Workday HCM Functional Lead - Top Secret Cleared

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 April 30, 2026.

Work You'll Do

As a Workday HCM Functional Lead on our Human Capital team for our Federal client, you will:

• Lead the functional design for a Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) implementation, translating Federal client requirements into aligned Core Human Resources (HR) business processes and configuration decisions
• Serve as a Workday Core HR functional lead, owning end-to-end pre-implementation readiness and planning activities, deliverables, and milestones for the Core HR workstream
• Drive pre-implementation discovery and readiness, including current-state assessments, future-state process design, requirements validation, and functional risks/assumptions/issues/dependencies tracking
• Provide Workday functional expertise, including demonstrating Workday capabilities, advising on leading practices and tradeoffs, and supporting client decision-making
• Produce and maintain pre-implementation work products (e.g., process maps, requirements and design documentation, configuration workbooks, data and security inputs, testing and cutover readiness inputs)
• Partner with technical and adjacent functional leads to ensure end-to-end alignment across security, reporting, integrations, and data conversion impacts to Core HR

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 professional experience with Workday HCM
• 2+ years of experience with leading Workday HCM pre-implementation (discovery/design readiness), including fit-to-standard workshops, future-state process design, and functional requirements definition, with exposure to data conversion, security inputs, and UAT readiness
• 1+ years of experience with business process design and re-design
• Active Top Secret security clearance
• Actively Workday HCM certified
• Bachelor's degree
• Ability to travel up to 20%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

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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