Workday Implementation Lead: Global HR Transformation Architect

Jobtailor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Workday Delivery Lead to steer the News UK Workday implementation from design through go-live and transition to business-as-usual. You will own the technical integrity across architecture, integration and data workstreams, translating business objectives into a clear technology strategy and delivery roadmap.

The role requires senior leadership with proven delivery experience in large, global organisations and the ability to communicate complex topics to

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading large-scale Workday implementations or transformation programmes.
• Deep understanding of Workday HCM and enterprise HR technology.
• Strong understanding of Workday architecture, integrations, security and data migration.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technology teams across global organisations.
• Programme governance, risk management and delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end technology delivery of the Workday implementation.
• Provide direction across architecture, integration and data workstreams.
• Own technical integrity and solution architecture for Workday.
• Translate objectives into a Workday technology strategy and delivery roadmap.
• Provide senior leadership visibility of progress, risks and decisions.
• Oversee Workday functional design and configuration.
• Govern architecture, design standards, solution decisions and exceptions to global standards.
• Lead integration design, build, testing and deployment across Workday and dependent systems.
• Oversee end-to-end data migration, including extraction, transformation, cleansing, mapping, validation and loading.
• Ensure technology readiness for design completion, SIT, UAT, production deployment and go-live.
• Lead technology cutover planning and coordinate cross-workstream dependencies.
• Establish hypercare and transition-to-support arrangements.
• Govern technology risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, controls, documentation and auditability.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team of Workday functional consultants, architects, integration specialists, data specialists and other technology resources.
• Build relationships with senior stakeholders across News UK, News Corp Global Technology, HR, Finance, Payroll and other functions.
• Act as the primary technology escalation point and coach workstream leads

Skills

Workday Leadership

Workday HCM

Integration Design

Programme Governance

Stakeholder Management

Executive Communication

Team Leadership

Data Migration

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Workday Delivery Lead to steer the News UK Workday implementation from design through go-live and transition to business-as-usual. You will own the technical integrity across architecture, integration and data workstreams, translating business objectives into a clear technology strategy and delivery roadmap.

The role requires senior leadership with proven delivery experience in large, global organisations and the ability to communicate complex topics to