3 days ago
Base Salary
$247k - $432k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural evolution from a low-code application framework to an open, headless AI developer toolchain.
- Define enterprise AI primitives, API primitives, SDKs, developer experiences, and target-state platform architecture.
- Establish technical roadmaps, eventing models, multi-tenant integration patterns, and infrastructure standards for high availability and low latency.
- Serve as the primary technical authority for distributed systems, platform scalability, and complex architectural tradeoffs.
- Advise executive leadership, R&D, strategic customers, platform partners, and the Chief Architect.
- Mentor architects and senior engineering talent while establishing architecture reviews, development standards, and engineering excellence practices.
- Align Product, Engineering, R&D, and adjacent platform teams around architectural blueprints, execution plans, and cross-platform interoperability.
- Lead joint architecture initiatives with strategic ecosystem partners.
Requirements
- 15+ years of distributed systems architecture experience in multi-tenant developer APIs, SaaS/PaaS platforms, or equivalent.
- BA, BS, or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- Proven experience architecting AI/LLM-native developer frameworks, primitives, or tool-calling interfaces.
- Deep experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous data streaming, and low-latency messaging patterns.
- Expertise in headless developer toolchains, SDK generation pipelines, CLI and MCP tools, and federated API architectures.
- Experience steering engineering teams through significant technical and operational transformations.
- Demonstrated strategic business judgment balancing architecture, time-to-market, revenue, costs, and customer outcomes.
- Deep expertise in API security, multi-tenant isolation, RBAC/ABAC, policy-as-code, and runtime guardrails.
- Strong technical ambassadorship experience with executive customers, ecosystems, and major industry conferences.
Benefits
- Flexible work model requiring at least 50% of each quarter in the office or in the field with customers, prospects, and partners.
- The role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus and annual refresh stock grants.
- Comprehensive benefits are available through Workday.
- Primary location is Pleasanton, California, with additional US locations and Colorado pay considerations.
- Application deadline is November 12, 2026.
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About Workday
Workday builds cloud-based enterprise applications for human capital management and financial management, including payroll, time tracking, expenses, planning, and procurement, sold on a subscription basis with professional services. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it is a public company traded on NASDAQ as WDAY. Organizations worldwide use Workday to unify HR and finance data, automate processes, and apply AI to workforce and financial operations.