Workday Data Migration Consultant

Queen Square Recruitment Ltd; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Queen Square Recruitment Ltd is seeking experienced Workday Data Migration Consultants for a long-term contract. You will lead data migration from Workday to a new payroll platform, ensuring data integrity, validation, and smooth business continuity.

The role requires hands-on migration work, data transformation, and strong stakeholder communication in a hybrid environment. The project is time-sensitive with an urgent requirement, and candidates should have 8+ years in Workday data migration and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Workday Data Migration and Workday Integration.
• Degree or professional qualifications related to IT or HR systems.
• Experience with data extraction, transformation, cleansing, validation and reconciliation.
• Strong knowledge of Workday HCM processes and payroll data structures.
• Proven ability to work independently in fast-paced projects.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Skills

Workday Data Migration

Workday Integration

Data extraction

Data transformation

Data cleansing

Data validation

Data reconciliation

Workday HCM

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Independent working

Education

Relevant degree or professional qualifications

Tools

Workday (HCM)

EIBs

Integrations

Data conversion tools

Job description

New long term contract for the role of Workday Data Migration Consultant

Location:Reading / Dublin, UK (Hybrid-3 days onsite)

Contract Duration: 12 Months

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

The Role

We are seeking experienced Workday Data Migration Consultants to support a strategic customer engagement involving the migration of employee and payroll-related data from Workday to a new payroll platform. The ideal candidates will possess strong functional knowledge of Workday processes along with hands-on experience in data migration, data validation, and data transformation activities.

This is an urgent requirement supporting a time-sensitive customer project, and the selected resources will play a key role in ensuring a seamless transition with minimal business disruption.

Your Profile

Essential skills/experience:

• Proven experience (8+) working experience in Workday Data Migration and Workday Integration exposure.
• Appropriate degree or relevant professional qualifications.
• Experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches.
• Strong experience working with Workday HCM and related business processes.
• Proven experience in data migration projects, preferably involving HR and payroll systems.
• Experience with data extraction, transformation, cleansing, validation, and reconciliation.
• Understanding of employee, organizational, payroll, and workforce data structures.
• Ability to analyze complex data sets and troubleshoot migration issues.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced project environment.
• Experience migrating data from Workday to payroll platforms or other HCM solutions.
• Knowledge of payroll processes and payroll data structures.
• Experience with Workday reporting, EIBs, integrations, or data conversion tools.
• Workday certification is an added advantage.
• Workday Learning implementation and architecture.
• HR, Learning and Talent technology ecosystems.
• Identity and Access Management (SSO, MFA, Entra ID, SailPoint).
• Retail workforce and frontline colleague technology.
• Enterprise integration architecture and API-led design.
• Blueprint development and target-state architecture definition