People Consulting-HRT WorkDay-Senior Manager

Location

Noida

Other locations

Primary Location Only

Salary

Competitive

Date

28 Oct 2026

Job description

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Requisition ID

1752257

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Service line -People Consulting Position Title: HR Transformation Technology – Senior Manager

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

About Global Delivery Services

Global Delivery Services refers to EY's worldwide network of service delivery centers. The GDS team plays an important role in EY’s strategy by ensuring effective support to EY’s growth agenda.

Our journey started in 2002 with approximately 200 people. Today we stand at 80,000+ professionals in ten locations around the world. We operate in Argentina, China, Hungary, India, Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Client service is focused on providing Consulting, Assurance, Tax, Strategy \& Transactions, and Knowledge support to our clients around the world. The teams enable account teams worldwide to provide seamless, high-quality, value-added support, helping deliver exceptional client service.

Enablement Services provides cost-effective, high-skilled, and innovative services to support EY’s global and local enablement teams. Markets, BMC, AWS, Finance and Accounting, Risk Management, Procurement, People Shared Services, IT Service Delivery and IT Global Infrastructure services, are among the services offered by Enablement Services.

Our innovation specialists serve the GDS Client Service and Enablement Services teams, along with Service Lines, Core Business Services and Sectors. The team brings the desired environment, technologies and skilled teams together for facilitation, rapid prototyping and innovative thinking. The competencies offered include analytics, digital, user experience, mobile technology, infrastructure, Microsoft technologies and open innovation.

The Opportunity

As a Workday Senior Manager, you will lead complex, global Workday and HR transformation programs that help organizations improve their HR operating models, employee experiences, technology capabilities, and workforce outcomes.

You will work with senior HR, IT, Finance, Payroll, and business executives to define HR technology strategies, establish transformation roadmaps, and deliver scalable Workday solutions. You will be accountable for engagement leadership, solution integrity, delivery quality, financial performance, stakeholder management, risk management, and value realization.

You will also play a central role in growing EY’s Workday practice by developing client relationships, leading strategic pursuits, shaping new offerings, strengthening delivery capabilities, and building high-performing teams.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Workday techno-functional transformation programs across strategy, design, implementation, deployment, stabilization, and optimization.
• Define the overall Workday solution architecture and ensure alignment across functional modules, integrations, data, security, reporting, testing, and change management.
• Advise senior HR, IT, Finance, Payroll, and business stakeholders on Workday strategy, technology roadmaps, operating models, governance, and value realization.
• Oversee complex business process, security, reporting, integration, and data-conversion designs across multiple modules, countries, and business units.
• Lead design-authority forums, review critical solution decisions, and ensure solutions are scalable, secure, standardized, and supportable.
• Provide strategic oversight for EIBs, Core Connectors, APIs, Workday Studio integrations, data migration, and third-party system interfaces.
• Direct program governance, delivery plans, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, quality controls, and executive reporting.
• Oversee testing, deployment readiness, production transition, release management, post-go-live support, and continuous improvement.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and lead the resolution of complex functional, technical, and delivery issues.
• Lead strategic pursuits, proposals, solutioning, commercial estimations, account growth, team development, and Workday practice-building initiatives.

Skills and attributes for success

• Extensive experience leading Workday-enabled HR transformation and technology programs.
• Strong understanding of Workday HCM functionality, solution architecture, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Broad knowledge of HR processes across the Hire-to-Retire lifecycle.
• Strong experience in HR process transformation, global operating models, shared services, and digital employee experience.
• Ability to advise senior executives and influence complex organizational decisions.
• Experience directing global and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Strong engagement, commercial, financial, and risk-management capabilities.
• Ability to connect HR strategy, business requirements, operating models, data, and technology.
• Strong understanding of Workday integrations, data migration, security, reporting, testing, deployment, and production-support models.
• Excellent executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities, and complex stakeholder environments.
• Strong business-development, proposal-development, and solution-shaping skills.
• Commitment to quality, collaboration, i