Workday Data Migration Consultant

The Role: Workday Migration Consultant

Location: Reading, UK

Position Type: Contract Inside IR35

Remote work option Available: 3- Days Work from Office

Job Description

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.

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Proven experience (8+) working experience in Workday Data Migration and Workday Integration exposure.

• Appropriate degree or relevant professional qualifications.

• 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