Staff HR Technology Solutions Architect

OpenGov is the leader in AI and ERP solutions for local and state governments in the U.S. More than 2,000 cities, counties, state agencies, school districts, and special districts rely on the OpenGov Public Service Platform to operate efficiently, adapt to change, and strengthen the public trust. Category-leading products include enterprise asset management, procurement and contract management, accounting and budgeting, billing and revenue management, permitting and licensing, and transparency and open data. These solutions come together in the OpenGov ERP, allowing public sector organizations to focus on priorities and deliver maximum ROI with every dollar and decision in sync. Learn about OpenGov’s mission to power more effective and accountable government and the vision of high-performance government for every community at O penGov.com . Job Summary: The Staff HR Technology Architect is the senior technical authority for OpenGov’s HR technology ecosystem, responsible for the architecture, integration design, and long-term technical direction of the systems that manage employee data across the entire employee lifecycle. Based in Pune and reporting to the Director of Enterprise Applications and Engineering, this individual-contributor role sets the technical vision for the Workday platform and the broader HR application portfolio, ensuring the ecosystem is scalable, secure, compliant, and aligned to the needs of a global workforce across the US and India. We are looking for a seasoned architect with deep domain and technical expertise across the Workday platform and the adjacent, integrated systems that make up the HR technology ecosystem — spanning payroll, benefits, talent management, talent acquisition, onboarding and offboarding, employee engagement, compliance, and HR operations. This is a hands-on, staff-level individual contributor with a dotted-line leadership mandate: no direct reports, but expected to guide and mentor HR application administrators, lead virtual teams on major initiatives, and influence the direction both technical and business teams take with HR technology. While the role is primarily architecture and design, it also carries hands-on technical delivery — the architect personally builds and delivers the most complex or high-risk integrations, configurations, and reports. The architect owns integration architecture and the HR data model end to end across best-of-breed systems, partners with the Manager, HR Technology on delivery, and serves as the design authority on data governance, security, and emerging AI and automation across the stack. Responsibilities: Technical Architecture & Systems Design Own the end-to-end architecture of the HR technology ecosystem — Workday (Core HCM, Payroll, Benefits, Absence, Time Tracking, Compensation, Recruiting, Talent, Reporting, and Security) and the surrounding application portfolio — establishing design standards, patterns, and technical roadmaps. Own the architecture across a best-of-breed, multi-platform landscape — the core HRIS (Workday) plus payroll (e.g., ADP), applicant tracking (Ashby), employee engagement (CultureAmp), ERP (e.g., NetSuite), SSO/identity, compliance/training platforms, data-warehousing and BI tooling (e.g., Snowflake), and iPaaS/integration platforms (e.g., Workato) — ensuring the systems interoperate as a coherent whole. Define target-state architecture and multi-year technical roadmaps that scale with a growing, globally distributed workforce, balancing configuration, extensibility, and total cost of ownership. Evaluate new Workday releases, features, and third-party solutions; make build-vs-configure-vs-buy recommendations and lead architecture and design reviews. Provide deep, hands-on technical expertise across the ecosystem — anchored in the Workday stack (advanced configuration, the business process framework, calculated fields, security design, and complex reporting) and extending to adjacent platforms such as ADP, Ashby, Cultur