Lead Workday data conversion and migration activities, including ETL pipeline development, source-to-target mapping, data transformation, high-volume loading, validation, reconciliation, and cutover support. Build automated scripts and tracking logs, perform iterative sandbox conversions, protect personally identifiable information through masking, and troubleshoot deployment defects. Collaborate with Workday module teams to ensure accurate legacy HR, payroll, and financial data migration during enterprise implementations.
This is a remote position.
Workday Data Conversion / Data Migration Specialist
Job Details
- Employment Type: Contract
- Work Mode: Remote
- Location: Offshore
- Total Experience Required: 4 to 8 years
- Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of dedicated experience executing data conversions and migrations into Workday environments
- Mandatory Certification: Workday Certified Core HCM along with demonstrable advanced data migration utilities training records
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Workday Data Conversion / Data Migration Specialist to lead the technical extraction, mapping, transformation, and load sequences of legacy records into our Workday platform. The ideal candidate will build automated ETL scripts, manage high-volume data validation loops, and orchestrate iterative loading sweeps to ensure data integrity during enterprise deployments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize automated ETL pipelines to extract, clean, and transform legacy HR, payroll, and financial data into Workday-compatible file configurations.
- Map intricate source database components directly into standard Workday object structures, ensuring absolute alignment with target data definitions and object hierarchies.
- Execute high-volume multi-object staging routines utilizing standard deployment loading utilities, advanced file processing automation, and enterprise interface builders (EIBs).
- Build custom validation tracking logs, scripting automated record-count reconciliations and delta checks to pinpoint alignment errors or missing data points before final sign-off.
- Orchestrate iterative trial data conversions (Gold, Silver, Bronze builds) inside sandbox testing tenants to isolate process bottlenecks and tune implementation runbooks.
- Enforce data privacy guidelines, applying custom masking and security routines to scramble personally identifiable information (PII) during extraction cycles.
- Lead cutover data reconciliation phases, troubleshooting sequence failures, identifying invalid reference fields, and collaborating with module teams to fix formatting defects during go-live drops.
Requirements
- 4 to 8 years of core database engineering or enterprise data migration experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively designing and deploying conversion scripts explicitly for the Workday cloud framework.
- Strong technical mastery of advanced data transformation platforms, SQL database systems, XML formatting, and complex macro structures.
- Deep structural understanding of legacy ERP architectures, employee master schemas, data cleansing methodologies, and the sequence of dependencies during enterprise deployments.
- Mandatory certification: Workday Certified Core Human Capital Management.
Preferred Qualifications
- Workday Certified Integration Studio or Workday Certified Financials Core certification.
- Prior experience managing multi-stream data cutovers across global, multi-region enterprise deployments under highly constrained operational windows.
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