Solutions Architect

ABOUT BAKER BOTTSBaker Botts is a leading international law firm recognized for its deep understanding of the industries it serves. With offices across major global markets, the firm delivers sophisticated legal services while cultivating a collaborative, inclusive culture where both attorneys and professional staff contribute to client success and organizational excellence.

ABOUT THE ROLE
Baker Botts is seeking a Workday Solutions Architect with strong experience in Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), system implementations, integrations, data conversion, and HR technology transitions. This role is required to support a major HR technology transformation for an established AmLaw 100 U.
S. law firm with a highly collaborative team. This is a full-time, hybrid, exempt position based in Baker Botts’ Austin, Dallas, Houston, New York, or Washington, DC offices. This newly created role will work closely with key stakeholders and cross-functional teams across Human Resources, Payroll, Finance, IT, and business operations.
The Workday Solutions Architect will initially play a key role in the Firm’s transition to Workday, supporting Workday HCM implementation activities, data migration and validation, integrations, configuration, testing, reporting, dashboards, and business process optimization before taking broader ownership across the firm’s Human Resource and payroll systems. This is an excellent opportunity for a systems professional who combines strong Workday HCM implementation and integration experience with HRIS data analysis, reporting, technical problem-solving, and process optimization skills.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
Primary ResponsibilitiesServe as a key leader in the firm's enterprise HR technology transformation, guiding the successful migration from UKG to Workday and driving all phases of implementation, including strategy, requirements definition, process design, configuration, data conversion, testing, deployment, change management, and post-production stabilization, and post-go-live support.
Partner with senior HR, Payroll, IT, Finance, operational leaders, and external implementation partners to establish project priorities, align Workday capabilities with business objectives, and ensure successful delivery of critical implementation milestones.
Lead the assessment and redesign of existing UKG business processes, configurations, reporting, and integrations, developing a future-state Workday operating model that improves efficiency, scalability, compliance, and user experience.
Facilitate cross-functional requirements workshops and strategic discovery sessions, translating complex business needs into scalable Workday solutions while guiding stakeholders toward best practices and organizational standardization.
Provide leadership for data conversion and migration activities from UKG to Workday, including data mapping, transformation, cleansing, validation, reconciliation, testing, and issue resolution to ensure data accuracy and integrity.
Provide leadership for data conversion and migration activities, establishing data governance standards and overseeing data mapping, cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and issue resolution to ensure the integrity and accuracy of workforce and payroll data.
Lead development and execution of comprehensive testing strategies for the UKG-to-Workday transition, including unit testing, system/integration testing, user acceptance testing, parallel testing, regression testing, and production validation.
Identify and resolve discrepancies between UKG and Workday data, processes, workflows, and functionality, escalating issues as appropriate and coordinating with internal teams and Workday consultants to implement solutions.
Support the design, development, testing, and deployment of integrations between Workday and internal applications, payroll, benefits providers, financial systems, identity-management platforms, and other third-party systems.
Build, develop, maintain, and enhance Workday reports, dashboards, calculated fields, worksheets, and analytics required to replace or improve existing UKG reporting and provide accurate workforce information to HR, Payroll, Finance, leadership, and other stakeholders.
Evaluate existing UKG reporting and processes and identify opportunities to leverage Workday functionality, automation, and reporting capabilities to improve efficiency, data quality, and the overall employee and administrator experience.
Support data security and role-based access within Workday, ensuring appropriate controls are established and maintained in accordance with privacy, governance, confidentiality, and firm requirements.
Develop and maintain detailed documentation for Workday configurations, business processes, data conversion, integrations, testing results, reporting, security, procedures, and ongoing system support.
Serve as a trusted advisor and Workday subject matter expert during post-go-live operations, providing leadership in issue management, stabilization a