Sr Data Conversion Consultant - Higher Education

As a Senior Data Conversion Consultant, you will play a key role in delivering successful Workday Student deployments by leading data conversion activities across the full project lifecycle. You will partner with customers, project managers, functional consultants, and technical teams to define the conversion approach, understand legacy student data, support data mapping and transformation, and load accurate, high-quality data into Workday Student.

This role focuses on complex Student domain data, including academic structures, student records, admissions, curriculum, programs of study, enrollment, academic history, and student financials. You will help customers understand Workday Student data requirements, assess data readiness, identify quality risks, resolve conversion challenges, and support validation and reconciliation through mock loads, testing, cutover, and production deployment.

Success in this role requires strong technical problem-solving skills, practical data conversion experience, and the ability to explain complex data topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You will be expected to manage issues proactively, communicate risks and recommendations, and drive work to completion. As a senior consultant, you may also contribute to delivery best practices, reusable assets, knowledge sharing, and mentoring to support high-quality customer outcomes.

We are looking for hardworking, creative consultants who are passionate about what they do! You should excel at explaining complex concepts in simple terms and understanding customer procedures. You are curious about how things work and love solving puzzles.

You should be an innovative self-starter who can drive ideas from concept through implementation.

Basic Qualifications

6+ years of data migration, integration development, report building, or software development, OR

6+ years of experience with technical consulting, requirements gathering, or solution design, OR

6+ years of Human Resource, Payroll, Financials, Supply Chain, or Student domain experience

Other Qualifications

Experience with Workday Student or higher education student information systems is strongly preferred.

Experience in leading a Data Conversion workstream on a software implementation project.

Proficiency with data tooling such as ETL tools, SQL/MySQL, XML, Microsoft Excel, stored procedures, or similar technologies.

Experience leading customer data requirements sessions or technical workshops.

Participation in a minimum of 1 full life cycle software implementation

Understanding of the complete software implementation lifecycle, including data requirements gathering, data mapping, data transformation, data migration, data validation, data reconciliation, testing, cutover, and move to production.

Experience using GitHub, Python, and/or Ruby

Prior experience with Workday data conversion technologies such as iLoad, EIB, Advanced Load

Experience with AI products, prompt engineering and agent development

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role). This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote "home office" roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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