Workday Data Principal Consultant

The Data Principal Consultant will “bridge the gap” between the business and technical teams by solving complex Workday intersystem problems. They will guide clients through the transformation, implementation, and operation phases of a Workday implementation.  

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.  

• Design and generate data tracking and monitoring tools, and develop reports with accurate, easy to read, useful information.

• Identify strategies, risks, and options, recommend approaches and mitigations to meet client requirements. 

• Coordinate and lead cross functional discussions related to the execution of a Workday tenant build. 

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

• Guide clients through the data extract and cleansing process. 

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

• Create scrips to transform and load data and create strategies to improve and normalize client data. 

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

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

• Perform 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.  

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

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

• Actively participate 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 required or equivalent.  

• 2+ years of Workday functional implementation experience, required. Workday Student experienced candidates are preferred. 

• 2+ 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 Financi