Workday HCM Lead - Core HR, Compensation, and Recruiting

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 January 31, 2026.

Work You'll Do

As a Senior Consultant on our Human Capital team, you will:

• Serve as the functional area lead responsible for design, configuration, and delivery of Workday Core HR, Compensation, and Recruiting functional areas for higher education and/or government clients
• Provide functional knowledge of Workday, demonstrate software features to clients, document requirements and design decisions, provide knowledge transfer to the client team, configure the software, and support testing and rollout
• Design and execute detailed cutover plans, coordinating technical and business readiness for go-live
• Lead and mentor a team composed of internal staff, business users, and third-party integrators
• Engage regularly with technical, functional, and business stakeholders to communicate progress, risks, and action plans
  
  

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 experience with Workday HCM implementations
• 1 year of experience leading and coordinating Workday Core HR, Compensation, and/or Recruiting implementations
• Ability to obtain and maintain the required Workday certification(s)
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Bachelor's degree
  
  

Preferred:

• Actively Workday HCM Certified in HCM Core and Compensation
• Prior experience supporting Workday implementations for a higher education client
• Prior management consulting experience
  
  

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $108,000 to $198,000.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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