Custom Software Engineer - Workday Data Mapping & Conversions

Project Role: Custom Software Engineer

Project Role Description: Design, build and configure applications to meet business process and application requirements.

Must have skills: Workday Data Mapping & Conversions

Good to have skills: Automated Testing

Minimum experience: 7.5 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification: 15 years full time education

Summary:

Ideal candidates will have a proven track record in supporting large-scale, complex implementations, transformations, and migrations. This role is a support role. It is for turning around troubled projects requiring the ability to assess the current state, define recovery solutions, and execute recovery plans. Hands-on problem solving to stabilize delivery performance.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Supported recovering, stabilizing, and realigning projects facing significant delivery challenges. Supported delivery recovery efforts end-to-end including issue identification, impact assessment, recovery solutioning, and execution of turnaround plans.

• Experienced in delivery governance frameworks aligned with TDLC, Agile, or SAFe methodologies, ensuring strict adherence to sprint cycles, milestones, and process standards.

• PMO support for Monitoring and enhancing Delivery Experience (DEX), drove reductions in Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), and improved delivery quality through measurable KPIs.

• Gathered metrics and prepared report for Steering Committees, weekly executive connects, and status reviews to ensure transparency, alignment, and stakeholder confidence.

• Tracked and analysed key schedule, quality & financial metrics (Ex) SPI, burn rate, forecast accuracy, margin, and budget compliance. Identified cost leakages and led commercial resets and Estimate at Completion (EAC) recovery initiatives.

• Tracked delivery risks and implemented preventive or corrective actions. Ensured compliance with internal audits, InfoSec requirements, and quality gates.

• Provided hands on to address complex technical and project-level challenges across teams.

• Drove excellence through agile methodologies, quality frameworks, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Hand on Experience in at least one major enterprise platform - SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, o9 Solutions, or other supply chain platforms.

• Experience in Agile and SI delivery principles with a focus on transformation excellence, governance, and stakeholder satisfaction.

• Manage day-to-day execution, sprint coordination, issue tracking, and team-level quality management, team coaching.

• Create MPP/MSPS plan, track schedule, cost & quality. Track effort variance, rework costs, and non-compliance cost impact. Manage RAID logs, support internal compliance, and documentation.

• Mentored technical teams, and developed reusable assets, knowledge bases, and recovery playbooks. Hands experience in SDLC tools across phases.

• Support issue closure by working with leads, testers, and developers to remove delivery bottlenecks. Support day-to-day coordination with client testers, business SMEs, and platform leads for dependency resolution.

Professional & Technical Skills:Must To Have Skills: Proficiency in Workday Data Mapping & Conversions

Good to have Skill: Automated Testing

• AMS experience

• Exposure to GenAI technologies.

• Support workforce planning, readiness tracking, and onboarding quality.

Additional Information:

• The candidate should have minimum 7 - 12 years of experience in Workday Data Mapping & Conversions

• PMI, PRINCE2 or equivalent certification

• Relevant platform certifications (SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, o9, Supply Chain Platform etc.)

• A 15 years full time education is required.

• Position Open across PAN India