Job Summary:
Chevron is seeking a Workforce Management (WFM) Solution Architect to provide end-to-end solution architecture for Workforce Management capabilities across the HR Digital Platform. The role involves ensuring solutions are scalable, compliant, and aligned with enterprise architecture and governance standards in a highly regulated U.S. environment.
Responsibilities:
• Solution architecture (Workday + Integrations): Own end-to-end WFM architecture across Workday and integrated systems; translate business, regulatory, and payroll requirements into scalable designs; define and maintain WFM patterns, standards, and design principles; ensure architectural consistency across enhancements, projects, and production support.
• Compliance & Risk: Design solutions compliant with U.S. federal/state/local labor regulations; partner with Legal, Payroll, HR policy, and risk teams to assess impacts and options; identify architectural/cybersecurity risks and mitigation strategies early; execute architectural reviews and ensure adherence to engineering/design standards.
• Delivery & Governance: Provide architectural guidance through planning, building, testing, and deployment; participate in design reviews and architecture forums; review/approve solution designs, integration approaches, and data flows; recommend technologies/tools to improve performance, scalability, maintainability; resolve technical challenges and manage technical debt; support go-live readiness, operational handoff, and production stability.
• Platform collaboration & stakeholder engagement: Partner with Integration, Security, and Data teams on resilient designs; influence platform decisions impacting WFM; communicate complex architecture to technical and non-technical audiences; support escalations affecting WFM solutions.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 8+ years in HR technology or enterprise application architecture
• demonstrated Workforce Management and/or payroll-adjacent solution design
• experience operating in regulated U.S. labor/payroll environments
• proven ability to lead solution architecture across complex, multi-system landscapes
• strong knowledge of Workday Time & Absence and WFM concepts
• understanding of HR processes across the employee lifecycle and how they map Workday business processes and security
• hands-on Workday configuration across multiple HCM modules (implementations, redesigns, integrations, and large enhancements)
• familiarity with Workday architecture principles and governance
• Workday Pro/certifications preferred
• Workday integration patterns and data flows
• time-to-pay and payroll integration concepts
• system/solution design, APIs/integration design, foundational data architecture, security-by-design, and non-functional requirements (scalability, performance, resiliency, maintainability)
• strong analytical/problem-solving
• balances compliance, business needs, and technical constraints
• clear communication and stakeholder management
• operates with architectural authority and accountability
Preferred:
• Large-scale HR transformations or platform modernization programs
• Unionized labor exposure and complex time rules
• Experience supporting acquisitions/divestitures or large workforce changes
• Prior Solution Architect or Technical Architect experience in HR or Payroll domains
• comfortable operating in fast-changing environments and creating clarity out of ambiguity
Company:
Chevron is an integrated energy and technology company that believes affordable, reliable, and ever-cleaner energy. Founded in 1879, the company is headquartered in San Ramon, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.