City/State
Norfolk, VAWork Shift
First (Days)Overview:
OverviewThe HR Technology Architect serves as a strategic and techno-functional partner across Human Resources, helping translate HR business needs into thoughtful, scalable technology solutions. This role requires a strong understanding of end-to-end HR business processes combined with deep knowledge of Workday and the broader HR technology ecosystem.
The ideal candidate is naturally curious and solution-oriented, with the ability to look beyond the initial request, ask the right “why” questions, understand the underlying business problem, and recommend solutions that support both immediate needs and long-term HR strategy.
This individual will partner closely with HR, HR Technology, IT, and other enterprise stakeholders to evaluate business processes, identify opportunities for improvement, and architect solutions across the employee lifecycle. The role will help guide solution design, integrations, technology decisions, and architecture standards while ensuring solutions are scalable, sustainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture.
Experience successfully designing and delivering HR technology solutions within a healthcare environment is highly valued.
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field preferred.
- Relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree requirements.
Certification/Licensure
- Workday certifications or relevant architecture/technology certifications preferred.
Experience
- 8+ years of relevant experience with a degree or 10+ years of relevant experience without a degree.
- Demonstrated experience architecting and delivering technology solutions across end-to-end HR business processes, such as Talent Acquisition, Core HCM, Compensation, Benefits, Payroll, Time and Absence, Talent/Performance, and employee lifecycle processes.
- Strong Workday experience required, with demonstrated ability to understand how Workday capabilities, business processes, integrations, data, security, and downstream systems work together within a broader HR technology ecosystem.
- Demonstrated experience operating in a techno-functional capacity, translating HR business challenges and requirements into scalable technical solutions rather than focusing solely on system configuration or development.
- Experience designing HR technology architecture, integrations, and solutions across multiple systems and partnering with HR, technology, security, data, and other enterprise stakeholders.
- Experience delivering HR technology solutions in a healthcare organization or similarly complex environment preferred.
Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
•Pet Insurance
•Legal Resources Plan
•Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.
Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.
In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.
For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:
Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of relevant experience with a bachelor's degree, or 10+ years without a degree
- Experience architecting and delivering technology solutions across end-to-end HR business processes
- Strong Workday experience
- Experience understanding Workday capabilities, business processes, integrations, data, security, and downstream systems
- Experience operating in a techno-functional capacity and translating HR business needs into scalable technical solutions
- Experience designing HR technology architecture, integrations, and solutions across multiple systems
- Experience partnering with HR, technology, security, data, and enterprise stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
- Workday or relevant architecture/technology certifications
- Experience delivering HR technology solutions in a healthcare organization or similarly complex environment
Sentara Healthcare Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sentara Healthcare and has not been reviewed or approved by Sentara Healthcare.
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Parental & Family Support — Four weeks of paid parental leave at full base pay and two weeks of job‑protected family caregiver leave support major life and care needs. Emergency back‑up care and reimbursements for infertility, adoption, and surrogacy further bolster family support.
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Retirement Support — A 401(A) plan alongside 403(B)/401(K) employer matching is designed to strengthen long‑term financial security. Company‑paid life insurance with buy‑up options adds additional protection for families.
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Flexible Benefits — Choice of medical plan designs and dental/vision options enables tailoring coverage to individual needs. An annual election between tuition assistance and student‑loan repayment offers flexibility to align with financial or education priorities.
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What We Do
Sentara Healthcare celebrates a 130-year history of innovation, compassion and community benefit. Based in Norfolk, VA, Sentara is a diverse not-for-profit family of 12 hospitals, an array of integrated services and a team of nearly 30,000 strong on a mission to improve health every day. This mandate is pursued through a disciplined strategy to achieve Top 10% performance in key measures through shared best practices, transformation of primary care through clinical integration and strategic growth that adds value to the communities we serve in Virginia and North Carolina.








