This person works closely with Engagement Managers, Project Managers, Integration Architects, Managing Consultants, and leads, and acts as a liaison between the Consulting team and executive management. This person will assist in identifying business needs, staffing projects, defining integration strategy, and ensuring that the work/life balance of our consultants is monitored and adjusted appropriately.
Key Responsibilities
Project Oversight:
- Oversight responsibility for projects and integration delivery across the practice.
- Provide leadership and oversight for enterprise integration design, architecture, and delivery across Workday HCM, Payroll, Finance, and third-party systems.
- Guide integration strategy including API-based, event-driven, file-based, and middleware-enabled integration patterns.
- Review and approve integration solution designs, technical approaches, and estimates, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, data governance, and scalability requirements.
- Oversee and assist Engagement Managers and team members when needed to identify project needs, reduce risk, and develop solutions and strategies.
- Lead and mentor Workday Integration Consultants, Managing Consultants, and Architects across concurrent projects.
- Drive best practices for Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, Cloud Connect, Web Services, REST APIs, and Extend integrations.
- Establish integration standards, reusable assets, accelerators, and delivery methodologies.
- Partner with client enterprise architects and technical stakeholders to develop integration roadmaps and strategies.
- Support the RFP response and pursuit process for Consulting work.
- Lead integration solutioning during pursuits, including discovery workshops, architecture definition, integration inventories, effort estimation, and proposal development.
- Present integration strategies and technical approaches during client presentations and orals.
- Assist in the recruitment, development, and management of a diverse, remote team of consultants supporting Workday applications.
- Promote a team-oriented, challenging, and innovative work environment.
- Lead and manage Senior Managers and/or Managing Consultants to ensure adherence to the activities, processes, and procedures outlined in Workday and the Cynergy Implementation Methodology.
- Drive team and individuals to achieve high customer satisfaction levels.
- Establish immediate credibility with clients and within the company; build consensus and achieve goals through influence.
- Build trust-based relationships and identify and foster business development opportunities.
- Perform the role of mentor and coach.
- Analyze team skills and provide for cross-training to maintain the team’s ability to staff projects appropriately.
- Advise the management team on team members’ level of expertise and availability.
- Establish direct reports’ goals and objectives during the bi-annual review process.
- Direct the collection of performance feedback from customers and engagement/project managers on a quarterly basis or upon completion of a project for your entire team.
- Direct the collection of all internal contributions for team members, assuring data is received by HR on a quarterly basis.
- Drive the bi-annual performance review process for the Consulting team.
- 8+ years of enterprise application integration and consulting experience, including 5+ years leading Workday integration implementations.
- Demonstrated experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale Workday integrations across multiple systems and platforms using API, middleware, event-driven, and file-based integration patterns.
- Demonstrated experience integrating Workday with ERP, payroll, recruitment, identity management, learning, finance, and reporting platforms.
- Experience with middleware and integration platforms such as Boomi, MuleSoft, Azure Integration Services, Workato, SnapLogic, or similar technologies is preferred.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, SOAP services, event-driven architecture, SFTP, data transformation, and enterprise integration patterns.
- Proven experience leading distributed integration teams and managing complex integration delivery portfolios.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Experience estimating and presenting solutions to prospects during sales engagements.
- Required characteristics: fast learner, detail oriented, decisive, and enjoys fast-paced work environments; must work well within and across teams to get things accomplished.
- Workday Integration and Workday Studio certifications preferred; enterprise integration platform certifications desirable.
- Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas
- Opportunity to do great work
- Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit
- Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement
- Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
- An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs
- Work as One: We think beyond roles, relying on each other’s strengths to win as a team.
- Raise the Bar: We always aim for excellence in how we work and what we deliver.
- Dare to Innovate: We push boundaries and take chances to reimagine what’s possible.
- Do the Right Thing: We all lead with integrity and always make the ethical choice.
- Own It: We own the outcomes for our company, colleagues, and community.
