Workday Implementation Jobs in Columbus, OH (NOW HIRING)

Our Deloitte Human Capital team helps organizations create value through people performance. We work with clients to reimagine work, the workforce, and the workplace across the enterprise and to transform their HR functions with AI and emerging technology. With the rapid pace of change in today's world, you will help clients answer questions like: How do I access, develop, and motivate my workforce? What should my AI strategy be for the HR function? Do I have the right organization and culture to enable performance? Join our team to make work better for humans and humans better at work.

Recruiting for this role ends on 06/30/2026.

Work You'll Do

As a Senior Consultant on the team, you will be responsible for:

• Leading the functional design for a Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) implementation, translating Federal client requirements into aligned Core Human Resources (HR) business processes and configuration decisions
• Serving as a Workday Core HR functional lead, owning end-to-end pre-implementation readiness and planning activities, deliverables, and milestones for the Core HR workstream
• Driving pre-implementation discovery and readiness, including current-state assessments, future-state process design, requirements validation, and functional risks/assumptions/issues/dependencies tracking
• Providing Workday functional expertise, including demonstrating Workday capabilities, advising on leading practices and tradeoffs, and supporting client decision-making
• Producing and maintaining pre-implementation work products (e.g., process maps, requirements and design documentation, configuration workbooks, data and security inputs, testing and cutover readiness inputs)
• Partnering with technical and adjacent functional leads to ensure end-to-end alignment across security, reporting, integrations, and data conversion impacts to Core HR

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our HR Strategy & Technology offering develops leading global HR strategies and implements HR technologies that drive transformation, maximize the workforce experience, and sustain HR effectiveness and value while navigating a world of disruption.

Qualifications

Required: 

• 5+ years of professional experience with Workday HCM
• 2+ years of experience with leading Workday HCM pre-implementation (discovery/design readiness), including fit-to-standard workshops, future-state process design, and functional requirements definition, with exposure to data conversion, security inputs, and UAT readiness
• 1+ years of experience with business process design and re-design
• Active Top Secret security clearance 
• Actively Workday HCM certified
• Bachelor's degree
• Ability to travel up to 20%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

Our Deloitte Human Capital team helps organizations create value through people performance. We work with clients to reimagine work, the workforce, and the workplace across the enterprise and to transform their HR functions with AI and emerging technology. With the rapid pace of change in today's world, you will help clients answer questions like: How do I access, develop, and motivate my workforce? What should my AI strategy be for the HR function? Do I have the right organization and culture to enable performance? Join our team to make work better for humans and humans better at work.

Recruiting for this role ends on 06/30/2026.

Work You'll Do

As a Senior Consultant on the team, you will be responsible for:

• Leading the functional design for a Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) implementation, translating Federal client requirements into aligned Core Human Resources (HR) business processes and configuration decisions
• Serving as a Workday Core HR functional lead, owning end-to-end pre-implementation readiness and planning activities, deliverables, and milestones for the Core HR workstream
• Driving pre-implementation discovery and readiness, including current-state assessments, future-state process design, requirements validation, and functional risks/assumptions/issues/dependencies tracking
• Providing Workday functional expertise, including demonstrating Workday capabilities, advising on leading practices and tradeoffs, and supporting client decision-making
• Producing and maintaining pre-implementation work products (e.g., process maps, requirements and design documentation, configuration workbooks, data and security inputs, testing and cutover readiness inputs)
• Partnering with technical and adjacent functional leads to ensure end-to-end alignment across security, reporting, integrations, and data conversion impacts to Core HR

A successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our HR Strategy & Technology offering develops leading global HR strategies and implements HR technologies that drive transformation, maximize the workforce experience, and sustain HR effectiveness and value while navigating a world of disruption.

Qualifications

Required: 

• 5+ years of professional experience with Workday HCM
• 2+ years of experience with leading Workday HCM pre-implementation (discovery/design readiness), including fit-to-standard workshops, future-state process design, and functional requirements definition, with exposure to data conversion, security inputs, and UAT readiness
• 1+ years of experience with business process design and re-design
• Active Top Secret security clearance 
• Actively Workday HCM certified
• Bachelor's degree
• Ability to travel up to 20%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future