Workday Hcm Functional Lead - Top Secret Cleared

This role focuses on implementing Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) for a federal client, involving functional design, business process configuration, and readiness planning. While the team's broader goals include leveraging AI and emerging technology for HR transformation, this specific role is centered on Workday HCM functional expertise and implementation, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the functional design for a Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) implementation, translating Federal client requirements into aligned Core Human Resources (HR) business processes and configuration decisions
  2. Serve as a Workday Core HR functional lead, owning end-to-end pre-implementation readiness and planning activities, deliverables, and milestones for the Core HR workstream
  3. Drive pre-implementation discovery and readiness, including current-state assessments, future-state process design, requirements validation, and functional risks/assumptions/issues/dependencies tracking
  4. Provide Workday functional expertise, including demonstrating Workday capabilities, advising on leading practices and tradeoffs, and supporting client decision-making
  5. Produce and maintain pre-implementation work products (e.g., process maps, requirements and design documentation, configuration workbooks, data and security inputs, testing and cutover readiness inputs)

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of professional experience with Workday HCM
  • 2+ years of experience with leading Workday HCM pre-implementation (discovery/design readiness), including fit-to-standard workshops, future-state process design, and functional requirements definition, with exposure to data conversion, security inputs, and UAT readiness
  • 1+ years of experience with business process design and re-design
  • Active Top Secret security clearance
  • Actively Workday HCM certified
  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Ability to travel up to 20%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employment authorization

What the JD emphasized

  • Active Top Secret security clearance