Collaborative Solutions
Workday Data Senior Principal Consultant (Workday Student)
USA - United States - Remote · Principal
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About the role
- The Workday Data Senior Principal Consultant will "bridge the gap" between the business and technical teams by solving complex Workday Student intersystem problems.
- They will guide clients through the transformation, implementation, and operation phases of a Workday implementation.
- Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Responsibilities
- Be a Workday Student data product expert with knowledge of design, configuration, testing and implementation.
- Drives and makes decisions regarding tactical direction of project workstreams.
- Identifies dependencies and supports interplay between different workstreams within a project.
- Leads, mentors, and oversees the work of other Consultants within their projects.
- Designs and generates data tracking and monitoring tools, and develops reports with accurate, easy to read, useful information.
- Coordinates and leads cross functional discussions related to the execution of a Workday tenant build.
- Loads customer data, migrate configuration from tenant to tenant, identify risks and issues to the overall conversion process, troubleshoot load issues, and document issues.
- Creates scripts to transform and load data and creates strategies to improve and normalize client data.
- Leads the validation of data loaded into Workday. Works with the customer to ensure they understand the data validation process.
- Regularly engages and supports the client through all phases of the project, ensuring a smooth transfer from legacy systems to the Workday solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Must be certified in Workday
- Data conversion experience in Workday Student required
- 4+ years of Workday implementation experience required
- 5 years Student, Human Resources, Payroll, or Financial s software experience required.
- Experience with data conversion, data mining, and data loading
- Demonstrated functional experience in Student, Human Resources, Payroll, or Financials Management
Compensation
- Salary and Other Compensation
Benefits
- Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting.
- Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
- Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement
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