[Hiring] Architect, ERP & People Systems @Evolent

Role Description

The ERP & People Systems Architect is the design authority for Evolent's finance and people systems and their move to a headless, AI-enabled application experience where employees ask agents for HR and finance outcomes instead of navigating screens. This role is a hands-on individual contributor who defines target-state architecture, technical standards, reusable patterns, and architecture decisions, and validates them through proofs of concept before teams build.

• Partners with the Director across all aspects of delivery, including building, operating, and automating solutions.
• Owns architectural integrity and design quality.
• Works closely with Enterprise Architecture, Analytics, Security, Engineering, Finance, Talent, and business stakeholders.

Essential Functions

• Define the target-state architecture for the ERP and people systems portfolio and its connected systems.
• Decide whether needs are met through configuration, integration, or extension.
• Publish standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns.
• Own the integration architecture and inventory for Workday and connected systems.
• Define system-of-record boundaries and data ownership for worker, organization, and finance data.
• Design ERP security architecture with controls that produce SOX and audit evidence.
• Set cloud SaaS standards for tenant and environment strategy.
• Design the AI-enabled headless ERP experience.
• Define responsible-AI requirements for AI features and agents.
• Build proofs of concept and reference implementations.
• Specify nonfunctional requirements for performance, resilience, observability, and testability.
• Identify, classify, and size technical debt across architecture, security, integrations, and data models.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise applications, ERP, or solution architecture.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in Workday covering business-process and security configuration, reporting, integration frameworks, tenant strategy, and release cycles.
• Hands-on integration design across REST and SOAP APIs, event-driven and batch patterns.
• Strong SQL and data-modeling skills.
• Working knowledge of internal controls and privacy for financial and people data.
• Experience designing automation or AI-enabled solutions for enterprise business processes.
• Ability to produce architecture artifacts.
• Ability to explain architecture trade-offs in cost, risk, control, and user impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• Architecture experience across both Workday HCM and Financials, and with Adaptive Planning, VNDLY, or Salesforce CRM.
• Experience with Workday's embedded AI and agent capabilities.
• Python or similar scripting for prototypes, data validation, or automation.
• Experience defining evaluation, prompt-injection testing, observability, and cost controls for production AI agents.
• Experience with Microsoft Power BI, integration platforms, or identity integrations with Microsoft Entra ID or Active Directory.
• Experience as the architect on an ERP implementation, major module expansion, or integration modernization.
• Experience in healthcare or another regulated industry.

Preferred Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field.

Preferred Certifications

• Workday Pro certifications.
• Enterprise, cloud, integration, data, security, or AI architecture certifications.

General Performance Criteria

• Maintain hands-on depth in Workday, integrations, data, security, and AI.
• Write decisions and designs that delivery teams can build from without rework.
• Understand how Finance and Talent processes, data, and controls work at Evolent.
• Be accountable for the architectural integrity of ERP and people systems.
• Keep architecture from slowing delivery.
• Earn adoption of standards and patterns from delivery teams, peer architects, and business owners.

Technical Requirements

• High speed internet over 10 Mbps.
• Ability to plug in directly to the home internet router for call center employees.

Company Description

Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with the most complex and costly health conditions. Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, flexibility, and autonomy. Diversity and inclusion are core to our business.