Workday Functional Architect

About the role

Revantage, a Blackstone Real Estate portfolio company, is a global provider of corporate services. With a corporate purpose of 'In Pursuit of Better,' Revantage delivers value-added services and world-class talent for Blackstone Real Estate portfolio companies, spanning diverse asset classes, including residential, logistics, office, hospitality and retail sectors. Headquartered in Chicago, the company's footprint extends across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Rooted in a commitment to collaboration and inclusivity, Revantage goes beyond traditional corporate services and acts as a trusted partner. Across offerings that include finance, technology, human resources and operations, Revantage proactively anticipates stakeholder needs, recruits exceptional talent and enables its business partners to thrive. What We Value: Our Culture Our people are our most important asset, enabling Blackstone portfolio companies and investments to scale and thrive. Together, we foster a workplace where everyone can be themselves, enabling them to do their best work. At Revantage, we have exceptional people who live our values and help us pursue better every day. We offer dynamic and meaningful work, competitive compensation, benefits and flexibility. We listen and take action to ensure our organization evolves to reflect our employees' voices and support an inclusive culture. Our demonstrated commitment to our people and collaborative culture have earned us numerous awards as a top employer. Our culture is built on our shared core values and commitment to be: Learners - We learn from our challenges and successes Leaders - We commit to continuous improvement Enthusiasts - We face challenges with optimism and believe anything is possible Achievers - We expect high standards for ourselves and enable the success of our teams Partners - We deliver value and positive impact to our partners Grow your career with us. As a member of our team, you'll gain hands-on experience in the real estate industry and benefit from a supportive environment that fosters personal and professional growth. Position Overview The Workday Functional Architect is Revantage's most senior Workday subject-matter authority. This role serves as the internal expert across the entire Workday HCM platform - spanning all functional domains we operate - and is the definitive escalation point for complex solutioning, architectural decisions, and cross-module design. Unlike a module-specific Product Owner, the Functional Architect holds a broad, horizontal view of the platform and is responsible for ensuring coherence, best practice adherence, and strategic alignment across every workstream and every PortCo we serve. This is a hands-on, high-impact role. You will lead solution design for complex and cross-cutting requirements, define configuration standards, govern integration architecture, advise on release strategy, and ensure the platform evolves in a way that is scalable, maintainable, and aligned to Blackstone's enterprise standards. You will be the trusted advisor to Product Owners, IT leadership, and senior HR stakeholders across the portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture & Solutioning
• Serve as the highest-level internal Workday authority across Core HCM, Compensation, Advanced
• Compensation, Recruiting, Talent, Learning, Benefits, US Payroll, Onboarding, People Analytics, Workday Help, and Peakon.
• Lead solution design for complex, cross-module, and enterprise-wide requirements that span multiple
• PortCos, geographies, or functional domains.
• Define and govern configuration standards, design patterns, naming conventions, and architectural guardrails across the Workday tenant.
• Evaluate trade-offs between configuration, custom reporting, and integration approaches - making and documenting architectural decisions with clear rationale.
• Provide expert guidance on Workday's evolving product roadmap and assess the impact of bi-annual releases on the tenant architecture.
• Identify technical debt, consolidation opportunities, and areas where legacy design decisions need to be revisited or retired.
• Cross-Functional & PortCo Solutioning
• Act as the primary escalation resource for Product Owners when requirements exceed module-level complexity or require cross-domain coordination.
• Design scalable solutions that can be deployed across multiple PortCos without sacrificing the ability to accommodate entity-specific variation.
• Partner with HR leaders, Finance, Legal, and Compliance teams to translate business requirements into Workday architecture that is both technically sound and strategically aligned.
• Lead discovery and design workshops with PortCo stakeholders for high-complexity initiatives, new product rollouts, or structural changes.
• Integration & Data Architecture
• Closely partner with IT team to oversee integration architecture between Workday and third-party systems including but not limited to payroll providers, benefits c

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