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We partner with business stakeholders to develop, implement, maintain, and improve Workday solutions that meet evolving business needs. \nOur team works in an Agile environment, collaborating across functions to tackle sophisticated problems, support global operations, and deliver practical, scalable solutions.\nYour Impact\nAs a Workday Solution Consultant, you will provide functional expertise and strategic guidance to translate complex business needs into scalable, balanced Workday solutions. You will serve as a trusted advisor across multiple product areas, partnering with business and technology stakeholders to optimize enterprise standards. Your success will be measured by your ability to own the build, configuration, and deployment of sophisticated initiatives that improve efficiency and maintainability across the global Workday environment.\nKey Responsibilities:\nLead requirements gathering, configuration, testing, and deployment for complex Workday initiatives, ensuring alignment with standard methodologies.\nProvide strategic guidance across multiple product areas, including Core Compensation, Advanced Compensation, Recruiting, and HCM.\nPartner with HR, Payroll, and Talent teams to find opportunities for automation and improve overall system efficiency.\nManage Workday business processes, security, reporting, calculated fields, and condition rules.\nAssess downstream impacts and dependencies associated with proposed changes to the Workday environment.\nLead root-cause analysis and resolve complex production issues in collaboration with internal teams and third-party partners.\nSupport the evaluation and implementation of Workday AI and other emerging capabilities.\nMentorship: Provide guidance and professional development to other members of the Workday Solutions team.\nMinimum Qualifications\n6+ years of tactical Workday experience in consulting, solution consulting, or solution architecture role\nDemonstrable experience configuring Workday business processes, security, reporting, calculated fields, and condition rules.\nConsistent track record of designing and implementing sophisticated Workday solutions across multiple product areas (e.g., HCM, Recruiting, or Compensation).\nExperience leading requirements gathering, testing, and deployment phases for enterprise-level Workday initiatives.\nExperience performing root-cause analysis and resolving complex production issues within a global Workday environment.\nPreferred Qualifications\nCertification: Workday certification in one or more functional areas.\nBreadth of Knowledge: Experience across a wide array of Workday products including Core and Advanced Compensation.\nAI Implementation: Experience evaluating or implementing Workday AI and emerging capabilities.\nStakeholder Management: Good communication and collaborator management skills for partnering across HR, Payroll, and IT teams.\nMentorship: Experience providing guidance and mentorship to other Workday team members\nWhy Cisco?\nAt Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.\nFueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nMessage to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:\nThe starting salary range posted for this position is $111,100.00 to $147,500.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.\nU.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.\nU.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:\n10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees\n\n1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco\n\nNon-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees\n\nExempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)\n\n80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next\n\nAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members\n\nOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer\n\nFor non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.\nEmployees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:\n.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;\n\n1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;\n\n1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and\n\nOnce performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.\n\nFor non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. 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