Senior Workday Techno-Functional Consultant

Overview

Job Title: Senior Workday Techno-Functional Consultant /Senior Workday HCM Transformation Consultant

Experience: 12–15 years

HCLTech is seeking a Senior Techno-Functional Workday HCM Consultant to lead HR modernization and optimization initiatives. The role blends strong understanding of HR operating models and Hire-to-Retire processes with Workday functional leadership to enhance employee experience, standardize processes, simplify HR operations, and strengthen workforce insights.

The position requires end-to-end ownership of the HR application portfolio
, including leading process and application standardization, harmonization, and rationalization efforts and defining optimization recommendations aligned to business needs. It also includes guiding team execution, driving tactical and strategic reporting
, and delivering reporting standardization and harmonization across HR. A key accountability is advising strategies to reduce and eliminate technical debt across the Workday environment and integrated HR systems.

The consultant will partner with HR leadership, COEs, Shared Services, and HRIT to facilitate stakeholder workshops, develop transformation and solution artifacts, and translate business needs into an actionable Workday roadmap and configuration-ready functional designs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Workday HCM Delivery: Own end-to-end Workday implementations and optimizations—discovery, fit-gap, solution design, configuration oversight, testing, cutover, and hypercare.
• Techno-Functional Solution Design: Translate Hire-to-Retire needs into Workday Business Processes, security roles, org structures, data model, and configuration-ready designs.
• Process Standardization & Controls: Drive standardization across HR processes, approvals, and data definitions; establish governance and release/change impact management.
• Integrations & HR Tech Ecosystem: Define integration requirements and partner with technical teams on interfaces across payroll, benefits, identity, and downstream systems.
• Workday Reporting & Insights: Define reporting strategy, dashboards, and workforce metrics using Workday reporting/analytics (plus Power BI/Tableau/Visier where applicable).
• Workday AI & Automation Enablement: Identify and implement AI/automation use cases within Workday (e.g., intelligent insights, next-best actions, anomaly/quality signals, automated workflows) to improve EX, efficiency, and decision-making.
• Stakeholder Leadership: Facilitate workshops and decision forums with HR leadership, CoEs, Shared Services, and HRIT; drive crisp decisions and executive readouts.
• Team & Delivery Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams (functional, integrations, reporting, change) and mentor consultants to ensure high-quality outcomes.
• Pre-sales Support (Selective): Support solutioning, estimations, and RFP inputs for Workday HCM opportunities.

Required Expertise:

• 12–15 years in HR transformation/HCM consulting with strong Workday HCM techno-functional experience
• Led Workday implementations/enhancements end-to-end: fit-gap, solution design, configuration oversight, testing, cutover, and hypercare.
• Strong Hire-to-Retire knowledge and ability to translate HR needs into Workday BPs, security, and reporting
  .
• Working knowledge of HR compliance and Shared Services/CoE/HRBP operating models.
• Exposure to integrations and people analytics (Workday reporting + Power BI/Tableau/Visier).
• Tier-1/Big 4 consulting experience preferred.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Information Systems, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• Workday certification(s) preferred (e.g., HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Talent/Performance, Reporting).
• Familiarity with HR analytics and visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Visier, and/or Workday reporting/Prism (if applicable).