GEICO
Workday Financial Senior Solution Architect/Tech Lead *Hybrid*
GEICO, New York, New York, us, 10261
Workday Financial Senior Solution Architect/Tech Lead
GEICO is seeking an experienced Workday Financial Senior Solution Architect that will function as a Tech Lead. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co‑creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.
Our Senior Solution Architect (formal role is Senior Staff Engineer) works with other Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical and functional expertise in Financial and Spend Mgmt. and has experience across multiple companies to introduce best practices leveraging their broad and deep knowledge of various ERPs (e.g. Workday, PeopleSoft; Oracle EBS; Oracle Cloud; Hyperion; or SAP).
Base Pay Range $105,001.00/yr – $280,004.00/yr
Position Responsibilities
Focus initially on the Finance domain and provide technical and thought leadership before helping the enterprise drive technology solutioning.
Leverage deep technical and functional finance systems expertise to drive towards the right solution to support the department and GEICO’s current and future needs.
Engage in cross‑functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle.
Provide support for Workday inbound and outbound integration issues, changes to existing integrations, and develop new integrations.
Lead design sessions with peers to ensure systems are well designed, efficient, and meet business expectations.
Leverage experience with various ERPs (e.g., Workday, PeopleSoft, Oracle EBS, Oracle Cloud, Hyperion, or SAP) to enhance existing applications or build new ones to support GEICO’s Finance organization.
Leverage deep understanding of Finance, Accounting, and Management Reporting to drive solutions to meet business requirements.
Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems.
Develop and execute technical software development strategy across the Finance Tech.
Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions.
Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know‑how of our engineering and product community; influence and educate executives.
Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.
Qualifications
10+ years of finance domain experience with industry‑leading ERP solutions (e.g., implementing and supporting Workday, PeopleSoft, Oracle EBS, Oracle Cloud, Hyperion, or SAP).
8+ years of experience with architecture and design of financial ERP implementation.
Deep finance domain expertise to interpret finance requirements into solutions.
Strong understanding of accounting processes, management reporting philosophies, and cross‑finance practices to ensure data, integrations, and solutions are well designed.
Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap.
Ability to communicate and work directly with business leaders across technology and finance.
Experience with designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining solutions for complex integrations.
Experience building systems that are scalable, resilient, and highly available.
Experience working with data marts, repositories, or data lakes to support enterprise functions.
Understanding of system monitoring concepts and tooling.
Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production.
Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches.
Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real‑time communication).
Ability to work independently and in a team‑oriented collaborative environment.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent education or work experience.
Annual Salary $105,001.65 – $280,004.40 (annual range)
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement The GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
Reasonable Accommodation Statement GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates.
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Our Senior Solution Architect (formal role is Senior Staff Engineer) works with other Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical and functional expertise in Financial and Spend Mgmt. and has experience across multiple companies to introduce best practices leveraging their broad and deep knowledge of various ERPs (e.g. Workday, PeopleSoft; Oracle EBS; Oracle Cloud; Hyperion; or SAP).
Base Pay Range $105,001.00/yr – $280,004.00/yr
Position Responsibilities
Focus initially on the Finance domain and provide technical and thought leadership before helping the enterprise drive technology solutioning.
Leverage deep technical and functional finance systems expertise to drive towards the right solution to support the department and GEICO’s current and future needs.
Engage in cross‑functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle.
Provide support for Workday inbound and outbound integration issues, changes to existing integrations, and develop new integrations.
Lead design sessions with peers to ensure systems are well designed, efficient, and meet business expectations.
Leverage experience with various ERPs (e.g., Workday, PeopleSoft, Oracle EBS, Oracle Cloud, Hyperion, or SAP) to enhance existing applications or build new ones to support GEICO’s Finance organization.
Leverage deep understanding of Finance, Accounting, and Management Reporting to drive solutions to meet business requirements.
Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems.
Develop and execute technical software development strategy across the Finance Tech.
Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions.
Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know‑how of our engineering and product community; influence and educate executives.
Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.
Qualifications
10+ years of finance domain experience with industry‑leading ERP solutions (e.g., implementing and supporting Workday, PeopleSoft, Oracle EBS, Oracle Cloud, Hyperion, or SAP).
8+ years of experience with architecture and design of financial ERP implementation.
Deep finance domain expertise to interpret finance requirements into solutions.
Strong understanding of accounting processes, management reporting philosophies, and cross‑finance practices to ensure data, integrations, and solutions are well designed.
Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap.
Ability to communicate and work directly with business leaders across technology and finance.
Experience with designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining solutions for complex integrations.
Experience building systems that are scalable, resilient, and highly available.
Experience working with data marts, repositories, or data lakes to support enterprise functions.
Understanding of system monitoring concepts and tooling.
Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production.
Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches.
Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real‑time communication).
Ability to work independently and in a team‑oriented collaborative environment.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent education or work experience.
Annual Salary $105,001.65 – $280,004.40 (annual range)
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement The GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
Reasonable Accommodation Statement GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates.
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