Workday Product Manager — Herndon, VA

PGZhd2 is collaborating with MANTECH to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

MANTECH seeks a highly skilled Workday Product Owner & Solution Architect to serve as the single point of accountability for the Workday platform across the enterprise. This is a hybrid position based out of Herndon, VA.

In this hybrid "player-coach" role, you will define the product vision, roadmap, priorities, and long-term strategy in partnership with HR, Finance, Payroll, Procurement, and Enterprise IT, while maintaining hands-on configuration, development, and architectural authority.

Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To

• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams while developing and maintaining a multi-year Workday roadmap aligned with enterprise objectives, compliance, and modernization goals.

• Manage the enhancement backlog, platform governance, and overall Workday ecosystem strategy.

• Define and oversee Workday architecture across HCM, Payroll, Financials, Procurement, Security, Reporting, and Integrations.

• Lead solution design reviews and govern integration architecture (APIs, EIBs, Core Connectors, Middleware) connecting Workday to Deltek Costpoint, ServiceNow, Okta, and data platforms.

• Personally configure and maintain business processes, security frameworks, calculated fields, dashboards, custom reports, and workflows.

• Manage tenant administration, environment migrations, and lead biannual release evaluation and testing.

• Provide player-coach leadership by driving strategic execution, mentoring team members on Workday best practices, and managing relationships with Workday and implementation partners.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years of enterprise applications experience.

• 7+ years of progressive experience directly configuring, architecting, or managing the Workday platform.

• 3+ years of experience serving in a Product Owner, Lead Architect, Solution Architect, Technical Lead, or Platform Owner role for Workday.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience delivering at least 1 enterprise Workday implementation or major platform transformation program.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience configuring Workday Security, Business Process Framework, Custom Reporting, Calculated Fields, and EIBs.

• 3+ years of experience architecting or managing integrations between Workday and enterprise ERP/Identity systems (such as Deltek Costpoint, Microsoft Azure AD/Entra ID, or ServiceNow).

Preferred Qualifications

• Workday Pro Certification in relevant functional or technical domains (HCM, Financials, Security, Integrations, Reporting).

• Hands-on configuration experience across both Workday HCM and Workday Financials modules.

• Experience supporting Workday within a government contracting, defense, or highly regulated corporate environment.

• Experience utilizing Workday Extend, Prism Analytics, or AI-driven platform capabilities.

• Experience working within Agile product delivery frameworks.

Clearance Requirements

• US Citizen

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%.

• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.

• Frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and external stakeholders. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.