Architect, ERP & People Systems

About this role

Your Future Evolves Here

Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, we seek to connect the pieces of fragmented health care system and ensure people get the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.

Evolent employees enjoy work/life balance, the flexibility to suit their work to their lives, and autonomy they need to get things done. We believe that people do their best work when they're supported to live their best lives, and when they feel welcome to bring their whole selves to work. That's one reason why diversity and inclusion are core to our business.

Join Evolent for the mission. Stay for the culture.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Job Summary
The ERP & People Systems Architect is the design authority for Evolent's finance and people systems and their move to a headless, AI-enabled application experience where employees ask agents for HR and finance outcomes instead of navigating screens. Behind it, Workday HCM and Financials, Adaptive Planning, VNDLY, Salesforce CRM, and their payroll, benefits, banking, tax, identity, and data integrations remain the trusted systems of record. This role is a hands-on individual contributor who defines target-state architecture, technical standards, reusable patterns, and architecture decisions, and validates them through proofs of concept before teams build.
The Architect partners with the Director across all aspects of delivery, including building, operating, and automating solutions. The Architect owns architectural integrity and design quality, while the Director and delivery leaders remain accountable for priorities, capacity, and execution. The Architect also works closely with Enterprise Architecture, Analytics, Security, Engineering, Finance, Talent, and business stakeholders.

Work Location: This is a remote position. Candidates should be able to work primarily during Eastern Time business hours.

Essential Functions

• Define the target-state architecture for the ERP and people systems portfolio and its connected systems, and sequence it into technical roadmaps with transition states, dependencies, and retirement steps, setting the major platform roadmap jointly with the Director, ERP & People Systems Delivery.

• Decide whether needs are met through configuration, integration, or extension—delivered capabilities first, then APIs and integration tools, then custom extensions—and record significant decisions with options, trade-offs, and rationale.

• Publish standards, reference architectures, and reusable patterns, and scale review to risk: standard changes proceed on approved patterns; new integrations, security domains, Extend apps, and external data flows receive design review; and the Architect leads design of new modules, middleware, AI agents, and major Finance or HCM redesigns with delivery and business owners.

• Own the integration architecture and inventory for Workday and connected systems, including each integration's purpose, data, owner, security, and pattern; choose API, event, or batch patterns; set boundaries among Workday Orchestrate, Studio, EIB, and middleware; standardize authentication and error handling; and rationalize redundant point-to-point integrations.

• Define system-of-record boundaries and data ownership for worker, organization, and finance data, including how Workday, as the authoritative worker record, feeds identity and access processes; set standards for data movement, lineage, and reconciliation; and design reporting and analytics architecture across Workday reporting, Adaptive Planning, enterprise data platforms, and business intelligence tools with Data teams.

• Design ERP security architecture—security-group and role design, domain and business-process security, segregation of duties, privileged access, and integration identities—with controls that produce SOX and audit evidence under policies set by Security.

• Set cloud SaaS standards for tenant and environment strategy, protection of sensitive data in non-production tenants, and resilience to vendor release changes; assess Workday's semiannual releases, vendor roadmaps, new modules, and build-versus-buy options for fit, security, supportability, and total cost through Evolent's technology review process.

• Design the AI-enabled headless ERP experience: expose capabilities as governed APIs, events, and agent tools; keep business rules in the system of record; and decide what runs natively, in Orchestrate, or in cross-system flows built by the workplace AI and automation team.

• Define responsible-AI requirements for AI features and agents that act on financial and people data: grounding in authoritative data, least-privilege access, human approval for transactions, evaluation and prompt-injection testing before release, cost per outcome, and audit evidence for Evolent's AI governance and Security reviews.

• Build proofs of concept and reference implementations—API and integration prototypes, SQL data-validation queries, and agent or workflow prototypes—to test technical hypotheses, measure results, and recommend whether to adopt, extend, or stop before delivery teams commit.

• Specify nonfunctional requirements for performance, resilience, observability (logging, alerting, reconciliation checks), and testability, including which critical business processes and integrations need automated regression coverage; delivery teams choose test tooling and run pipelines and releases.

• Identify, classify, and size technical debt across architecture, security, integrations, and data models, including obsolete Studio integrations, and recommend a remediation sequence; delivery leaders own remediation, and the Senior Director sets investment priority.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise applications, ERP, or solution architecture, including architecture…