Workday Implementation Lead

Join us in re-imagining health care with the largest social enterprise in Canada. SE Health is leading a multi-year enterprise transformation project that leverages human-centered design to be at the forefront of innovation within the healthcare sector. As a leader in home care, we are expanding and enhancing our capabilities to provide personalized experiences using new platforms and cloud-native architectures, ensuring privacy and security by design. Our transformation is grounded in guiding principles drive to ensure that we prioritize team decisions, long-term planning, process standardization, data-driven insights, and balanced user adoption. If you are driven by the desire to have an impact, change the world of health care and shape the future, we invite you to be part of our journey.

** JOB SUMMARY**:
We are seeking a technically skilled and experienced Workday Implementation Lead to manage the technical delivery of our Workday implementation, including integrations, data migration, reporting, and security. This role is critical to ensure the successful deployment of Workday modules, with a focus on technical execution, system architecture alignment, and cross-platform integration.

Reporting to the Workday Implementation Project Manager, you will work closely with IT, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, workstream leads, and vendor teams to ensure the solution is scalable, secure, and aligned with organizational standards.

**JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Technical Project Leadership**:

- Lead the technical workstream of the Workday implementation, including integrations, data conversion, reporting, and security configuration.
- Develop and manage detailed technical project plans, ensuring alignment with overall program timelines and milestones.
- Oversee the design, development, and testing of Workday integrations with internal and third-party systems (e.g., payroll providers, benefits platforms, financial systems).
- Coordinate data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) activities, ensuring data integrity and compliance with privacy standards.
- Support the planning and execution of testing cycles, including integration, end-to-end, user readiness review (URR), and regression testing, ensuring all technical components meet quality standards and business requirements.
- Partner with Workday Implementation Partner to manage Workday environments (sandbox, implementation tenant, production), coordinating environment refreshes, configuration migrations, and ensuring readiness for testing and deployment activities.
- Facilitate the definition and mapping of Workday security roles and permissions in collaboration with cybersecurity and business stakeholders.
- Ensure technical deliverables meet enterprise architecture, privacy, and cybersecurity requirements.

** Technical Leadership & Execution**:

- Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, and issues, escalating as needed to ensure timely resolution.
- Maintain comprehensive technical documentation, including integration specs, data mapping, and test plans.
- Collaborate with functional workstream leads to ensure seamless coordination between business and technical activities.
- Provide input/guidance/feedback on the execution of project tasks assigned to project team members, including task prioritization and resource conflicts.
- Regularly report project progress to the Workday Project Manager, project stakeholders and sponsors as required.

** Stakeholder & Vendor Engagement**
- Act as the primary point of contact for technical vendors, including Workday implementation partners and integration consultants.
- Facilitate technical design sessions, architecture reviews, and data governance discussions.
- Provide regular updates to project leadership, IT governance, and executive sponsors on technical progress and risks.
- Support change management efforts by ensuring technical readiness for go-live and post-implementation support.

** Cross-Program Collaboration**
- Align technical workstream activities with other enterprise initiatives, ensuring integration and data consistency across platforms.
- Participate in enterprise architecture and data governance forums to ensure alignment with organizational standards.
- Coordinate with cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance teams to ensure adherence to regulatory and internal policies.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification is an asset.
- Workday Pro certification in Integration, Reporting, or Security is an asset.

**Skills & Experience**
- 4 - 7 years of experience managing technical workstreams in large-scale ($1M+) enterprise system implementations.
- Prior experience leading a technical workstream of a Workday implementation within an Enterprise environment.
- Experience with Workday technical components, including integrations (EIB, S