Workday Project Manager

Corporate:
Light & Wonder’s corporate team is comprised of incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees.

Position Summary

• • The Workday Project Manager / Solution Architecture focus specializes in aligning solutions with the agreed business and/or enterprise-wide architectures, and acting as a bridge between the development team and the Business Duties & Responsibilities
  • Serve as primary PM for all Workday related projects.
  • Participate and/or lead specific projects while working in an environment where we value Knowledge, Openness and Transparency.
  • Manage the deliverables of the offshore delivery teams
  • Stay abreast of emerging trends and new functionality in areas related to the Workday product.
  • Work both independently and collaboratively with stakeholders and others across the team to define requirements and develop a robust solution.
  • Work with functional teams for discovery and design sessions, as needed.
  • Facilitate communication and information flow between business partners and project teams to refine requirements and deliver on project goals against long-term Roadmap
  • Establish and adhere to strong ADLC (Application development life-cycle practices and ensure they are followed for all projects. Introduce best practices in terms of Requirements gathering, business processing, and solution design.)
  • Partner with PC PMO to build out the Workday roadmap and provide status updates on various projects
  • Partner with vendors on their software and cloud roadmaps, upgrades, restoration of service or resolution of problems.
  • Create and maintain documentation on Functional Design Documents, and other materials.
  • Manage testing to meet business requirements
  • Maintain reporting standards and coordinate reporting requirements across multiple Business Units
  • Assist in ensuring that all development efforts stay within budget and are completed by agreed deadlines.
• Skills & Abilities

  • Strong analytical skills, problem solving and troubleshooting abilities.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication with a focus on documentation, and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment, especially with virtual geographically diverse teams.
  • Highly organized with the ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively while demonstrating a sense of urgency.

Qualifications

• • Bachelor’s degree required in Information Systems, BSEE, BSCE, BSEET, or BSCS.
  • Workday Certification in Recruitment (must be current).
  • 5+ years professional experience in business systems analysis/engineering, solution design and deployment experience.
  • 1 + years of advanced experience in Workday Functional Design and configuration development.
  • Excellent working knowledge of Core HCM, Business Process Configuration. Security Administration and Reporting
  • Good working knowledge of Core and Advanced Compensation, Benefits, Recruiting, Talent Management, Time Tracking, Absence Management,
  • Workday Phase 1 & Phase 2 implementations experience required with a good understanding of functional design and testing concepts and workday business process framework frameworks
  • Data conversion concepts and impacts on business processes.
  • Knowledge of all phases of system development lifecycle, including, new skew implementation and production support
  • Subject matter expert in the Software Development Lifecycle and operating systems for HCM
  • US and Global data privacy laws, GDPR and Sarbanes Oxley compliance.
  • JIRA, ServiceNow or similar ticketing system experience preferred.