Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Workday Lead to manage and support enterprise-wide Workday applications and related integrations. The role requires strong techno-functional expertise across Workday modules, leadership capabilities, stakeholder management, and experience in driving operational excellence, enhancements, and strategic roadmap initiatives.
The candidate will act as a key liaison between business stakeholders, IT teams, and support analysts while ensuring stable operations, continuous improvements, and alignment with organizational priorities.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Workday Application & Technology Leadership
- Recommend technical solutions considering business priorities, dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs while driving stakeholder alignment.
- Drive awareness of Workday technology product updates, feature enhancements, deprecation items, and integration strategy changes.
- Translate Workday platform and technology updates into actionable recommendations for IT and business stakeholders.
- Continuously evaluate platform capabilities and identify opportunities for optimization and innovation.
- Provide technical feasibility assessments for strategic initiatives and enhancement requests.
- Develop Workday technology and functional strategic roadmap recommendations including continuous improvement initiatives.
Workday Functional & Technical Support
- Provide production support for Workday modules
- Support Workday account provisioning and API integrations with enterprise IT systems.
- Possess strong understanding of Workday Business Process Framework and Security architecture.
- Lead configuration and enhancement activities across Workday modules aligned to business requirements.
Incident & Service Management
- Serve as the primary escalation point for high priority incidents (P1/P2) ensuring timely resolution with minimal business disruption.
- Lead root cause analysis (RCA) activities and implement preventive and corrective actions.
- Manage incidents, problem resolution, and service requests using ITIL-aligned processes.
- Coordinate ticket management activities including mailbox-based ticket intake and tracking.
- Ensure enhancement requests are estimated, prioritized, tracked, and delivered effectively.
- Monitor enhancement consumption against allocated support hours.
Reporting & Data Management
- Support and maintain Workday reports, dashboards, and data extracts.
- Assist business users with advanced reporting, calculated fields, and data interpretation.
- Ensure accuracy and consistency of HR, Payroll, Finance, and management reporting.
- Track and publish monthly service performance metrics
Team Leadership & Knowledge Management
- Lead, mentor, and guide Workday support analysts and functional consultants.
- Review deliverables and work outputs to ensure quality and compliance with organizational standards.
- Track support KPIs and recommend service delivery improvements.
- Maintain SOPs, runbooks, support documentation, and knowledge articles.
- Promote cross-training and knowledge sharing across the support organization.
Skill Requirements
Required Skills & Experience
- 8–12+ years of experience in Workday support and implementation projects.
- Strong techno-functional expertise in Workday HCM and related modules.
- Experience supporting Workday integrations, APIs, and security framework.
- Good understanding of ITIL processes including Incident, Problem, and Change Management.
- Experience leading support teams in AMS or managed services engagements.
- Strong stakeholder communication and presentation skills.
- Experience in enhancement management, sprint planning, and operational governance.
- Ability to lead strategic discussions and provide technology recommendations.