Senior Manager, HR Digital Solutions Design
Role Overview
Technical people leader accountable for the architectural integrity, stability, governance, and extensibility of RBC's Workday platform.
Combines hands-on integration, configuration, security, and data work with solutions design and leadership of functional configuration, security, and data analysts.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Technical people leader accountable for the architectural integrity, stability, governance, and extensibility of RBC's Workday platform.
Combines hands-on integration, configuration, security, and data work with solutions design and leadership of functional configuration, security, and data analysts.
Leadership and design
- Prioritize team work across business-as-usual requests and project initiatives; build capability through cross-training and growth paths.
- Promote documentation, peer review, and knowledge sharing.
- Own Workday functional design standards for business processes, security groups, data model, and integrations.
- Define reusable design patterns; review configuration, tenant customizations, and integrations for fit, scalability, and risk.
- Lead complex cross-module and cross-system initiatives, including module rollouts, M&A integrations, and AI/agent data access patterns.
Integration, platform, security, and data
- Co-design and oversee integrations using Workday Studio, EIBs, Core Connector, and Workday APIs or web services.
- Map dependencies across Workday, ServiceNow, SAP, downstream and vendor systems, and data platforms.
- Set tenant/environment strategy and release practices with IT, including regression and impact assessment.
- Maintain Workday-SAP security frameworks and oversee data synchronization, data quality, and extracts.
- Partner with HR and IT on governed data for reporting, Snowflake, AI agents, and downstream use; establish quality controls and peer review.
Collaboration
- Serve as senior technical escalation point for design conflicts, feasibility, and complex troubleshooting.
- Mentor Digital Solutions teams and partner with ServiceNow, IT, enterprise architecture, and security teams.
Required qualifications
- At least 7 years of Workday experience with expert-level technical capability.
- Practical experience with Phenom, VNDLY, ServiceNow, S/4 HANA, Microsoft access management, and other global enterprise applications.
- Prior people management experience, ideally leading technical or analyst teams.
- Deep Workday data model, security architecture, and business process framework expertise.
- Hands-on Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connector, PECI, RaaS, and API integration experience.
- Experience managing tenant and release strategy across a multi-module Workday deployment.
- Strong enterprise data governance and security knowledge; ability to design scalable solutions from ambiguous requirements.
- Excellent stakeholder communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred qualifications
- Workday certification in Integrations, HCM Core, Procure to Pay, or Security.
- AI or data platform experience, including pipelines to Snowflake or similar.
- Large, matrixed enterprise experience with formal change/release governance; exposure to ServiceNow or other HR service delivery platforms.
Success in the role
Use sound judgment to decline configuration requests that compromise long-term design integrity, with clear rationale.
Balance individual technical contribution with setting standards for others and documenting design decisions.
Work details
- Full-time regular salaried position with 37.5 work hours per week.
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