Workday Data Senior Principal Consultant

22 hours ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Cognizant Full time
Job Title: Workday Data Senior Principal Consultant

At Cognizant, we're seeking a highly skilled Workday Data Senior Principal Consultant to join our team. As a key member of our organization, you will play a critical role in bridging the gap between business and technical teams by solving complex Workday intersystem problems.

Responsibilities:
  • Be a Workday product expert with in-depth knowledge of design, configuration, testing, and implementation.
  • Reinforce company policies and procedures to others.
  • Drive and make decisions regarding tactical direction of project workstreams.
  • Identify dependencies and support interplay between different workstreams within a project.
  • Lead, mentor, and oversee the work of other Consultants within their projects.
  • Design and generate data tracking and monitoring tools, and develop reports with accurate, easy-to-read, useful information.
  • Identify strategies, risks, and options, recommend approaches and mitigations to meet client requirements.
  • Coordinate and lead cross-functional discussions related to the execution of a Workday tenant build.
  • Use technical aptitude to map data sources into Workday using Workday delivered and Cognizant built tools for the data conversion process.
  • Guide clients through the data extract and cleansing process.
  • Load customer data, migrate configuration from tenant to tenant, identify risks and issues to the overall conversion process, troubleshoot load issues, and document issues.
  • Create scripts to transform and load data and create strategies to improve and normalize client data.
  • Lead the validation of data loaded into Workday. Work with the customer to ensure they understand the data validation process.
  • Regularly engage and support the client through all phases of the project, ensuring a smooth transfer from legacy systems to the Workday solutions.
  • 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.
  • Use technical aptitude to convert and map data sources into data conversion templates via all Workday load methods.
  • 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.
  • Additional duties as assigned by manager.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
  • Must be certified in Workday.
  • 4+ years of Workday functional implementation experience required.
  • 5 years Human Resources, Payroll, Student or Financial software experience required.
  • Experience with data conversion, data mining, and data loading.
  • Demonstrated functional experience in Human Resources, Payroll, Student or Financials Management.
  • Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel on-site if needed.

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Why choose Cognizant:

  • Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas.
  • Opportunity to do great work.
  • Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit.
  • Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement.
  • Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
  • An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs.

Cognizant Core Values:

  • Start with a point of view: I apply my expertise to gain trust and to lead our clients forward.
  • Seek data, build knowledge: I use facts to guide my actions and decisions.
  • Always strive, never settle: I act with agility and creativity, determined to stay one step ahead.
  • Work as one: I deliver solutions that draw upon the full power and scale of Cognizant.
  • Create conditions for everyone to thrive: I include, enable, and invest in everyone around me.
  • Do the right thing, the right way: I always make the ethical choice.


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