# Partner AI Architect (oCIO)

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Pleasanton, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $138,600 USD - $208,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Partner AI Architect (oCIO) to join our team. As a technical authority, you will ensure that our partners' technical teams have the knowledge they need to design, position, and build on Workday's platform with confidence.

**About the Team** The Partner AI Experience team is Workday's dedicated investment in accelerating our most strategic GSI and Ecosystem partnerships. 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.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Serve as the primary technical authority for Workday's AI platform, integration architecture, and agentic capabilities within your pod.

- Ensure the partner's architects and technical teams have deep, current knowledge of Workday's platform and roadmap.

- Design and deliver architect-tier sessions and technical deep-dives that build genuine fluency within the partner's elite technical teams.

- Maintain authoritative knowledge of Workday's technical roadmap and translate upcoming releases into clear implications for the partner's architecture patterns, delivery standards, and solution portfolio.

- Architect reference solutions that articulate how Workday's unified platform fits into a client's broader technology and AI strategy.

- Define agent orchestration and governance patterns that leverage Workday's security framework, data model, and agent system of record.

- Equip the partner's technical teams with sharp, current competitive positioning, clearly articulating how Workday's native architecture and connected data model compares to competitors.

- Translate Workday's technical differentiation into language that resonates with CTOs, chief architects, and senior technology leaders.

- Bring partner-developed architectural patterns and technical innovations back to Workday's Forward Deployed and field teams.

- Serve as a first line of defense for the partner's technical teams, fielding architectural objections, platform questions, and complex technical issues.

- Represent Workday alongside the partner at joint industry events, technical forums, and architecture conferences.

**Requirements**

- 7+ years of enterprise software solution consulting, architecture, or hands-on experience supporting enterprise software applications.

- 5+ years of applied knowledge of cloud architecture, security, reporting, and integration standards.

- 5+ years of Workday experience.

- Experience working with or within Global System Integrators, large SIs, or strategic technology partners.

- Demonstrated domain expertise in oCIO-relevant capabilities such as platform architecture, AI/ML integration, agentic frameworks, or enterprise technology strategy.

**Nice to Have**

- Proven ability to engage credibly with GSI CTOs, chief architects, and offering development leads as a technical peer and trusted advisor.

- Strong command of Workday's technical architecture and AI platform.

- Experience designing and delivering reference architectures, technical playbooks, or integration standards that are adopted at scale within a partner or enterprise organization.

- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, outcome-oriented narratives for both technical and executive audiences.

- AI evangelist mindset with a practical understanding of how to architect and operationalize agentic AI in the enterprise.

**Salary** The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are: Primary Location: USA.CA.Pleasanton Primary Location Base Pay Range: $138,600 USD - $208,000 USD Additional US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $162,200 USD - $243,200 USD

## Skills

### Required
- cloud architecture
- security
- reporting
- integration standards
- Workday
- AI/ML integration
- agentic frameworks
- enterprise technology strategy

### Nice to have
- Workday technical architecture
- AI platform
- reference architectures
- technical playbooks

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