As a Workday Solution Architect, you’ll perform advisory and implementation services to address business needs throughout client organizations for the Technology Transformation Practice – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel.
From day one, you’ll be empowered by the greater Technology Transformation team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.
Your day-to-day may include:
- Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, & build phases
- Responsible for documenting business requirements, system design and transformational goals
- Configure applications and conduct iterative unit testing
- Help to create training materials and quick reference guides to support user adoption
- Conduct training classes to prepare end users for deployment
- Provide post-production support
- Participate in full life cycle implementations
- Assist in the identification of business requirements, functional design, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), prototyping, testing, training, defining support procedures
- Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
- Other duties as assigned
You have the following technical skills and qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, Information Technology, MIS, or related field required, Master’s degree is a plus
- Minimum 4 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level
- Minimum of 4 full life cycle implementations of Workday
- Knowledge of Workday modules
- Industry recognized professional certification required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics, and reports
- Experience with application integration & back-end data connectivity applications
- Experience installing/configuring/implementing Workday Applications
- Exposure or training on Workday Applications
- Knowledge of Workday Applications
- Proven ability delivering complex and time sensitive projects
- Strong leadership skills, able to conduct meetings and write technically oriented documents
- Able to work with clients to understand current state processes and define future state processes based on business objectives
- Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 40%
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, Information Technology, MIS, or related field
- Master's degree
- Minimum 4 years of related consulting experience servicing cross-industry clients
- Minimum of 4 full life cycle Workday implementations
- Industry-recognized professional certification (Workday certification)
- Knowledge of Workday modules and Workday Applications
- Experience installing, configuring, and implementing Workday Applications
- Experience with application integration and back-end data connectivity applications
- Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics, and reports
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proven ability delivering complex and time-sensitive projects
- Strong leadership skills; ability to conduct meetings and write technical documents
- Ability to analyze current state processes and define future state processes
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 40%
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