Workday Data Senior Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Be a Workday product expert with knowledge of design, configuration, testing and implementation.

• Reinforces company policies and procedures to others.

• Drives and makes decisions regarding tactical direction of project workstreams.

• Identifies dependencies and supports interplay between different workstreams within a project.

• Leads, mentors, and oversees the work of other Consultants within their projects.

• Designs and generates data tracking and monitoring tools, and develops reports with accurate, easy to read, useful information.

• Identifies strategies, risks, and options, recommends approaches and mitigations to meet client requirements.

• Coordinates and leads cross functional discussions related to the execution of a Workday tenant build.

• Uses technical aptitude to map data sources into Workday using Workday delivered and Cognizant built tools for the data conversion process.

• Guides clients through the data extract and cleansing process.

• Loads customer data, migrate configuration from tenant to tenant, identify risks and issues to the overall conversion process, troubleshoot load issues, and document issues.

• Creates scripts to transform and load data and creates strategies to improve and normalize client data.

• Leads the validation of data loaded into Workday. Works with the customer to ensure they understand the data validation process.

• Regularly engages and supports the client through all phases of the project, ensuring a smooth transfer from legacy systems to the Workday solutions.

• Performs multiple tasks under limited direction, while regularly keeping the client, your project team, and your Engagement Manager abreast of changes or progress related to the project.

• Willingness to take a leadership position on a project.

• Uses technical aptitude to convert and map data sources into data conversion templates via all Workday load methods.

• Acts as a mentor to fellow consultants and analysts, including providing support for shadow assignments.

• Actively participates in update training and internal opportunities to share one’s skills and learnings with others within the organization.

• Additional duties as assigned by manager.

Skills & Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• Must be certified in Workday

• 4+ years of Workday functional implementation experience required.

• 5 years Human Resources, Payroll, Student or Financial software experience required.

• Experience with data conversion, data mining, and data loading

• Demonstrated functional experience in Human Resources, Payroll, Student or Financials Management.

• Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel on-site if needed