Principal Partner AI Architect

Your work days are brighter here.

We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. The minute you join, you’ll feel it. Not just in the products we build, but in how we show up for each other. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We’re in this together, tackling big challenges with bold ideas and genuine care. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive. Whether you're building smarter solutions, supporting customers, or creating a space where everyone belongs, you’ll do meaningful work with Workmates who’ve got your back. In return, we’ll give you the trust to take risks, the tools to grow, the skills to develop and the support of a company invested in you for the long haul. So, if you want to inspire a brighter work day for everyone, including yourself, you’ve found a match in Workday, and we hope to be a match for you too.

About the Team

The Partner AI Experience team is Workday’s dedicated investment in accelerating our most strategic GSI and Ecosystem partnerships. Working alongside the Global Partner Organization (GPO), this team serves as the technical, functional, and quantitative experts, providing the enablement infrastructure, product intelligence, and go-to-market support that allows our partners to build and sell Workday AI with confidence and speed.

Each pod is aligned to a single strategic GSI or Ecosystem Motion and staffed with specialists across the oCIO, oCHRO, and oCFO domains, along with a dedicated Business Value Architect. The pod works across the partner’s solution consulting teams, architects, offering leaders, and value desks to ensure the partner’s Workday practice is equipped, differentiated, and positioned to grow.

About the Role

As a Partner AI Architect (oCIO) at the Principal or Senior Partner Enterprise Architect level, you are the technical authority within your pod for Workday’s AI platform, integration architecture, and agentic capabilities. Your focus is ensuring the partner’s most technical teams — architects, CTOs, and offering developers — have the depth of understanding they need to design, position, and build on Workday’s platform with confidence, well before their customers ask the questions.

Your work shapes how the partner’s technical practice thinks about and builds on Workday, so that when platform and agentic decisions are being made at clients, Workday is already the assumed foundation. You will translate complex Workday architecture into clear, credible narratives for CTO-level audiences, design reference architectures the partner can own, and ensure the partner’s demo environments reflect the full, integrated power of Workday’s platform. You will coordinate closely with the Forward Deployed Partner Architect aligned to your GSI, who engages directly on the partner’s largest Workday deals.

This role aligns to the Principal Enterprise Architect job skills and core skills, emphasizing enterprise architecture leadership, strategic influence, deep technical expertise, and cross-organizational collaboration.

Technical Practice Readiness

Serve as the primary technical authority for Workday’s AI platform, integration architecture (A2A, MCP), agentic capabilities, and Data Cloud within your pod.