Workday Data Migration Consultant

New long term contract for the role of Workday Data Migration Consultant

Location:Reading / Dublin, UK (Hybrid-3 days onsite)

Contract Duration: 12 Months

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

The Role

We are seeking experienced Workday Data Migration 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 Profile

Essential skills/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.

Desirable skills/experience:

o Workday Learning implementation and architecture.

o HR, Learning and Talent technology ecosystems.

o Identity and Access Management (SSO, MFA, Entra ID, SailPoint).

o Retail workforce and frontline colleague technology.

o Enterprise integration architecture and API-led design.

o Large-scale HR transformation programmes.

o Blueprint development and target-state architecture definition