Workday Data Migration Consultant

We are seeking experienced Workday Data Migration Lead Consultants to support a strategic customer engagement involving the migration of employee and payroll-related data from Workday to a new payroll platform. The ideal candidates will possess strong functional knowledge of Workday processes along with hands-on experience in data migration, data validation, and data transformation activities. This is an urgent requirement supporting a time-sensitive customer project, and the selected resources will play a key role in ensuring a seamless transition with minimal business disruption. Your responsibilities: Analyze and understand existing Workday data structures and business processes. Lead and support end-to-end data migration activities from Workday to a new payroll platform. Gather, extract, transform, cleanse, validate, and reconcile data throughout the migration lifecycle. Collaborate with business stakeholders, payroll teams, and technical teams to ensure data accuracy and completeness. Develop data mapping documents and migration strategies. Identify and resolve data quality issues and migration-related risks. Perform migration testing, validation, and post-migration support activities. Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and privacy requirements. Support project timelines and provide regular status updates to stakeholders. Your Profile Proven experience (8+) working experience in Workday Data Migration and Workday Integration exposure. Experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches. Strong experience working with Workday HCM and related business processes. Proven experience in data migration projects , preferably involving HR and payroll systems. Experience with data extraction, transformation, cleansing, validation, and reconciliation. Understanding of employee, organizational, payroll, and workforce data structures. Ability to analyze complex data sets and troubleshoot migration issues. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. Ability to work independently in a fast-paced project environment. Experience migrating data from Workday to payroll platforms or other HCM solutions. Knowledge of payroll processes and payroll data structures. Experience with Workday reporting, EIBs, integrations, or data conversion tools. Workday certification is an added advantage. Workday Learning implementation and architecture. HR, Learning and Talent technology ecosystems. Identity and Access Management (SSO, MFA, Entra ID, SailPoint). Retail workforce and frontline colleague technology. Enterprise integration architecture and API-led design. Blueprint development and target-state architecture definition. #J-18808-Ljbffr