[Remote] Functional Architect at Cognizant

The Functional Architect will provide strategic leadership and expert solutions guidance during the sales process, contributing to RFPs, RFIs, and proposals, and ensuring Workday solutions align with client goals. During implementation, they will lead functional workstreams, ensuring the overall functional integrity of the solution meets client requirements and positions them for long-term success. Key duties include collaborating with sales and delivery teams, owning effort/budgetary estimations, supporting the transition from sales to delivery, providing quality assurance oversight, collaborating cross-functionally with various Workday modules and teams, leading end-to-end functional solution design, providing functional leadership on concurrent implementations, driving client sessions, serving as the primary functional escalation point, promoting continuous improvement of methodologies, and mentoring junior team members.