Remote Principal Workday Extend Consultant

Collaborative Solutions, LLC; Greater London; Remote; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Workday Extend Principal Consultant to lead design, development, and delivery of Extend solutions. You will guide solution architecture, mentor teams, and support pre-sales while ensuring alignment with business requirements.

This role emphasizes extending Workday capabilities and driving best practices across complex implementations. Expect client workshops, design sessions, and end-to-end delivery leadership with limited travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in CS/IT.
• Active Workday Extend Certification preferred.
• Additional certifications in Workday Integrations or Workday Architecture desirable.
• 5+ years of Workday implementation experience.
• Proven experience leading Workday Extend workstreams on end-to-end implementations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a Workday Extend subject matter expert, providing guidance on solution architecture, application design, and Workday best practices.
• Lead client workshops and technical design sessions to define Extend solutions aligned to business requirements.
• Design, develop, and deploy custom applications using Workday Extend.
• Lead Extend workstreams on medium to large Workday implementations, managing decisions, risks and dependencies.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure Extend applications.
• Partner with Functional, Integrations, Reporting, Security, and Project Management teams to deliver integrated solutions.
• Advise clients on Workday extensibility, automation opportunities, UX design, and platform capabilities.
• Support testing, deployment, cutover, and post-go-live activities.
• Mentor consultants and developers, providing coaching and technical guidance.
• Support business development activities including estimations, proposals, demonstrations, and customer presentations.
• Contribute to practice development through methodology enhancements and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Workday Extend

Solution design

Workday architecture

Delivery leadership

Pre-sales

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Workday Extend Principal Consultant to lead design, development, and delivery of Extend solutions. You will guide solution architecture, mentor teams, and support pre-sales while ensuring alignment with business requirements.

This role emphasizes extending Workday capabilities and driving best practices across complex implementations. Expect client workshops, design sessions, and end-to-end delivery leadership with limited travel.