Project Manager - Workday Implementation

Please note: This role is contingent upon a contract award. While it is not an immediate opening, we are actively conducting interviews and extending offers in anticipation of the award.

Job Summary

ICF is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead the implementation of a Workday-based Human Resource Case Management (HRCM) system as part of a federal HR Modernization initiative. This individual will coordinate team members, manage multi-vendor integration activities, oversee Workday configuration and deployment, ensure quality and schedule adherence, and support risk management, reporting, and stakeholder engagement. The Project Manager must have served in key leadership roles during previous Workday installations, configurations, integrations, and system extensions to meet customer requirements.

Location: Position is remote, but candidate must reside in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to attend periodic onsite customer meetings.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead planning, execution, and delivery of all project phases, including requirements confirmation, Workday tenant installation, configuration, integration, testing, deployment, and transition to O&M.
• Ensure alignment with federal System Lifecycle Management (SLM) methodology and all applicable standards.
• Direct day-to-day operations, coordinate with multi-vendor teams, and foster transparency and communication across all HR modernization workstreams.
• Conduct daily stand-up meetings, facilitate sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and maintain burn-down and velocity reporting.
• Manage Agile backlogs in coordination with government and vendor teams, ensuring consistent alignment to mission priorities and release plans.
• Provide leadership and oversight for Workday configuration, business process design, extensions, integrations, security model development, and reporting.
• Ensure Workday configuration aligns with federal human capital requirements and supports interoperable HR processes such as onboarding, personnel actions, performance management, benefits administration, and separation.
• Define project activities, milestones, and sequencing to meet all objectives and deliverables.
• Maintain detailed project documentation, schedules, plans, briefing decks, and status reports.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks; track issues in the program’s Risk Register; escalate items per the governance structure.
• Ensure adherence to configuration management practices for all system artifacts, changes, and deliverables.
• Oversee design, development, validation, and testing of interfaces with internal and external systems.
• Support data migration planning, extraction, cleansing, transformation, and validation for legacy HR data.
• Provide weekly status reporting on scope, schedule, risks, staffing, testing, and deliverable

Basic Qualifications

• Current active Public Trust clearance or ability to obtain Public Trust.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Must reside in the United States and perform work within the United States.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Project Management, IT, or related field.
• 5+ years of Project Management experience leading complex IT programs to include experience serving in key leadership roles during Workday installations, configurations, integrations, and system extensions to meet customer requirements.
• 1+ year of experience with JIRA or similar requirements/work-tracking tools
• 10–12+ years managing large IT implementations, including 4–5 years with PaaS/ERP or HCM cloud projects.
• Experience managing at least 1–2 Workday PaaS or comparable enterprise HR system implementations.
• Demonstrated management of public-sector or highly regulated IT projects (planning, risk, budget, reporting).
• PMP (or PRINCE2) certification.
• Familiarity with federal lifecycle/oversight (e.g., EVM, OMB governance, agency IT reviews).

Preferred Qualifications

• Active DHS Public Trust preferred.
• 2+ full-cycle Workday PaaS implementations as primary Program Manager, including one federal or Cabinet-level agency implementation.
• Experience managing programs with multiple vendors/contractors and complex interdependencies.
• Federal project management credentials (e.g., FAC-P/PM or DAWIA-equivalent) and experience interacting with COs, CORs, and IG/GAO oversight.
• Demonstrated use of hybrid or Agile delivery approaches in federal environments.
• Proven history of meeting or exceeding cost/schedule baselines on large federal IT programs.

Professional Skills

• Excellent writing, editing, and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-so