About this role
The Workday People Experience (PEX) Principal Consultant is a senior functional consultant responsible for leading the design, configuration, and delivery of Workday People Experience solutions. Acting as a trusted advisor, this individual helps organisations create personalised, engaging, and intuitive employee experiences across the workforce lifecycle. The Principal Consultant combines deep PEX expertise with delivery leadership, pre-sales support, and mentoring responsibilities. They work closely with clients to design experiences that drive user adoption, employee engagement, productivity, and self-service through capabilities such as Workday Today, Journeys, Help, and other employee experience functionality.
Responsibilities:
• Serve as a Workday People Experience (PEX) subject matter expert, providing guidance on employee experience strategy and Workday best practices. • Lead client workshops and design sessions to define personalised employee experiences aligned to business objectives. • Design and configure Workday PEX solutions, including Workday Today, Journeys, Help, and related employee experience capabilities. • Advise clients on improving employee engagement, user adoption, productivity, and self-service experiences. • Lead PEX workstreams on medium to large Workday implementations, managing solution decisions, risks, and dependencies. • Partner with HCM, Talent, Learning, Recruiting, Change Management, Reporting, Security, and Integrations teams to deliver cohesive employee experiences. • Support testing, deployment, cutover, and post-go-live transition activities. • Provide guidance on persona-based experiences, employee journeys, communications, and critical moments that span the employee lifecycle. • Mentor consultants and analysts, providing coaching, quality reviews, and functional leadership. • Support business development activities including solutioning, estimations, proposals, demonstrations, and customer presentations. • Contribute to practice development through internal training, asset creation, methodology enhancement, and knowledge sharing. • Maintain expertise in Workday PEX functionality, employee experience trends, AI-driven experiences, and new product innovations.
Skills & Requirements
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. • Active Workday People Experience (PEX) Certification preferred. • 5+ years of Workday implementation experience. • Experience leading Workday PEX, HCM, Talent, Learning, or Employee Experience workstreams on end-to-end implementations. • Strong understanding of employee experience, workforce engagement, self-service, onboarding, career development, and talent processes. • Experience with Workday Today, Journeys, Help, and related employee experience capabilities. • Experience gathering requirements, facilitating workshops, solution design, configuration, testing, and deployment. • Experience supporting pre-sales activities including estimations, proposals, and solution presentations. • Strong consulting, stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills. • Ability to mentor team members and provide functional leadership across projects. • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment. • Eligible for SC Clearance – you must have been a UK resident for the last five years and be legally entitled to work in the UK. • Minimal travel required, but must be willing to travel on-site as needed.
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Why choose Cognizant:
• Entrepreneurial environment that welcomes your ideas • Opportunity to do great work • Outreach programs that support communities and tap into your volunteer spirit • Learning opportunities to help current needs and advancement • Global operations, with opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific • An abundance of Affinity groups to meet your needs
Cognizant Core Values:
• Work as One: We think beyond roles, relying on each other’s strengths to win as a team. • Raise the Bar: We always aim for excellence in how we work and what we deliver. • Dare to Innovate: We push boundaries and take chances to reimagine what’s possible. • Do the Right Thing: We all lead with integrity and always make the ethical choice. • Own It: We own the outcomes for our company, colleagues, and community.