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Workday Cutover Lead

Apollo ITS
Atlanta, GA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/13/2025

Title : Workday Cutover Lead

Location : Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)

Duration : 12 Months

Type : Contract

Job Description :

  • The Workday Cutover Lead will have a proven track record of implementing cloud SaaS ERP projects for large, complex initiatives.
  • The Cutover Lead will lead a large, cross-functional project team and provide an organizational view of project / program dependencies, stakeholder, and risk impacts.
  • The lead will have effective communication skills, organizational awareness, and ability to manage critical dependencies and impacts.
  • Local candidates strongly preferred. Out of state candidates will be accepted for a 100% remote work schedule.

What You Need for this Position

  • Technical Project Management experience
  • Operations Management
  • Change Management
  • Release Management
  • Project Management Tools
  • Primary Duties and Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage the NextGen Workday cutover planning and execution activities.
  • Collaborate with Program Teams, Technical teams, and implementer resources to build out a detailed project cutover schedule to include tasks for all areas (technical (reports, integration, security) and functional (HCM, Payroll, Finance and Procurement) and OCM ( Communications, Change Mgmt, Training).
  • Field questions and escalations regarding cutover activities and work with the cutover team to close open items.
  • Manage cutover tasks, risks, issues, and project timelines to assure progress towards cutover completion
  • Work with the appropriate system owners, business and technical subject-matterexperts, and workstreams to assure cutover and system remediation processes, deliverables, and milestones are developed and completed.
  • Provide comprehensive reporting of cutover activities, challenges and risks. In coordination wit project team develop risk mitigation approaches to ensure on time go live
  • Prepare and deliver metric reporting demonstrating progress against planned activities
  • Escalate items that would impact go live date
  • Lead and participate in the cutover planning, cutover plan review, capture of cutover activity timeframes / durations, mock cutover, and cutover execution activities.
  • Essential Skills

  • Prior experience as a Workday implementation program manager (must have managed multiple Workday components)
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • 10 years of IT experience
  • 5 years of Workday SaaS ERP experience
  • 10 years of prior project management experience
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Prior experience with state or other public sector clients
  • Excellent organizational skills and a leader in the change process
  • Ability to collaborate and drive execution at all levels within a business area
  • Ability to communicate in written and verbal formats to various situations and audiences
  • Expertise in documentation, presentation tools, and project management tools
  • Excellent skills in critical thinking and analysis
  • Ability to establish strong working relationships across IT, business lines and external stakeholders Group facilitation skills, negotiation and ability to influence and drive decisions
  • Possess understanding of cloud infrastructure architecture and able to clearly guide and articulate needs to successfully onboard and manage new organization
  • Required Skills

  • Prior experience as a Workday implementation program manager (must have managed multiple Workday components)
  • 5 years of Workday SaaS ERP experience
  • 10 years of prior project management experience
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