Role Purpose, Key Responsibilities & Duties:
The Workday Techno-Functional Lead is responsible for leading the end-to-end implementation and management of Workday HCM across Transmed: 14 countries to be rolled out and supported in addition to the localization and compliance for the various countries.
The role drives the translation of business requirements into scalable Workday setup, ensuring successful system design, configuration, integration, testing, and deployment. It plays a critical role in delivering a high-quality, future-ready HR platform aligned with Transmed's digital transformation objectives.
The role operates at the intersection of HR, IT, and implementation partners, ensuring that Workday implementation and changes are deployed on time, within scope, and delivers measurable business value.
Key Competencies & Skills:
Program & Delivery Leadership:
- Lead the full Workday implementation lifecycle: Discovery & requirements gathering, Solution design, Configuration & build, Data migration
- Testing, Go-Live & Hypercare: Define and lead SIT/UAT, Ensure test coverage, defect resolution, and business sign-off, Prepare cutover strategy and go-live plan
- Lead hypercare support and stabilization phase; Ensure smooth transition to BAU support model
- Ensure alignment between business expectations and system capabilities
- Track risks, issues, and dependencies and drive mitigation actions
Functional Leadership
- Lead design workshops with HR and Payroll stakeholders
- Translate business requirements into Workday business process frameworks (BPF)
- Oversee configuration of Core HCM (org structures, staffing models), Absence, Time Tracking, Compensation & Benefits in addition to Payroll and other HR Internal enterprise systems Integration
- Validate solution design against best practices and scalability requirements
Technical & Integration Leadership
- Support the integration management/development using EIB (Enterprise Interface Builder), Core Connectors, Workday Studio
- Ensure data migration strategy, cleansing, and validation
- Drive reporting strategy (operational & leadership dashboards)
Governance & Stakeholder Management
- Act as primary interface between Business (HR, Payroll), IT teams and Implementation partners
- Provide regular updates to senior leadership on progress, risks, and decisions required
- Ensure governance, documentation, and audit readiness
Value Realization & Transformation
- Ensure Workday implementation delivers Process simplification, Automation and efficiency and Improved employee experience
- Identify opportunities to standardize and optimize HR processes
- Leading and supporting the change management and user adoption initiatives: technical, train-the-trainer, market champion network, and communications planning
- Ensure applications and solutions development activities adhere to the highest standards of user experience, documentation, configuration runbooks, quality, security, and compliance requirements
Role Requirements
Academic Education & Professional Certifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related domain. Master in Business Administration or related field is a plus.
- 8+ years of hands-on Workday experience.
- Proven experience in at least one full Workday implementation
- Workday certifications preferred (HCM / Integrations)
Operational & Managerial Experience
- Strong implementation experience (must-have, not just support)
- Experience leading workshops, design decisions, and system configuration
- Hands-on experience with Workday integrations and data migration
- Strong project delivery discipline (Agile/Hybrid)
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional and vendor teams
- Strong issue resolution and decision-making under pressure
Technical Skills & Knowledge
- Workday HCM (Core HR, Absence, Compensation)
- Workday Integrations (EIB, Core Connectors, Studio)
- Data migration and validation techniques
- Reporting (Calculated Fields, Advanced Reports)
- Understanding of APIs, XML, XSLT
