Workday Data Conversion / Data Migration Specialist

This is a remote position.

Workday Data Conversion / Data Migration Specialist

Job Details

• Employment Type: Contract
• Work Mode: Remote
• Location: Offshore
• Total Experience Required: 4 to 8 years
• Relevant Experience Required: 4+ years of dedicated experience executing data conversions and migrations into Workday environments
• Mandatory Certification: Workday Certified Core HCM along with demonstrable advanced data migration utilities training records

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Workday Data Conversion / Data Migration Specialist to lead the technical extraction, mapping, transformation, and load sequences of legacy records into our Workday platform. The ideal candidate will build automated ETL scripts, manage high-volume data validation loops, and orchestrate iterative loading sweeps to ensure data integrity during enterprise deployments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize automated ETL pipelines to extract, clean, and transform legacy HR, payroll, and financial data into Workday-compatible file configurations.
• Map intricate source database components directly into standard Workday object structures, ensuring absolute alignment with target data definitions and object hierarchies.
• Execute high-volume multi-object staging routines utilizing standard deployment loading utilities, advanced file processing automation, and enterprise interface builders (EIBs).
• Build custom validation tracking logs, scripting automated record-count reconciliations and delta checks to pinpoint alignment errors or missing data points before final sign-off.
• Orchestrate iterative trial data conversions (Gold, Silver, Bronze builds) inside sandbox testing tenants to isolate process bottlenecks and tune implementation runbooks.
• Enforce data privacy guidelines, applying custom masking and security routines to scramble personally identifiable information (PII) during extraction cycles.
• Lead cutover data reconciliation phases, troubleshooting sequence failures, identifying invalid reference fields, and collaborating with module teams to fix formatting defects during go-live drops.

Requirements

• 4 to 8 years of core database engineering or enterprise data migration experience, with 4+ dedicated years actively designing and deploying conversion scripts explicitly for the Workday cloud framework.
• Strong technical mastery of advanced data transformation platforms, SQL database systems, XML formatting, and complex macro structures.
• Deep structural understanding of legacy ERP architectures, employee master schemas, data cleansing methodologies, and the sequence of dependencies during enterprise deployments.
• Mandatory certification: Workday Certified Core Human Capital Management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Workday Certified Integration Studio or Workday Certified Financials Core certification.
• Prior experience managing multi-stream data cutovers across global, multi-region enterprise deployments under highly constrained operational windows.