Senior Workday Benefits Consultant

Job Description:

• The Planning, Governance, and Innovation department in Technology Services of the Division of Management propose to engage a Contractor to provide support for Workday.
• The Contractor will deliver expertise in Benefits within Workday.
• The Contractor will be expected to support the planning, implementation, configuration, design, deployment, and testing of Workday Feature Releases, which occur twice annually.
• In addition, the resource will also help support operational tasks including providing backlog support and assistance with critical operational issues as needed.

Requirements:

• The candidate shall possess the knowledge and skills set forth in the Technical Services Client, Section 3.20.7.1.
• In addition, the candidate shall have demonstrated experience in the following:
• Hands on experience with Workday configurations
• At least 7 Years’ experience in the following: implementing and configure Workday solutions, designing, configuring, testing, and deploying business requirements across multiple Workday module(s)
• At least 7 years of experience with assessing, implementing, and testing Workday Feature
• Releases, enhancements, updates
• Possess clear, concise, and effective verbal and written communication for test and change related documentation
• Work independently and meet deadlines for assigned tasks
• Simultaneously works on several complex assignments, some requiring collaboration with external groups
• Possess strong analytical and research skills
• At least 7 years of enterprise resource planning (ERP), Workday HCM upgrade experience.
• 7 years of industry knowledge in Benefits Administration

Responsibilities:

• Understand the Board’s ERP architecture and how Workday integrates within the system
• Assist with planning and executing regression testing for each Workday Feature Release
• Assist as needed with Workday scrum teams
• Support peer reviews on changes made by developers
• Understand operational requirements and assist with providing support as needed with design, build, and test.
• Provide insight to your functional area from your product and industry knowledge
• Review implementation of defined processes for Workday, record findings and make recommendations for changes to those processes, as needed.
• Review the operational defects or errors and provide scrum team support for remediation
• Support transition to automated testing solution once identified
• Contractor shall deliver, but not limited to, the following:
• Thoroughly assess all existing Workday configuration and artifacts. Document findings and recommendations to scrum and QA team
• Provide recommendations, develop action plans, and help implement capabilities to improve Workday Feature Release management
• Provide assessment and impact analysis of Workday feature releases relevant to Board’s configuration
• Support for operational issues and enhancements to Workday