Workday HCM Senior Solution Consultant, VP
$120,000–$210,000 year
On-siteBoston, Massachusetts, United States or Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Job Summary
Partner directly with HR Centers of Excellence to uncover underlying business problems and design native Workday solutions spanning Core HCM, Compensation, Recruiting, and Analytics. Execute full-scope configuration including business process design, calculated fields, condition rules, and custom reports, while evaluating trade-offs between out-of-the-box functionality and policy changes. Collaborate with Security and Data Management teams on production security and data migrations, and assess cross-module implications for compensation eligibility and performance cycles. Support release management by evaluating biannual updates and provide architectural input on build versus buy decisions. Maintain auditable configuration documentation and mentor team members on best practices.
Required Qualifications
- 8–10+ years of hands-on Workday configuration experience
- Direct, verifiable ownership of solution design and configuration
- Deep, hands-on configuration expertise in at least one of the following: Core HCM, Advanced Compensation, Recruiting, Performance Management, Talent, Prism Analytics, or Severance
- Working knowledge of how the expertise area connects to the others
- Demonstrated ability to translate an ambiguous business ask into a Workday design
- Comfort owning configuration in a live production tenant
- Working knowledge of business process design, calculated fields, condition rules, and custom reports
- Working knowledge of security and EIB/data load concepts
- Working knowledge of the broader Workday ecosystem and how changes in one area ripple into others
- Strong consulting instincts: comfortable pushing back on a COE's request when a simpler or more sustainable design exists
- Ability to explain design trade-offs in plain language to a non-technical stakeholder
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working in an HR Technology Solutions function embedded within a large, matrixed enterprise
- Exposure to Workday Extend, Workday Learning, Hired Score, Paradox
- Experience with M&A-driven Workday configuration work
- Prior experience mentoring junior analysts or leading a workstream within a larger implementation team
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