Sr Data Conversion Consultant in Melbourne

Your work days are brighter here. We’re obsessed with making hard work pay off, for our people, our customers, and the world around us. As a Fortune 500 company and a leading AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, we’re shaping the future of work so teams can reach their potential and focus on what matters most. Our culture is rooted in integrity, empathy, and shared enthusiasm. We look for curious minds and courageous collaborators who bring sun-drenched optimism and drive.

About the Team: We place great value on career growth, learning and collaboration. Employees are our #1 value! We are an agile organisation, constantly looking for ways to improve with a focus on the value we deliver to our customers. We work closely with people to acquire fast feedback and achieve the right outcomes.

A Senior Technical Consultant is a member of Workday’s Global Professional Services organisation dedicated to the implementation of our cloud-based software within the APAC Technical Services Organisation. We help customers make the most of the Workday platform! The APAC Technical Services team is responsible for the Data Conversion, Integration, and Extend workstreams on Workday implementation projects. As a diverse group driven by a passion for the success of our customers, we provide leadership and technical expertise to efficiently guide customers through their deployments.

About the Role: As a Senior Data Conversion Consultant, you will play a key role in delivering successful Workday Student deployments by leading data conversion activities across the full project lifecycle. You will partner with customers, project managers, functional consultants, and technical teams to define the conversion approach, understand legacy student data, support data mapping and transformation, and load accurate, high-quality data into Workday Student. This role focuses on complex Student domain data, including academic structures, student records, admissions, curriculum, programs of study, enrollment, academic history, and student financials.

You will help customers understand Workday Student data requirements, assess data readiness, identify quality risks, resolve conversion challenges, and support validation and reconciliation through mock loads, testing, cutover, and production deployment. Success in this role requires strong technical problem-solving skills, practical data conversion experience, and the ability to explain complex data topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You will be expected to manage issues proactively, communicate risks and recommendations, and drive work to completion.

As a senior consultant, you may also contribute to delivery best practices, reusable assets, knowledge sharing, and mentoring to support high-quality customer outcomes.

About You: We are looking for hardworking, creative consultants who are passionate about what they do! You should excel at explaining complex concepts in simple terms and understanding customer procedures. You are curious about how things work and love solving puzzles. You should be an innovative self-starter who can drive ideas from concept through implementation.

Basic Qualifications:

• 6+ years of data migration, integration development, report building, or software development, OR
• 6+ years of experience with technical consulting, requirements gathering, or solution design, OR
• 6+ years of Human Resource, Payroll, Financials, Supply Chain, or Student domain experience.

Other Qualifications:

• Experience with Workday Student or higher education student information systems is strongly preferred.
• Experience in leading a Data Conversion workstream on a software implementation project.
• Proficiency with data tooling such as ETL tools, SQL/MySQL, XML, Microsoft Excel, stored procedures, or similar technologies.
• Experience leading customer data requirements sessions or technical workshops.
• Participation in a minimum of 1 full life cycle software implementation.
• Understanding of the complete software implementation lifecycle, including data requirements gathering, data mapping, data transformation, data migration, data validation, data reconciliation, testing, cutover, and move to production.
• Experience using GitHub, Python, and/or Ruby.
• Prior experience with Workday data conversion technologies such as iLoad, EIB, Advanced Load.
• Experience with AI products, prompt engineering and agent development.

Our Approach to Flexible Work: With Flex Work, we’re combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways, so rather than a number of required days in-office each week, we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers, prospects, and partners (depending on role).

This means you'll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business, team, and personal needs, while being intentional to make the most of time spent together.