Transformation - Workday Solution Architect
Technology Modernization – Workday Solution Architect
As a Workday Solution Architect within the Transformation Practice, you will help organizations proactively shape and implement their overall strategy and supporting initiatives. Specific to client interaction, you will play a key role in the delivery of engagements and work with chief operating officers, chief financial officers, and other senior client leaders to demonstrate your subject matter expertise as we seek to help them implement solutions in support of their broader strategy and goal of creating value.
Your day-to-day may include:
- Assist in full life cycle implementations including planning, design, & build phases
- Responsible for documenting business requirements, system design and transformational goals
- Configure applications and conduct iterative unit testing
- Help to create training materials and quick reference guides to support user adoption
- Conduct training classes to prepare end users for deployment
- Provide post-production support
- Assist with full life cycle implementations
- Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
- Other duties as assigned
You have the following technical skills, qualifications, and abilities:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Information Technology, MIS or related field required. A Master’s degree is a plus.
- 2+ years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level.
- Minimum of 2 full life cycle implementations of Workday.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Knowledge of software development lifecycles, key metrics and reports.
- Experience with ERP Application Integration & back-end data connectivity applications.
- Experience installing/configuring/implementing Workday Applications.
- Knowledge of Workday ERP (Financials, SCM, etc.)
- Proven ability delivering complex and time sensitive projects.
- Strong leadership skills: able to conduct meetings and write technically oriented documents
- Able to work with clients to understand current state processes and define future state processes based on business objectives
- Ability to work additional hours as needed
- Ability to travel to various client sites as needed on short notice
- Travel percentage: up to 40%
The base salary range for this position is between $169,280 and $226,412. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate