Senior Data Conversion Consultant – Student Data Remote

Workday; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Workday is seeking a Senior Data Conversion Consultant in Sydney to lead data conversion activities for Workday Student deployments across APAC. You will partner with customers, project managers, functional consultants, and tech teams to define approach, understand legacy data, and ensure accurate loads.

You will tackle complex student data domains, manage issues, communicate risks, and mentor teammates while contributing to best practices and reusable assets.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of data migration, integration development, report building, or software development.
• 6+ years of technical consulting, requirements gathering, or solution design.
• 6+ years of HR, Payroll, Financials, Supply Chain, or Student domain experience.
• Experience with Workday Student or higher education student information systems is strongly preferred.
• Experience in leading a Data Conversion workstream on a software implementation project.
• Proficiency with ETL tools, SQL/MySQL, XML, Excel, stored procedures or similar.
• Experience leading customer data requirements sessions or technical workshops.
• Participation in a minimum of 1 full life cycle software implementation.
• Understanding of the complete software implementation lifecycle, including data requirements gathering, data mapping, data transformation, data migration, data validation, data reconciliation, testing, cutover, and move to production.
• Experience using GitHub, Python, and/or Ruby.
• Prior experience with Workday data conversion technologies such as iLoad, EIB, Advanced Load.
• Experience with AI products, prompt engineering and agent development.

Responsibilities

• Lead data conversion activities across the full project lifecycle.
• Define the conversion approach with customers, PMs, and technical teams.
• Understand legacy student data and support data mapping and transformation.
• Load accurate, high-quality data into Workday Student.
• Manage issues proactively and communicate risks and recommendations.
• Contribute to delivery best practices and reusable assets; mentor others.

Skills

Data migration

Data conversion

Data mapping

Data validation

Data reconciliation

Workday Student

Lead data conversion

ETL tooling

SQL/MySQL

GitHub

Python

AI familiarity

Tools

ETL tools

SQL

XML

GitHub

Python

Ruby

iLoad/EIB/Advanced Load

Job description

Workday is seeking a Senior Data Conversion Consultant in Sydney to lead data conversion activities for Workday Student deployments across APAC. You will partner with customers, project managers, functional consultants, and tech teams to define approach, understand legacy data, and ensure accurate loads.

You will tackle complex student data domains, manage issues, communicate risks, and mentor teammates while contributing to best practices and reusable assets.