Kognitiv Inc Looking for Workday Solution Architect (100% Remote) at Remote

Kognitiv Inc; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that prioritizes employee satisfaction and customer service excellence. This role offers the opportunity to lead complex Workday projects, ensuring high client satisfaction through strategic planning and implementation. Collaborate with a global customer base while mentoring junior consultants and driving process improvements. If you are passionate about HR technology and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this position is perfect for you. Embrace the chance to innovate and make a significant impact in the Workday ecosystem while enjoying the flexibility of remote work.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Workday implementations or support.
• Deep knowledge of Workday modules and project lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex Workday projects, ensuring quality and client satisfaction.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and guide clients through implementations.

Skills

Workday Core HCM

Project Management

Client Relationship Management

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Team Leadership

Business Process Improvement

Regulatory Compliance

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Relevant Certifications

Tools

Workday

Project Management Software

Job description

About Kognitiv Inc.

Kognitiv Inc. seeks to be the best in the Workday ecosystem in both customer and employee satisfaction. We believe happy employees go hand-in-hand with happy customers. We truly believe that if our employees feel engaged, challenged, and empowered every day, they will provide top-notch service for our customers. We encourage our employees to “act like an owner” each and every day in the work they do and their contributions to our fast growing organization.

All opportunities are Remote. By applying to this role, you will be considered for all Workday opportunities within the organization.

Role Overview

We look for individuals who possess a broad understanding of cross functional touchpoints and their impacts within the Workday system to effectively develop solutions to complex problems/projects across multiple modules and clients. The role is responsible for leading the most complex and largest projects within the organization. This role partners with clients to understand strategic objectives related to HR technology including employee experience, business processes, data strategy, and service delivery. They drive high client satisfaction through these partnerships, building relationships with clients and delivering impeccable customer service.

Key Responsibilities

1. Serve as a subject matter expert in a variety of strategic and high-impact projects, guiding clients through strategic planning, implementation, and stabilization with no supervision.
2. Lead multiple concurrent large, complex Workday solutions and projects for a global customer base. Design, configure, test, and implement business requirements across multiple Workday HCM module(s).
3. Manage the project scope, quality, timeline, communication, and overall delivery to client. Provide guidance, instruction, direction, and coaching to team members, regardless of people management responsibilities. Review team members’ work as necessary to ensure quality.
4. Conduct working sessions with clients to gather, understand, and analyze business requirements. Assess actual client needs and propose recommendations and/or alternative solutions to meet client goals.
5. Advise clients on best practices, recognize, and recommend process improvements, and implement system enhancements.
6. Deeply understand and consult to touch points, dependencies, and integration aspects across all area(s) of Workday to provide a comprehensive solution to clients.
7. Understand different country regulatory and statutory requirements and how these can be met with Workday.
8. Lead portions of client sales meetings as a Subject Matter Expert.
9. Work with clients, Project Managers, and Team Leads to identify/resolve all issues that could impact project scope and/or Go Live; partner with Project Managers to ensure alignment across project plans and allocated budgets.
10. Strive to innovate and suggest new approaches to deploy Workday efficiently and effectively.
11. Contribute to knowledge management repository through formal and informal avenues, such as sharing documented lessons learned, Q&A, documented deliverables, facilitation of Workday knowledge sharing sessions, regularly posting best practices and knowledge sharing information to team(s) and mentoring and training junior team members.
12. Work in a fast-paced environment that requires tasks to be completed quickly and accurately.

Qualifications

1. 4+ years’ experience as a consultant leading and deploying Workday implementations or supporting Workday Post-Production / AMS Services.
2. Deep knowledge of Workday Core HCM, Security and Reporting as well as at least one additional Workday module (Adv. Compensation, Payroll, Recruiting, Talent, Time Tracking, Absence, Learning, Benefits, Prism, BIRT).
3. Ability to lead workstream(s) on large scale projects for the full project lifecycle – from initial scoping/planning, discovery, design, testing, and go live.
4. Broad business and technology understanding and a deep awareness of industry trends in Enterprise Resource Planning, Human Resources, Finance, and/or Payroll.
5. Proven ability to influence a wide variety of audiences, including clients, employees, and executive management.
6. Demonstrated commitment and achievement to delivery excellence and client satisfaction; strong client focus with the ability to understand client needs and build relationships.
7. Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with customers and colleagues in a remote working environment.
8. Ability to prioritize and organize work to ensure overall timeliness and quality standards with little supervision.
9. Experience managing global teams, whether in a people management or program/project management capacity.
10. Proven ability to see around corners and understand both the big picture and individual needs.
11. Understanding of scope and details of a project plan. Possess the ability to identify and communicate risks, issues, performance concerns, the need for resources, etc to internal and external stakeholders.
12. Experience implementing complex business solutions under competing deadlines and priorities while keeping a high attention to detail.
13. Ability to be effectively and actively leading multiple, concurrent projects.
14. Willingness and ability to mentor and/or line manage other consultants.
15. Able to come up with improvements in tools and/or processes to help the practice.
16. Understanding the importance of client satisfaction and can apply it in the process of servicing the client.
17. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to adapt to frequent change.
18. Ability to meet travel requirements.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Kognitiv is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Compensation

The base pay range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill set, experience, education, certification/credentials, market data, internal equity, and office location, and other business and organizational needs. A reasonable estimate of range is $55,000 to $186,200 for CA, NY, and CO. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount varies based on factors described.

Application Requirements

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Kognitiv.