Senior Workday Data Transformation Lead

Collaborative Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor network

Training programs

Career growth

Job summary

Cognizant invites a Principal Data Consultant with Workday HCM/Finance expertise to guide clients through transformation, implementation, and operation phases of Workday projects. You will lead data migrations, build ETL processes, and mentor junior staff across multiple customer engagements.

You will partner with teams to ensure design, configuration, testing, and delivery excellence, while leveraging tools like iLoad, EIB, and Object Transporter.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Technology, MIS, or related field.
• 3-5 years ERP Data Conversion or HCM implementation experience.
• 3-5 years Workday experience highly desired.
• Experience with data conversion, data mining, and data loading.
• Advanced experience of Excel.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication capabilities; able to communicate effectively with diverse people and individuals at various levels within the organization.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work well individually as well as in a team environment.

Responsibilities

• Perform in the role of a Workday Data expert with knowledge of design, configuration, testing, and implementation for both HCM and Finance.
• Partner closely with your team and customers to achieve excellence in each phase of your projects.
• Use Workday tools of iLoad, EIB, Object Transporter, Advanced Load, and Migration Recipe to do tenant to tenant migrations.
• Design and generate data tracking and monitoring tools, and develop reports with accurate, easy to read, useful information.
• Utilize your technical aptitude to convert and map data sources into data conversion templates via iLoads, EIB, and Advance Load.
• Guide clients through the data extract and cleansing process, including loading customer data, moving configuration from tenant to tenant, and configuring business processes and security.
• Create ETL scripts to transform and load data, and create strategies to improve and normalize client data.
• Support the validation of data loaded into Workday.
• Regularly engage and support the client through all phases of the project, ensuring a smooth transfer from legacy systems to the Workday solution.
• Perform multiple tasks under limited direction, while regularly keeping the client, your project team and your Engagement Manager abreast of changes or progress related to the project.
• Willingness to take a leadership position on a project, or as a Cognizant or Workday product Partner Lead and/or Delivery Assurance Reviewer.
• Act as a mentor to fellow consultants and analysts, including providing support for shadow assignments.
• Actively participate in update training and internal opportunities to share one’s skills and learnings with others within the organization

Skills

Workday data expert

ERP data conversion

HCM implementation

Finance implementation

Excel advanced

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/MIS

Tools

iLoad

EIB

Object Transporter

Advanced Load

Migration Recipe

Job description

Cognizant invites a Principal Data Consultant with Workday HCM/Finance expertise to guide clients through transformation, implementation, and operation phases of Workday projects. You will lead data migrations, build ETL processes, and mentor junior staff across multiple customer engagements.

You will partner with teams to ensure design, configuration, testing, and delivery excellence, while leveraging tools like iLoad, EIB, and Object Transporter.