Workday Functional Lead, Skills

🕒 September 1

🦌 Connecticut – Remote

🦌 Connecticut – Remote

💵 $132.4k - $251.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💼 Consultant

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📋 Description

• Serve as the DT Workstream Lead for Workday within the Skills program • Provide direction, alignment, and escalation management • Represent DT in enterprise working groups and decision forums • Manage timelines, dependencies, deliverables, and risk mitigation • Provide functional leadership and guidance to technical contractors and the internal Workday support team • Translate business requirements into Workday configuration decisions, data structures, and functional designs • Conduct functional walkthroughs and solution reviews • Oversee functional requirements, design documents, and configuration specifications • Own Workday configuration decisions for Skills and ensure integration and data-flow accuracy • Lead the UAT approach, including planning, test execution support, and signoff • Partner with business teams to interpret requirements and implement solutions • Coordinate with Talent & Performance, HR, L&D, Security, WFI Reporting, and other module teams • Prepare insights and present recommendations based on best practices • Ensure data models, data quality rules, and integration requirements support enterprise standards • Validate mapping of skills, roles, job architecture, and user attributes across Workday and connected systems • Oversee testing of integrations and data flows related to skills features • Own the long-term sustainment model for Workday Skills configurations and integrations • Establish and oversee break/fix, enhancement, regression testing, release management, and change-control processes • Coordinate with support teams to maintain system performance, security, and compliance

🎯 Requirements

• A University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years experience • 7+ years of Workday functional or technical functional consulting experience • Experience with talent, skills, job architecture, or related Workday modules (Skills Cloud, Talent Optimization, Learning, Core HCM) • Experience managing configuration, integrations, and functional design reviews • Strong program or project leadership experience supporting multi-workstream initiatives • Experience representing technical complexity to non-technical stakeholders • Experience facilitating workshops and guiding stakeholders through conceptual frameworks • Partnership experience with HR, DT, vendors, and leadership stakeholders at all levels • Excellent documentation, communication, and organizational skills • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without company immigration sponsorship now or in the future • Workday Pro certification(s) in HCM and/or Talent preferred • Experience with skills frameworks or talent architecture preferred but not required • Experience with Workday Reporting and Security preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Compensation, healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits • Parental (including paternal) leave • Flexible work schedules • Achievement awards • Educational assistance • Child/adult backup care • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Life insurance • Short-term disability • Long-term disability • 401(k) match • Flexible spending accounts • Employee assistance program • Employee Scholar Program • Paid time off • Holidays • Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs (eligibility dependent on position and collective-bargaining coverage)

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