Workday Data Migration Consultant
Queen Square Recruitment Ltd · Reading, England ·
Last confirmed by our partners on 23 Oct 2026.
New long term contract for the role of Workday Data Migration Consultant
Location:Reading / Dublin, UK (Hybrid-3 days onsite)
Contract Duration: 12 Months
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
The Role
We are seeking experienced Workday Data Migration Consultants to support a strategic customer engagement involving the migration of employee and payroll-related data from Workday to a new payroll platform. The ideal candidates will possess strong functional knowledge of Workday processes along with hands-on experience in data migration, data validation, and data transformation activities.
This is an urgent requirement supporting a time-sensitive customer project, and the selected resources will play a key role in ensuring a seamless transition with minimal business disruption.
Your Profile
Essential skills/experience:
- Proven experience (8+) working experience in Workday Data Migration and Workday Integration exposure.
- Appropriate degree or relevant professional qualifications.
- Experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches.
- Strong experience working with Workday HCM and related business processes.
- Proven experience in data migration projects, preferably involving HR and payroll systems.
- Experience with data extraction, transformation, cleansing, validation, and reconciliation.
- Understanding of employee, organizational, payroll, and workforce data structures.
- Ability to analyze complex data sets and troubleshoot migration issues.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced project environment.
- Experience migrating data from Workday to payroll platforms or other HCM solutions.
- Knowledge of payroll processes and payroll data structures.
- Experience with Workday reporting, EIBs, integrations, or data conversion tools.
- Workday certification is an added advantage.
- Workday Learning implementation and architecture.
- HR, Learning and Talent technology ecosystems.
- Identity and Access Management (SSO, MFA, Entra ID, SailPoint).
- Retail workforce and frontline colleague technology.
- Enterprise integration architecture and API-led design.
- Blueprint development and target-state architecture definition
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