Cognizant

Workday Data Senior Principal Consultant (Workday Student)

Cognizant$128K — $192K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Workday certification required
  • Data conversion experience in Workday Student
  • 4+ years of Workday implementation experience
  • 5 years of experience with Student, HR, Payroll, or Financials software
  • Experience in data conversion, mining, and loading
  • Demonstrated functional experience in Student or Financials Management

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a Workday Student data product expert, overseeing design and implementation tasks
  • Communicate company policies and procedures to team members
  • Direct tactical decisions for project workstreams
  • Identify interdependencies and ensure collaboration across project workstreams
  • Mentor and supervise fellow consultants on project execution
  • Develop and implement data tracking tools and generate insightful reports
  • Assess client requirements and recommend strategies and solutions to mitigate risks

Benefits

  • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
  • Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
  • 401(k) plan with contributions
  • Long-term and Short-term Disability coverage
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Full Job Description
The Workday Data Senior Principal Consultant will "bridge the gap" between the business and technical teams by solving complex Workday Student intersystem problems. They will guide clients through the transformation, implementation, and operation phases of a Workday implementation.

Responsibilities:

  • Be a Workday Student data product expert with knowledge of design, configuration, testing and implementation.
  • Reinforces company policies and procedures to others.
  • Drives and makes decisions regarding tactical direction of project workstreams.
  • Identifies dependencies and supports interplay between different workstreams within a project.
  • Leads, mentors, and oversees the work of other Consultants within their projects.
  • Designs and generates data tracking and monitoring tools, and develops reports with accurate, easy to read, useful information.
  • Identifies strategies, risks, and options, recommends approaches and mitigations to meet client requirements.
  • Coordinates and leads cross functional discussions related to the execution of a Workday tenant build.
  • Uses technical aptitude to map data sources into Workday using Workday delivered and Cognizant built tools for the data conversion process.
  • Guides clients through the data extract and cleansing process.


  • Loads customer data, migrate configuration from tenant to tenant, identify risks and issues to the overall conversion process, troubleshoot load issues, and document issues.
  • Creates scripts to transform and load data and creates strategies to improve and normalize client data.
  • Leads the validation of data loaded into Workday. Works with the customer to ensure they understand the data validation process.
  • Regularly engages and supports the client through all phases of the project, ensuring a smooth transfer from legacy systems to the Workday solutions.
  • Performs multiple tasks under limited direction, while regularly keeping the client, your project team, and your Engagement Manager abreast of changes or progress related to the project.
  • Willingness to take a leadership position on a project.
  • Uses technical aptitude to convert and map data sources into data conversion templates via all Workday load methods.
  • Acts as a mentor to fellow consultants and analysts, including providing support for shadow assignments.
  • Actively participates in update training and internal opportunities to share one's skills and learnings with others within the organization.
  • Additional duties as assigned by manager.


Skills & Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • Must be certified in Workday
  • Data conversion experience in Workday Student required
  • 4+ years of Workday implementation experience required
  • 5 years Student, Human Resources, Payroll, or Financials software experience required.
  • Experience with data conversion, data mining, and data loading
  • Demonstrated functional experience in Student, Human Resources, Payroll, or Financials Management
  • Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel on-site if needed


Salary and Other Compensation
Applications will be accepted until 08/25/2026The annual salary for this position is between $128,093 - $192,140 depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program , based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.
Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
  • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
  • Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
  • 401(k) plan and contributions
  • Long-term/Short-term Disability
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan


Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

About Cognizant

TriZetto is Powering Integrated Healthcare Management. With technology solutions touching more than half the U.S. population today, TriZetto is uniquely positioned to drive the convergence of core benefit administration, care management and constituent engagement. TriZetto provides premier information technology solutions that enable payers and other constituents in the healthcare supply chain to improve the coordination of benefits and care for healthcare consumers.

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340,400 employees
Market Cap
$28.7 billion
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Net Income
$1.3 billion
Founded
1994
5 Year Trend
+6.5%
Revenue
$16.6 billion
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