism Architect

About the company
A fast-growing healthcare organization is investing heavily in enterprise analytics after a recent big-bang Workday go-live. Workday Prism Analytics is already live and central to how leaders make decisions across Finance, Research, Grants, Supply Chain, and HR. They are now building long-term internal ownership and are looking for a Prism leader who can take what is in place, strengthen it, and elevate it into a best-in-class analytics platform.
Why join

• Permanent role with a long-term roadmap and real ownership, not a short-term clean-up
• Remote position with a highly collaborative East Coast team (interviews limited to East Coast based candidates)
• Prism is already live and high-visibility, meaning your work will have immediate impact
• Opportunity to shape governance, standards, and strategy across enterprise reporting
• Partner closely with senior Workday and platform leadership as the go-to Prism architect

The role
As the Workday Prism Architect, you will provide technical leadership and architectural oversight for Prism Analytics in a complex enterprise Workday environment. You will stabilize, validate, and optimize the existing Prism architecture, close reporting gaps post go-live, and ensure the platform is scalable, secure, and aligned with Workday best practices. This is ideal for someone who has inherited a system integrator built Prism solution and knows how to assess data models, correct course, and rebuild confidence in analytics.
Key responsibilities
Prism architecture and data modelling

• Own end-to-end Prism architecture across ingestion, transformation, modelling, and security
• Assess the current Prism data models, identify design gaps, inefficiencies, and technical debt
• Redesign or optimise Prism models to improve performance, scalability, and reporting usability
• Establish standards, reusable patterns, and best practices for Prism development and enhancement

Reporting and analytics enablement

• Partner with Finance, Research, Grants, HR, and Supply Chain stakeholders to address post go-live reporting gaps
• Enable enterprise reporting use cases that combine Workday and non-Workday data sources
• Collaborate with Workday Reporting, Adaptive Planning, and downstream analytics teams to align on a cohesive reporting strategy
• Support data validation, reconciliation, and audit readiness for Prism driven outputs

Post go-live stabilisation and transition

• Provide technical leadership as the organisation transitions from system integrator support to internal ownership
• Troubleshoot complex Prism issues including data latency, transformation logic, and performance concerns
• Partner with Integration and Extend teams to ensure reliable data pipelines and data quality into Prism

Required experience

• 7+ years in enterprise reporting, analytics, or data architecture, including significant hands-on Workday Prism experience
• Proven track record designing, supporting, stabilising, or remediating Prism in a post implementation environment
• Strong understanding of Workday data models across Financials, HCM, Payroll, Supply Chain, and or Grants
• Experience operating in complex, highly regulated environments such as healthcare, research, or higher education
• Ability to diagnose architecture issues introduced during implementation and recommend scalable, pragmatic solutions
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

Preferred experience

• Experience inheriting Prism implementations delivered by large system integrators
• Hands-on experience with Adaptive Planning data integration and reporting
• Familiarity with Workday Extend and Workday integration frameworks
• Background supporting grants management, research finance, or academic medical centres
• Experience contributing to enterprise reporting transformations or ERP modernisation initiatives